Justina Machado

Amazon Studios has given a formal pilot order to The Horror Of Dolores Roach, based on the hit Gimlet podcast, with One Day At a Time alumna Justina Machado set to star in the titular role. Roxann Dawson is attached to direct and executive produce the pilot, which has been casting for the past four months. The project, in development at Amazon since 2020, hails from Blumhouse Television, which won the rights to adapt the podcast in 2019 in a competitive situation, and Spotify.

Justina Machado has a new show in the works. The “One Day at a Time” alumna has been tapped to lead a series adaptation of “The Horror of Dolores Roach” in development at Amazon. Variety confirmed the news. Based on the podcast of the same name, the series will see...

The One Day at a Time alum will lead the pilot based on the podcast of the same name. In The Horror of Dolores Roach, Machado's "Magic Hands” Dolores Roach "is released from prison after 16 years and returns to a severely-gentrified Washington Heights with $200 and the clothes on her back," per Variety. "Her boyfriend missing, her family long gone, her apartment now occupied by strangers, Dolores finds respite in the dilapidated storefront Empanada Loca around the corner, the only remnant of her former life."

The classic multi-camera format of traditional sitcoms – think brightly lit studio sets, audible laughter, broad comedy – has mostly fallen out of favour as the less restrictive single-camera format has taken the genre to more sophisticated heights in shows like The Office, The Good Place and Schitt’s Creek. The...