Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, Nine Perfect Strangers Defy Easy Classification

Steve Martin, Nicole Kidman, Martin Short talk about their upcoming shows for the streamer

Hulu’s upcoming series Only Murders in the Building may have been a very different show had Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez not signed up as its stars.

The ten-episode series, which Martin co-created alongside John Hoffman, was initially borne out of Martin’s interest in true crime podcasts and related genre programming, but it wasn’t developed for him to act in, Martin told reporters Friday at the Television Critics Association’s annual summer press tour, held virtually again due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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