Only Murders in the Building
2020s American mystery comedy-drama TV series
Only Murders in the Building (abbreviated to OMITB) is an American mystery comedy-drama television series created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman. The show focuses on a trio of strangers (played by Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez) with a shared interest in true crime podcasts, who become friends while investigating a succession of suspicious murders in the Arconia, their upscale apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and producing their own podcast about the cases, titled Only Murders in the Building. Its five seasons premiered on Hulu in August 2021, June 2022, August 2023, August 2024, and September 2025. In October 2025, the series was renewed for a sixth season, branded as Only Murders in London, which is slated to premiere on December 8, 2026.
The series has received critical acclaim since its debut, with reviewers highlighting its comedic approach to crime fiction as well as the cast performances. It has received nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series and Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. For their performances, Martin, Short, and Gomez have gained acting nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards, and the cast of the fourth season received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
Cast and characters
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Steve Martin as Charles-Haden Savage, a misanthropic semi-retired actor who was the star of the popular 1990s crime drama series Brazzos and, as a result of the podcast's success, goes on to star in its 2020s revival
Matthew Lamb as young Charles (season 2)
Martin Short as Oliver Putnam, an ambitious but financially struggling Broadway director who spawns the idea of the podcast and becomes its director
Samuel Farnsworth (season 2) and Hayes McCracken (season 5) as young Oliver
Selena Gomez as Mabel Mora, a young artist and apartment renovator living alone in her aunt's unit, who was part of a quartet called "The Hardy Boys", that solved pretend mysteries throughout her childhood and teenage years, which included her best friend Tim Kono, the first season's murder victim
Madeleine Valencia (season 1), Caroline Valencia (season 2), and Isabella Aparicio (season 5) as young Mabel
Aaron Dominguez as Oscar Torres (season 1), a friend of Mabel and Tim who was wrongfully convicted of the murder of their friend Zoe Cassidy ten years earlier, has recently been released from prison, and dates Mabel for a while
Amy Ryan as Jan Bellows (season 1; recurring season 2; guest season 4), a professional bassoonist who begins dating Charles.
Cara Delevingne as Alice Banks (season 2), an artist and briefly Mabel's love interest.
Adina Verson as Poppy White (season 2; guest season 1), Cinda Canning's ambitious but abused assistant.
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