Apple TV+ is growing a brand new 10-episode dramedy based mostly on Jennette McCurdy’s bestselling memoir I’m Glad My Mother Died, with Emmy-award profitable actress Jennifer Aniston set to star and government produce the venture. The untitled collection, at present in improvement at Apple Studios, attracts from McCurdy’s broadly talked-about 2022 memoir, which chronicles her early rise to fame as a toddler actor and the deeply sophisticated, usually emotionally fraught relationship she had together with her late mom.
Aniston takes on the position impressed by McCurdy’s mom — a determine depicted within the memoir as manipulative, controlling, obsessed and consumed by her daughter’s fame. The fictionalized adaptation will observe an 18-year-old actress on the top of her success on a preferred children’ TV present, and her overbearing mom who clings obsessively to the highlight her daughter offers. The difference is being written and show-run by McCurdy alongside Ari Katcher, identified for his work on “Ramy” and “The Carmichael Present”. McCurdy, who stepped away from performing after her breakout Nickelodeon years, additionally serves as an government producer on the venture.
The position alerts a notable pivot for Jennifer Aniston, who has garnered essential approval for her dramatic work on Apple TV+’s “The Morning Present”. Based on sources conversant in manufacturing, her involvement within the new collection is not going to have an effect on her ongoing dedication to “The Morning Present”, a flagship title for Apple TV+, which returns for its fourth season on September 17 and is broadly anticipated to be renewed for a fifth.
Behind the digicam, the collection is stacking a powerful lineup of government producers. Alongside Aniston, McCurdy, and Katcher, the group contains Sharon Horgan and Stacy Greenberg of Merman—Apple’s collaborators on the BAFTA-winning Unhealthy Sisters—in addition to LuckyChap’s Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara, and Dani Gorin. Jerrod Carmichael and producer Erica Kay additionally board the collection, which is being developed underneath the Apple Studios banner.
Initially revealed by Simon & Schuster in 2022, McCurdy’s memoir grew to become a cultural flashpoint for its candid exploration of parental abuse, ambition, and id throughout the leisure business. Written with biting humor and emotional readability, the e-book debuted at No. 1 on The New York Occasions Greatest Vendor listing and held its place for over 80 weeks. The upcoming collection marks McCurdy’s first adaptation of her personal work, a big milestone as she steps totally into the position of storyteller and showrunner.
Extra casting has but to be introduced, and a launch date stays underneath wraps, however with a high-profile group and supply materials that resonated globally, expectations across the collection are already working excessive.
