Despite a sizable outcry from devoted fans, East New York ended its one-season run on CBS Sunday.
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EXCLUSIVE: Canada’s Thunderbird Entertainment has optioned New York Times bestseller Mad Honey.
The Vancouver-based producer is planning to turn Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan’s novel into a premium TV series.
The novel focuses on themes of young love, teen angst and parental grief, interwoven with murder and high-intensity courtroom drama. The story follows a mother, who relocates to her sleepy New Hampshire hometown to take over the family beekeeping business, whose son is suspected of killing his girlfriend.
“Jodi and Jennifer wrote such an incredibly moving story,” said Matthew Berkowitz, Thunderbird Entertainment President and Chief Creative Officer. “We believe that narratives on this level can truly make a significant impact on the empathy we have for others and how people view their own actions as we co-exist in the world.”
He added that Mad Honey was “exactly the kind of IP we’re looking for as we build out our premium scripted business, and we are thankful to the team working on this project for bringing it to fruition.”
Thunderbird CEO Jennifer Twiner McCarron, Berkowitz and Tuatara Media principal Barbara Wall will executive produce Mad Honey on behalf of Thunderbird, along with Picoult and Boylan.
The deal is the first since Thunderbird launched an LA scripted hub under SVP of Scripted Content Hillary Zwick Turner, as we revealed earlier this month. Development and production is being run from the hub, which is Thunderbird’s second in the U.S., along with looking after talent partnerships and eyeing scripted projects.
Thunderbird’s scripted projects include Reginald the Vampire for Syfy, which is now shooting a second season; Kim’s Convenience spin-off Strays for CBC, also into Season 2;
Despite a sizable outcry from devoted fans, East New York ended its one-season run on CBS Sunday.
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