Claire Danes and Ewan McGregor to star in The Spot for Hulu

Claire Danes and Ewan McGregor have been cast as the leads of The Spot, a new drama series created by Ed Solomon for Hulu and produced by A24 in co-production with 20th Television. Production is slated to begin in 2026, and no release date has been announced.

The series centers on a successful surgeon, played by Danes, and her husband, a schoolteacher played by McGregor, who begin to suspect she may be responsible for a child’s hit-and-run death. The couple’s pursuit of the truth, the series’ logline says, spirals into a web of suspicion and dark secrets that tests their relationship and raises questions of possible guilt and betrayal. Solomon is set to write and serve as showrunner and executive producer. Robin Sweet and Ariel Kleiman are listed as executive producers, with Kleiman attached to direct.

The Spot was originally announced with Kate Winslet attached as both lead actor and executive producer. Winslet exited the project in June amid reported creative differences. Danes was approached to replace her a few weeks later and formally entered negotiations that lasted several months. McGregor joined the cast more recently. The series received a straight-to-series order when...