Netflix orders supernatural YA mystery series ‘Sid & Zoey’

Netflix has ordered ‘Sid & Zoey’, an eight-episode supernatural mystery romance series aimed at the young adult demographic. The project was announced as part of the streaming service’s new hub for YA content, which features several hundred original and licensed titles.

Created by Jon Kasdan and John Shiban, the series follows Sid, a sophisticated teenager from New York, who moves to an idyllic Mississippi town to live with a police chief and his family. There, he encounters Zoey, the chief’s sharp-witted, punk-rock daughter. The pair becomes entangled in a dark, supernatural mystery hidden beneath the town’s surface.

Kasdan and Shiban will serve as showrunners and executive producers alongside J.J. Abrams and Rachel Rusch Rich for Bad Robot, and Jason Blum, James Wan, and Rob Hackett for Blumhouse Atomic Monster. Blumhouse Atomic Monster is the primary studio for the production.