Michael Abels (Get Out, Nope, Star Wars: The Acolyte, Us, Sirens, The Burial, See You Yesterday, Landscape with Invisible Hand, Breaking) and Robert Wallace have been tapped to score the upcoming Peacock original series The ‘Burbs. The show is created by Celeste Hughey inspired by Joe Dante’s 1989 feature of the same name (scored by Jerry Goldsmith) and stars Keke Palmer, Jack Whitehall, Paula Pell, Julia Duffy, Mark Proksch and Kapil Talwalkar. The mystery comedy follows a young couple who have reluctantly relocated to the husband’s childhood home and whose world is upended when a new neighbor moves in across the street, bringing old secrets of the cul-de-sac to light. Hughey & Palmer are also executive producing the UCP production with Rachel Shukert (The Baby-Sitters Club, Nine Perfect Strangers), Fuzzy Door’s Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, The Orville), Erica Huggins (The Naked Gun, Get On Up) and Aimee Carlson (Ted), as well as Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind), Kristen Zolner (Genius, Easy) and Natalie Berkus. Wallace has previously provided additional music to numerous projects scored by Abels over the last couple of years. The ‘Burbs will premiere on February 8, 2026 exclusively on Peacock.
As previously reported, Abels also has Justin Liberman’s feature An Ode to Mary Jo coming up.
