{"id":1540,"date":"2026-10-28T10:06:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2026-10-28T10:06:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:06:27","slug":"sarah-snook-to-star-in-the-birds-limited-series-at-hbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Snook to star in &#8216;The Birds&#8217; limited series at HBO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-10-27\/E_TheBirds_102726.png\" alt><figcaption>A photo of Sarah Snook. (Alex Vaughan) | The poster for the film &#8216;The Birds.&#8217; (Universal Pictures)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sarah Snook is taking on a new series inspired by one of Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s classic films.<\/p>\n<p>The actress will star in a limited series adaptation of\u00a0<em>The Birds<\/em>, ABC Audio has confirmed. The upcoming series is in pilot development at HBO. It will be inspired by both Hitchcock&#8217;s film and the Daphne du Maurier novella.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Escaping a bitter custody battle, Myra Massey (Snook) returns home with her young daughter, secretly probing a childhood friend&#8217;s suspicious disappearance. With a killer on the loose and personal threats mounting, Myra fights to protect her daughter against a terrifying new menace: vicious, deadly bird attacks inexplicably tied to the crime,&#8221; according to the show&#8217;s official description.<\/p>\n<p>This high-profile project brings many HBO creatives together. Snook is known for her role as Shiv Roy in HBO&#8217;s <em>Succession<\/em>. Tom Spezialy, who executive produced both <em>Watchmen<\/em> and <em>The Leftovers<\/em> for the network, is writing the pilot and serving as an executive producer. David Heyman also executive produces the show. He is currently executive producing the network&#8217;s <em>Harry Potter<\/em> series.<\/p>\n<p>Universal Global Television, which is a division of Universal Studio Group, serves as a co-studio alongside HBO on the project. Its sibling movie studio Universal Pictures produced the 1963 Hitchcock film and owns the rights to it along with the du Maurier estate.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photo of Sarah Snook. (Alex Vaughan) | The poster for the film &#8216;The Birds.&#8217; (Universal Pictures) Sarah Snook is taking on a new series inspired by one of Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s classic films. The actress will star in a limited series adaptation of\u00a0The Birds, ABC Audio has confirmed. The upcoming series is in pilot development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}