TWO-TIME EMMY AWARD WINNING ACTRESS JULIE BOWEN TO STAR IN PEACOCK’S UPCOMING COMING-OF-AGE THRILLER ‘HYSTERIA’!

Series Comes from Matthew Scott Kane, John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein, Chris Bender, Jake Weiner and Studio UCP with Jordan Vogt-Roberts (The Kings of Summer, Kong: Skull Island) Set to Direct the First Episode

The Series Follows a Group of 1980s High School Misfits as They Exploit the Growing Hysteria Around Teen Occult Activity

Photo Credit – Bettina Niedermann

Two-time Emmy Award winning actress Julie Bowen (Modern Family, Happy Gilmore) will star in Peacock’s coming-of-age thriller HYSTERIA! , a drama series that explores American’s dark history of mass hysteria through the shocking story of the teenage Satanic Panic, in the role of Linda Campbell.

The series will be produced by UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group. Matthew Scott Kane serves as writer and executive producer. John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein, Chris Bender and Jake Weiner will also executive produce. Jordan Vogt-Roberts (The Kings of Summer, Kong: Skull Island) is set to direct the first episode.
 

ABOUT HYSTERIA! :
When a beloved varsity quarterback disappears during the “Satanic Panic” of the late 1980s, a struggling high school heavy metal band of outcasts realize they can capitalize on the town’s sudden interest in the occult by building a reputation as a Satanic metal band, until a bizarre series of murders, kidnappings, and reported “supernatural activity” triggers a leather-studded witch hunt that leads directly back to them.
 

CAST AND CHARACTER DESCRIPTION:
JULIE BOWEN (Modern Family, Happy Gilmore) will play the role of Linda Campbell, the mother of a teenage outcast. Linda experiences a series of supernatural disturbances that force her to question everything she knows about her son, as well as the growing threat of Satanism in their small Midwestern town.
 

ABOUT THE SERIES:
Writer / Executive Producer: Matthew Scott Kane (Stitchers)
Executive Producers: John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Dungeons & Dragons, Game Night); Chris Bender and Jake Weiner for Good Fear Content (My Spy, Mulan, Under the Silver Lake)
Supervising Producer: Scott Stoops for Good Fear
Director (first episode) : Jordan Vogt-Roberts (The Kings of Summer, Kong: Skull Island)
Cast: Julie Bowen
Studio: UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group
Format: Drama Series