Damien Chazelle to direct Paris club drama 'The Eddy'

After finding huge success with musical Los Angeles romance "La La Land," Damien Chazelle is to direct TV drama "The Eddy," set in and around a nightclub in Paris.

With only his second major studio film, Chazelle scooped Best Director wins at the Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and many more.

"La La Land" also had the biggest box office return of any film nominated for the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars.

A $440m take didn't challenge effects category contenders like "Rogue One" ($1bn,) "The Jungle Book" ($996m) or "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ($814m,) but it was the widest-seen movie from the Oscar's most prestigious categories in which it was up against films such as "Moonlight" ($27m worldwide,) "Manchester by the Sea" ($62m), "Arrival" ($198m), "Lion" ($138m) and "Hidden Figures" ($228m.)

Each of Chazelle's films have hinged on musical associations, whether it be the romantic jazz trumpeter of "Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench," intense drumming education of "Whiplash," or the developing relationship between a nightclub pianist and actress in "La La Land."

So the youngest ever winner of a Best Director Oscar has credentials in musical drama and as a reasonably mainstream success.

Neither is he the first of this year's high-profile Oscar winners to take a TV job; as The Hollywood Reporter points out, "Best Picture" winner writer and director Barry Jenkins agreed to helm "Underground Railroad" for Amazon a month after his well-deserved shock win at the Academy.

Also contributing to "The Eddy" is "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" playwright and "This Is England '90" writer Jack Thorne, as well as Grammy award-winning songwriter and producer Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill") and Alan Poul ("Six Feet Under," "Westworld," "The Newsroom") who are both executive producers.