Apple TV+ is creating 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 govt produce the undertaking. The untitled sequence, at the moment 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 difficult, typically emotionally fraught relationship she had together with her late mom.
Aniston takes on the function 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 comply with an 18-year-old actress on the peak of her success on a preferred youngsters’ TV present, and her overbearing mom who clings obsessively to the highlight her daughter offers. The variation 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 govt producer on the undertaking.
The function indicators a notable pivot for Jennifer Aniston, who has garnered essential approval for her dramatic work on Apple TV+’s “The Morning Present”. In keeping with sources aware of manufacturing, her involvement within the new sequence 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 digital camera, the sequence is stacking a formidable lineup of govt producers. Alongside Aniston, McCurdy, and Katcher, the group consists of Sharon Horgan and Stacy Greenberg of Merman—Apple’s collaborators on the BAFTA-winning Dangerous Sisters—in addition to LuckyChap’s Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara, and Dani Gorin. Jerrod Carmichael and producer Erica Kay additionally board the sequence, which is being developed below 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 Finest Vendor record and held its place for over 80 weeks. The upcoming sequence marks McCurdy’s first adaptation of her personal work, a major milestone as she steps absolutely into the function of storyteller and showrunner.
Extra casting has but to be introduced, and a launch date stays below wraps, however with a high-profile group and supply materials that resonated globally, expectations across the sequence are already operating excessive.
