EXCLUSIVE: Common TV has acquired the rights to Liza Palmer’s newest e book Household Reservations, which it’s going to develop at NBC with author/EP Ilene Chaiken and Keshet Studios.
The e book that publishes April 1 follows culinary pioneer and world-renowned restaurateur Maren Winter, who’s nearing retirement. Every of her three daughters is raring to take the reins of operating her restaurant empire, the Winter Group. Dominated by her deep insecurities about turning into irrelevant, Maren pits her three daughters in opposition to one another, starting her personal harmful descent into insanity and beginning the Winter sisters on their journey to freedom.
Palmer will EP the undertaking with Chaiken, together with Avi Nir (Keshet Media Group), Keren Shahar (Keshet Worldwide), Lisa Roos (Keshet Studios) and Peter Traugott (Keshet Studios). Heather Brewster (Keshet Studios) will co-EP.
Common Studio Group’s Inventive Acquisitions and IP Administration group, led by Jordan Moblo, was instrumental in securing the rights to the novel. Keshet Studios has a first-look take care of Common Tv.
“Liza Palmer’s scrumptious e book brings collectively the very issues I like most on this planet – meals and household drama!” stated Chaiken. “I’m thrilled and grateful that she has entrusted us with the tv adaptation.”
“Household Reservations is a labor of affection that was written each morning from 5:30 to eight:30 throughout most cancers surgical procedures and day-job complications,” stated Palmer. “Over these lengthy months and years, the Winters turned household to me. I’ve ugly cried extra instances than I’d wish to admit as a result of I now know my little difficult household are in the very best of fingers with the good, artistic groups at Common Tv, Keshet Studios and NBC. Having these treasured, complicated girls within the succesful fingers of Ilene Chaiken is actually a dream come true.”
Finest recognized for creating the Showtime collection The L Phrase, Chaiken obtained an Emmy Award for Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Story. She was the showrunner of the Fox collection Empire and served as government producer of The L Phrase: Era Q for Showtime. She is repped by repped by WME, 3 Arts Leisure, and Hansen Jacobson Teller Hoberman.
Palmer has written 11 novels and is greatest recognized for Nowhere however House, the winner of the Willie Morris Prize for Southern Fiction. She is repped by WME.
Keshet Studios is repped by WME and by Vary Administration for unscripted.