Apple TV+ is creating a brand new 10-episode dramedy primarily based 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 challenge. The untitled sequence, at the moment in growth 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 along 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 comply with an 18-year-old actress on the peak of her success on a well-liked children’ TV present, and her overbearing mom who clings obsessively to the highlight her daughter gives. 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 challenge.
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 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 digicam, the sequence is stacking a formidable lineup of govt producers. Alongside Aniston, McCurdy, and Katcher, the staff 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 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 identification inside the leisure trade. Written with biting humor and emotional readability, the guide debuted at No. 1 on The New York Instances Greatest Vendor listing 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 position of storyteller and showrunner.
Further casting has but to be introduced, and a launch date stays underneath wraps, however with a high-profile staff and supply materials that resonated globally, expectations across the sequence are already operating excessive.
