Lee Daniels To Evolve Valley in the Dolls Into Series For NBC, Chernin Entertainment

EXCLUSIVE: Jacqueline Susann’s classic 1966 novel Valley in the Dolls will get a collection treatment by Oscar-nominated Precious director Lee Daniels. NBC has bought time project, from last century Fox TV and studio-based Chernin Entertainment, getting a script commitment plus penalty. Daniels is positioned to produce and direct the variation additionally to executive produce with Chernin and Katherine Pope. UPDATE: This is among 3 recent drama sales for Chernin Entertainment, which setup at Fox Gina Fattore’s Second Chances, of a female trauma surgeon who needs to handle the truth that they was the only survivor from the vehicle crash that destroyed her nearest friend (the project received a script commitment plus penalty), and Jon Cowan’s legal thriller spec script Truth. Valley in the Dolls, which has offered greater than Thirty Dollars million copies, spans over 20 years to chronicle the lives, career levels and ultimate self-destruction of three female close buddies: Anne Welles, who works inside a Broadway talent agency Neely O’Hara, a vaudeville star and Jennifer North, a showgirl. The title in the book describes a slang for sleeping pills the 3 women eventually be based upon. The novel formerly was modified just like a movie in 1967, just like a small-series three decades ago to ensure that like a late-evening cleaning cleaning soap in 1994. This marks the broadcast debut of Daniels, who round the cable side was formerly installed on an Cinemax multi-generational family put together by Amy Blossom. Round the feature side, Daniels’ follow-around Precious, The Paper Boy — starring Nicole Kidman, Matthew McConaughey and Zac Efron — will probably be released next season. You will discover two period drama series that launched this fall, ABC’s Pan Am, which got on the effective start last evening, as well as the Playboy Club, which was soft within the opener last Monday.