GLOW: Netflix comedy about women’s wrestling from OITNB creator and starring Alison Brie on the way

Brie cosied up with Netflix on BoJack Horseman

Alison Brie at the How To Be Single premiere (Getty)

Following Weeds and Orange is the New Black, Jenji Kohan’s next series will be another female-orientated story, this time centring on women’s professional wrestling in the 1980s.

Inspired by a true story and based on an 80s TV show, GLOW - short for Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling - will centres on a struggling actress who turns to the diamanté and spandex-laden world of women’s wrestling in a final bid at fame.

Today, GLOW landed this protagonist - Ruth - in the form of Alison Brie, who you may know from Community and BoJack Horseman.

There’s no other casting news thus far, but we do know that the first season will consist of 10 episodes.

Though Kohan created the show, she will be serving as an executive producer, according to The Hollywood Reporter, with Liz Flahive (Homeland) and Carly Mensch (Orange is the New Black) as showrunners.

Brie is believed to have turned down multiple pilots for comedy and dramas at a variety of networks recently, so she clearly has a lot of confidence in the script.

Despite being huge business, wrestling is rarely explored on the big or small screen, aside, of course, from Darren Aronofsky’s 2008 film The Wrestler.