The college admissions bribery scandal had “Hollywood adaptation” written all over it when the news broke in March, and now a TV series is in the works. Annapurna Television has optioned the rights to Accepted, an upcoming book by Melissa Korn and Jen Levitz, for a limited series with DV Devincentis writing. The book…

As more filmmakers have entered the TV space, television programming is starting to resemble more and more big-screen fare, according to the INTV panel today The Film Factor: How Filmmakers are Changing the Landscape of Television.  “We’re producing episodic TV as we produced movies. It’s far more intense and rigorous…

Annapurna Television has inked a first-look deal with writer-director Michael Showalter and his new production company Semi-Formal Productions. The multiyear pact to produce, direct and write covers a current TV project in development at the company and future ones. Showalter directed dramedy feature The Big Sick,…

Hulu has given a pilot order to half-hour Search and Destroy, from Portlandia co-creator Carrie Brownstein and Annapurna Television. Written and to be directed by Brownstein, Search and Destroy is loosely based on her best-selling memoir Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl, as well as her experiences as a young musician…

Annapurna Television, the TV division of Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures, has acquired Victor LaValle's new novel The Changeling to develop as a television series. The book, described as a mix of horror, fantasy and realism, was published on June 13 by Spiegel & Grau. In The Challenging, when Apollo and Emma have…

Annapurna Television’s high-profile limited series adaptation of Maria Semple's bestselling novel Today Will Be Different, toplined and produced by Julia Roberts, has landed at HBO for development. HBO has commissioned multiple scripts from the project, written by Semple. Today Will Be Different follows Eleanor Flood…

Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale, Top of the Lake) is teaming with BBC America and Annapurna Television to develop a limited series adaptation of period drama Fever based on Mary Beth Keane’s novel, with Moss set to star. Moss, who additionally holds the rights to the novel, will also serve as an executive producer…

The Coen brothers are partnering with Annapurna Television on The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, a Western anthology series, their first project for TV. Joel and Ethan Coen wrote the script, will direct and produce the project through their Mike Zoss Productions label. Megan Ellison and Annapurna Television's President of…