Katherine Ryan gets Netflix Series

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It seems that, just like us, Netflix can’t get enough of 2008 Funny Women Awards winner Katherine Ryan. The British based Canadian comic is writing and starring in a brand new comedy series for the streaming site called The Duchess with 3Arts and Clerkenwell Films, the producers of The End of the F**king World. 

Netflix says that in The Duchess Katherine will play a “fashionably disruptive single mom” whose daughter, Olive, is her greatest love and who is debating having a second child with her greatest enemy, Olive’s dad.

Katherine is set to executive produce the six part series of half-hour shows with Dave Becky and Josh Lieberman for 3Arts, and Murray Ferguson, Petra Fried, and Ed Macdonald for BBC Studios-backed Clerkenwell Films.

We don’t, as yet, know if the title is a nod to Katherine’s deep and sincere love for the now off the market Prince Harry.

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