Only Murders in the Building is an American mystery comedy-drama television series created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman for the streaming service Hulu. The show premiered on August 31, 2021 with the first season, the second season premiered on June 28, 2022, the third season premiered on August 8, 2023 and the fourth season premiered on August 27, 2024. It stars Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez as a trio of strangers, all with a shared interest in true crime podcasts, who become friends while investigating a succession of suspicious murders in the Arconia, their affluent Upper West Side apartment building, and producing their own podcast about the cases, titled Only Murders in the Building.
The series has received critical acclaim. The show won eight Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards from forty-two nominations and was also nominated for seventeen Primetime Emmy Awards. It also was nominated for twenty Golden Globe Awards, nine Screen Actors Guild Awards, eleven Critics' Choice Television Awards winning one and six Writers Guild of America Awards.
The seventh episode of the first season was given the Seal of Authentic Representation from the Ruderman Family Foundation for the portrayal of Theo by James Caverly, as an actor with a disability and at least five lines of dialogue. The first season was recognized with The ReFrame Stamp for hiring people of underrepresented gender identities, and of color.