Half a year after Netflix was reported to be looking at the royal drama "The Crown," the streaming media service is pushing forward with the series.

The company announced late Wednesday that it will commit to a 10-episode season of the show about Queen Elizabeth II.

Academy Award-nominated Peter Morgan ("The Queen," "Frost/Nixon"), as well as Stephen Daldry ("Billy Elliot," "The Hours") will respectively write and direct the show, inspired by Morgan's play "The Audience." The play, which drew the curtain in 2013, focused on weekly audiences given by Queen Elizabeth II to prime ministers between her accession in 1952 through the present day.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, "The Crown" will center on the "intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century."

Morgan and Daldry's collaboration means a reunion with Andy Harries of Left Bank Pictures, and producers Robert Fox and Matthew Byam Shaw. All three produced Morgan's "The Audience" and have six Academy Award nominations between them.

In the 2006 feature film "The Queen," Morgan tackled the same subject matter with Helen Mirren as Elizabeth. Mirren won an Oscar for the role.

Netflix will upload the original content in 2016.

Each season of "The Crown" will follow political and personal endeavors spanning a decade of the Queen's reign, displaying the difficulties in balancing her private life while being a public figure. The premiere season will begin with the 25-year-old Elizabeth, then still a princess, placed in charge of the monarchy while trying to work with the daunting prime minister Winston Churchill.

"'The Crown' is storytelling that lives somewhere between television and cinema from Britain's foremost chroniclers of modern politics, class and society," VP of original content at Netflix Cindy Holland said. "We are enormously proud to be the exclusive home of a series from Peter Morgan and Stephen Daldry that promises to fascinate and entertain audiences around the world."

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