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Global streamer Netflix is launching an anthology drama series about living under social distancing rules from the team behind Orange is the New Black. Social Distance comes from the creative team behind the Netflix prison drama and will be scripted and shot with crews working remotely, while the cast film themselves.

Exec producing are Tara Herrmann, Hilary Weisman Graham and Blake McCormick.

In a statement released on Twitter, the exec producers said: “Our job as storytellers is to reflect reality, and in this new bizarre, bewildering reality we are all experiencing, we feel passionate about finding connection as we all remain at a distance.

“We’ve been inspired to create an anthology series that tells stories about the current moment we are living through – the unique, personal, deeply human stories that illustrate how we are living apart, together.

“The experience of social distancing is currently universal, but no individual story is the same. Through a broad spectrum of tales and moments, some seismic and some mundane, we hope to capture a moment in time. And we hope that Social Distance will help people feel closer to one another.”