Only Murders In The Building season 3 will see Meryl Streep play a  Broadway star who teams up with Martin Short, Selena Gomez and Steve Martin to solve the murder of Paul Rudd’s action star character.

First look images of the new season see Streep, who plays Loretta Durkin alongside Short as Oliver Putnam, looking shocked as they learn of the murder of Ben Glenroy (Rudd) – shortly before his Broadway debut.

Gomez (Mabel Mora) and Martin (Charles-Haden Savage) join the duo to solve the murder and attempt to save the future of Oliver’s play.

A spectacular dance number is also teased with Gomez wowing in a sequined suit and top hat as she dances on stage with Martin and Short.

Martin previously casually told the fans, ‘Catch the new season August 8,’ followed by Short joking, ‘Our show is like Steve trying to pee — it streams for 33 minutes.’

The series is set at a New York City apartment complex entitled The Arconia, where neighbors Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin), a well-known actor from a 1990s crime drama series, Oliver Putnam (Martin Short), a Broadway director, and Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez), an artist living alone in her aunt’s apartment.

After a chance meeting in the building’s elevator, they learn they share a love of true crime stories, and when a murder happens in their building, they team up to solve it.

They end up starting a podcast entitled Only Murders in the Building, and ultimately solve the murder of Tim Kono (Julian Cihi).

The season ends with Mabel standing over the body of the building’s board president Bunny Folger (Jayne Houdyshell), as they’re lead out of The Arconia in handcuffs as suspects in the murder.

The second season follows the trio trying to clear their names and solve the murder of Bunny.

Just before the premiere of the second season, Gomez revealed in a new interview with the Awards Chatter podcast that her character was actually originally envisioned as a male.

Martin co-created the series with John Hoffman, though landing Short was essential to getting Martin to come aboard as a star.

‘My understanding is that Steve said he wouldn’t be in it unless Marty was in it,’ Gomez began.

‘So we got Marty and that was the beginning before I was involved. Steve met with John Hoffman and they spoke and it was actually some of the producers’ collective idea of having a female but not only a female, someone completely generations off. And Steve said he loved the idea and thought it was really fun,’ she added.

After landing the role, Gomez said, ‘the next part was them hoping I wasn’t going to be annoying. That’s honestly the truth. They didn’t know.’

She added, ‘They tell people all the time, “I guess we didn’t really know what to expect, someone coming in who’s younger.”

‘But I couldn’t have been luckier because they called me. I talked to everyone for a while and I just told them all my fascination behind true crime. It happened and I can’t picture the show with three men,’ she added.

Gomez also shared that she started delving into both of her new co-star’s classic movies.

‘So I think Steve and Marty knew of me. I don’t know if they necessarily knew any of my work. Not necessarily the same, because I watched all the classics with my mom growing up but it had been a while and I had not seen nearly enough because they had both done a lot,’ she said.