Scream Queens is an American horror-comedy anthology television series created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan that premiered on Fox on September 22, 2015. The series had its world premiere at the 2015 Comic-Con. The first season is centered on a series of murders involving the Kappa Kappa Tau sorority. The first season focuses on the Kappa sorority, at Wallace University, led by Chanel Oberlin (Roberts), that is threatened by dean Cathy Munsch (Curtis); leading to events that reignite a 20-year old murder mystery, with the reemergence of the Red Devil.
On October 20, 2014, Fox Broadcasting Company announced that it had ordered a 15-episode season of Scream Queens, created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan who also co-created Glee. The series will be executive produced by Murphy, Falchuk, Brennan, and Dante Di Loreto. The series is set to premiere in September 2015. Murphy has stated that every episode a cast member will be killed off, saying, "It’s very much like Ten Little Indians. There’s a real tune-in factor because it’s like, Who’s going to be picked off this week? And also who is the killer?
Every episode, you get clues as to who the killer is going to be and then all of these clues accumulate." The series will not be completely anthological in nature with Murphy stating, "Whoever survives—and there will be people who will survive—they will go on next season to a new location and a new terror. Unlike [Murphy and Falchuk's other like series] Horror Story, which completely reboots, this has some of the continuity in that some of the characters and some of the relationships continue into a new world." The first season's killer will not be revealed until the final episode.
The series began principal photography on March 12, 2015, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Exterior campus scenes were shot at Tulane University. The show completed filming of the pilot episode in April 2015, with filming for the remaining first season installments commencing in early June 2015.[44] Murphy, Brennan, and Falchuk were said to be the first season's sole directors; however, American Horror Story veteran Michael Uppendahl will helm episode six.
