{"id":21226,"date":"2021-05-19T00:05:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T05:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=21226"},"modified":"2021-05-19T00:05:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T05:05:35","slug":"hulu-announces-straight-to-series-order-for-immigrant-from-robert-siegel-and-kumail-nanjiani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/19\/hulu-announces-straight-to-series-order-for-immigrant-from-robert-siegel-and-kumail-nanjiani\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulu Announces Straight-to-Series Order for &#8220;Immigrant&#8221; from Robert Siegel and Kumail Nanjiani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19952\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Hulu-Originals-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Hulu-Originals-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Hulu-Originals.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hulu has picked up &#8220;<em>Immigrant<\/em>&#8221; straight-to-series. 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The series will detail the insane, darkly comedic, crime-ridden story behind the unique male revue that became a cultural phenomenon.<\/p><div id=\"morty-936499891\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Chippendales founder is a Bengali immigrant named Somen Banerjee who started going by Steve after arriving in the US in the late 60s. He leased the club in 1975 and named it Destiny II. (There was never a Destiny I.) 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