#FIRSTLOOK: NEW CRAVE ORIGINAL SERIES “NESTING” IN PRODUCTION

Principal photography is underway in Toronto on the short-form Crave Original series NESTING, created by Rosa Labordé (The Spencer Sisters, Sensitive Skin) and Anna Hardwick (Mrs. America, Murdoch Mysteries). The series will comprise of eight eight-minute episodes directed by Emmy award-winning Allana Harkin (Full Frontal with Samantha Bee). Key cast include the creators Hardwick and Labordé, as well as Salvatore Antonio (Schitt’s Creek, Mary Kills People), Samer Salem (Yellowjackets, The Expanse), Ryan Allen (Titans, Five Days at Memorial), Paul Popowich (Spencer Sisters), Lisa Berry (Slasher, Supernatural), Carlos Gonzalez-Vio (The Hot Zone), Nicola Correia-Damude (The Boys, Shadowhunters), Rachel Wilson (The Hardy Boys), Alex Castillo (Rabbit Hole), and Mike Shara (Ride).

Anna and Rosa — loosely inspired by the series creators — are unlikely best friends for whom the romantic comedy dream hasn’t panned out — no house, no partner, no baby — who try to get knocked-up at the same time so they can parent together in a new version of family. As they clumsily and comically search for a baby daddy to fertilize their drying-up eggs, the women find their feelings changing from platonic to romantic, turning everything they believed about sexuality and ‘happily ever after’ upside down. Nesting is an unflinchingly hilarious series about friendship, fertility, the housing crisis, and love.

“Nine years ago, at a friend’s engagement party, we were commiserating over our disastrous dating lives and wondering if we’d ever find our person and have a family. Our mutual rumination was kinda wrecking the party so we hatched a plan: if we were in the same place in a few years we’d move in and have a baby together. We agreed it was an amazing idea…for a show. And that’s how Nesting was born.” – Rosa Labordé & Anna Hardwick

NESTING is produced by Project Undertow Inc.; Tara Ellis (Hey Lady!) and Michael Kessler (Hannibal) are also producers. Labordé and Hardwick both serve as co-creators, co-writers, co-stars and executive producers on the series; with Labordé as showrunner. Harkin is also executive producer along with Ellis, Kessler, Hardwick and Labordé.