EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugois being turned into a Netflix movie with Little Fires Everywhere creator Liz Tigelaar adapting.
The book, which has recently spent 54 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller Paperback list, four years after publishing, and has turned into a TikTok…
EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Liz Tigelaar’s Best Day Ever production company and ABC Signature Studios, where Tigelaar is under a deal, have landed the television rights to Melissa Broder’s upcoming novel Milk Fed for series development, with Broder set to pen the adaptation.
The anticipated novel, from…
One of Hulu's Emmy hopefuls this year is the limited series adaptation of Celeste Ng's 2017 novel Little Fires Everywhere, which tells the story of a seemingly perfect white suburban family in the ’90s whose lives change dramatically when a mysterious African American mother and her teenage daughter come into the…
During a panel titled “Showrunner Superpanel: where do we go from here” at the virtual edition of the BANFF World Media Festival, a roster of some of the top shows on television talked about their journeys to Hollywood. Steven Canals (Pose), Tanya Saracho (Vida),Anna Winger (Unorthodox), Liz Tigelaar (Little Fires Eve…
“We’re a show that’s grieving right now on multiple levels,” said Liz Tigelaar during theLittle Fires Everywhere writers panel on the final day of ATX TV…from the Couch!.
She first paid tribute to fellow Little Fires executive producer and director Lynn Shelton, who passed away in May from complications of a…
You can find Liz Tigelaar’s name on a what’s what of popular television series since the turn of the century, when she got her first major writing credit for an episode of Dawson’s Creek in 2000. Her various credits since then have added a variety of producing, showrunning and creator titles and her work includes…
After adapting Little Fires Everywhere into a Hulu limited series, writer Liz Tigelaar is giving the same treatment to another bestselling novel with two female protagonists, also for Hulu. In a competitive situation involving multiple bidders, the Disney-controlled streamer has landed for developmentSummer Sisters,…
Writer/producer Liz Tigelaar (Little Fires Everywhere) has launched Best Day Ever, a new production company, which has entered a two-year overall pod deal with ABC Studios. Additionally, former Netflix executive Stacey Silverman will serve as Tigelaar’s producing partner at the new company.
Tigelaar is currently…
Hulu has landed for development LA Woman, a single-camera comedy from Casual executive producer/showrunner Liz Tigelaar, director Lynn Shelton, and producers Amy Pascal and Elizabeth Cantillon. Sony TV’s TriStar Television is the studio.
Created, written and executive produced by Tigelaar, LA Woman is a coming-of-age…
A first-time showrunner when Casualbowed in 2015, Zander Lehmann was thrust into a new world with new responsibilities, alongside executive producers Jason Reitman, Helen Estabrook and Liz Tigelaar—the latter, the only TV veteran among the bunch. Quickly picking up the process, the Casual creator found an…
During a panel discussion at the ATX Television Festival entitled Television in a Trumped Up America, Queen SugarproducerPaul Garnes made a comment that made everyone cheer. In the midst of the discussion on how the election results have affected television, Garnes said, "One of my EPs on Queen Sugar thought maybe…