It’s a bizarre vision: an American remake of the very, very British television series, Peep Show. Yet it’s one that is materialising, with news that Minnie Driver and Amandla Jahava have been cast as the leads in the FX show, a half-hour comedy pilot written and produced by Atlanta and What We Do In The Shadows executive producer Stefani Robinson. Robinson will also serve as showrunner, with fellow What We Do In The Shadows alum Yana Gorskaya on board to direct. The original’s co-creators, Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, will act as executive producers.

Inspired by the UK series starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, FX’s Peep Show follows the relationship between a long-suffering assistant (Jahava) and her boss (Driver), an emotionally unstable tech entrepreneur. It will use the same narrative format as the original, which showed events through the eyes of its two leads and communicated their thoughts with voiceovers.

This will mark the fifth attempt to remake Peep Show in the States. In 2005, Fox cast Johnny Galecki in the lead of a pilot that wasn’t picked up; then, Spike TV developed another in 2008, set to be written by Armstrong and Bain, which never went beyond the development stage. There came another attempt by Starz in 2016, and most recently, FX tried in 2019 to get theirs off the ground with Community writer Karey Dornetto.

Jahava is known for her recurring role in Issa Rae’s Rap Sh*t, while Driver is best known for her work on Good Will Hunting, for which she gained a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Academy Awards, or for her television roles in The Riches and Speechless. She was recently seen in the Netflix miniseries The Witcher: Blood Origin.