Amazon Greenlights Mexican Series ‘No One Will Miss Us’ About Nerds Running A Business In High School; Watch The Trailer

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video is going big in Mexico with a TV series about five nerds who run a high school business selling homework in the 1990s. Watch the trailer above.

No One Will Miss Us comes from Fremantle-owned The Immigrant, which is having a good week after Disney+ boarded its comedy-drama Shared Custody from Champions maker Javier Fesser.

No One Will Miss Us is set in pre-economic crisis 1990s Mexico and follows five losers who run an illegal business at their high school. They sell homework and assignments to their classmates and their business brings them money and popularity, but hormones and an unexpected death threaten to ruin everything.

The eight-part series is being directed by Catalina Aguilar Mastretta (Cindy La Regia) and Ariel Award winning director Samuel Kishi Leopo (Los Lobos). The screenplay is by Adriana Pelusi (Control Z) and Gibrán Portela (Güeros).

The series joins an Amazon Mexico stable that includes Quién Lo De Viaje Con Los Derbez, El Juego de las Llaves and a local version of the LOL: Last One Laughing format.

The show is being showran by Silvana Aguirre, the founder of U.S., Lat AM and Spain-based producer The Immigrant. “Adriana and Gibran have created a show that is deeply personal yet profoundly universal, a show about friendship and its meaning in our lives,” she added. “We are thrilled to have worked with Catalina, Samuel and the Amazon team to bring it to audiences in Mexico and worldwide”.