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The series was budgeted at an estimated $156 million and will span five seasons, one for each decade of the Queen’s reign. “What effect does it have on a woman to suddenly become two people, Elizabeth Windsor and Elizabeth Regina?” asks Peter Morgan, the series’ Oscar-nominated creator. The show suggests, for example, that her coronation adversely affected her marriage. “She was only 25,” Morgan says. “Philip was forced to give up his naval career and become her consort. That led to all sorts of tensions.” This is not Morgan’s first go-round with Elizabeth: he also wrote the 2006 film The Queen and the 2013 play The Audience, both starring Helen Mirren as the monarch. This time, it’s Claire Foy playing a younger Elizabeth. But as with his past projects, The Crown required heavy research. “Other showrunners have writers’ rooms,” says Morgan. “I have a researchers’ room.” Seven people were hired to dig up material and interview former palace staff. But Morgan doesn’t communicate directly with the royal family: “They’re very aware of the project, but the palace and I exist in a state of respectful distance from one another.” –ELIANA DOCKTERMAN ## TELEVISION CALENDAR SEPT. 6 ATLANTA Community star Donald Glover plays a Princeton dropout trying to launch his cousin’s rap career in this dramedy about race, money and music in Atlanta. (FX) SEPT. 6 QUEEN SUGAR Selma director Ava DuVernay teams up with Oprah Winfrey for a drama about siblings who run a sugarcane farm. (OWN) SEPT. 21 SPEECHLESS The comedy, starring Minnie Driver, follows a family with a special-needs child–played by the actor Micah Fowler, who has cerebral palsy. (ABC) SEPT. 22 PITCH The sports drama imagines the triumphs and travails of the first female MLB pitcher. (Fox) SEPT. 30 LUKE CAGE Jessica Jones’ bulletproof love interest gets his own Marvel superhero show. (Netflix) OCT. 2 WESTWORLD The controversially explicit sci-fi show, starring Anthony Hopkins and Evan Rachel Wood, aims to succeed Game of Thrones. (HBO) OCT. 13 FALLING WATER The supernatural series follows three strangers who see different parts of the same dream when they sleep. (USA) OCT. 14 GOLIATH Fresh off an Emmy nod for Fargo, Billy Bob Thornton plays a lawyer looking for redemption. (Amazon) NOV. 21 SEARCH PARTY Arrested Development alum Alia Shawkat stars as a Brooklynite searching for a lost friend–and the meaning of life. 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