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Universal International’s Carnival Films has won the rights to All Her Fault author Andrea Mara’s latest novel, Such a Nice Girl. The project will reunite the team behind Peacock’s record-breaking limited series, with showrunner Megan Gallagher writing and executive producing the new series. Such a Nice Girl is set immediately following a luxurious wedding that sees two lifelong friends questioning everything they thought they knew about their daughters when one vanishes, and the other is presumed dead.
HBO Max is developing an hour-long family drama, Six Days to Sunday. Written by Brendan McCarthy and Alex Kavallierou (Wris: Netflix’s Grace & Frankie starring Jane Fonda), the show will follow middle-aged siblings with broken lives who must navigate the messy reality of a modern American family. Marta Kauffman (EP: NBC’s Friends) and her production company, Okay Goodnight, will produce the series.
Amazon Prime Video is officially moving forward with Things We Never Got Over, the first novel in author Lucy Score’s Knockemout trilogy. The story follows Naomi, a woman who just can’t catch a break, a runaway bride who immediately must deal with her estranged sister and her teenage niece while her own love life falls to pieces. From Reacher to YA hit The Summer I Turned Pretty, Amazon has had lots of success with TV adaptations, with Score’s book already having a vast, passionate fanbase anticipating the adaptation that has been in the works with Amazon since the fall of last year.
Hulu is developing Music Theories, a new comedy with Dan Lagana (Showrunner: Netflix’s American Vandal) as EP and showrunner. The show is being described as VH1’s Behind the Music (1997) documentaries in the style of American Vandal, about the shocking true story behind Fountains of Wayne’s hit song “Stacy’s Mom”. The song tells the story of a young boy who tries to tell his friend Stacy that he is actually in love with her mother.