EXCLUSIVE: Swiss creator Katja Meier made headlines earlier this year when she said she had been shocked by demands to make the female protagonist of her new show “20 years younger.”

Meier ignored the requests and pushed on with $hare and we can reveal she has just landed Better Call Saul star Rhea Seehorn as EP.

Seehorn viewed $hare at the recent SeriesFest in Denver, Meier tells us, and approached her with a view to getting involved with the series after it won SeriesFest’s Rural Intersectionality Fund award. The pilot is now available on independent streamer Olyn and a series is in pre-production. “I didn’t want the pilot to end when I saw it. I wanted to follow each of these characters wherever they went,” said Seehorn.

Meier told The Guardian in January that having

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