Netflix has given a straight-to-series order to the drama “Prep,” based on the novel of the same name by Curtis Sittenfeld.
\n\nThe show is officially described as a coming-of-age story about “scholarship girl Lee Fiora’s high school years at Ault, a prestigious New England boarding school, and her journey to navigate friendship, crushes and class as a fish out of water among her privileged, confident classmates.”
\n\nNicole Taylor will adapt the book for the screen and will serve as showrunner and executive producer. Will Ferrell, Jessica Elbaum, and Alix Taylor will executive produce for Gloria Sanchez Productions. Sittenfeld is also an executive producer.
\n\n“’Prep’ is my all time favourite novel and I have longed to adapt it for the entire twenty years since I first read it and found myself reflected uncannily back,” Taylor said. “There is no more acute depiction of the introspective, bookish self-conscious adolescent girl and no more truthful or excoriating take on the perils of social mobility than in Curtis Sittenfeld’s beautiful first novel. I am overjoyed to be adapting for Netflix.”
\n\nTaylor most recently created the popular series “One Day” starring Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod, which aired on Netflix in 2024. Her other credits…
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