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‘Vida’ Producer Big Beach To Adapt Alexandra Tanner’s ‘Worry’ For TV; Lesley Arfin To Write Alongside Author

EXCLUSIVE: Big Beach, the production company behind Starz’s Vida and Facebook’s Sorry For Your Loss, has landed the television rights to Alexandra Tanner’s debut novel Worry. Worry follows two siblings-turned-roommates, one a 28-year-old media employee, navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity. The book has been described as a “Seinfeldian” novel of existentialism and sisterhood. […]

Set in 2019, it follows twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold – anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed – who has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she’d marry when her younger sister Poppy comes to crash. Alexandra Tanner said, “I can’t wait to share Jules and Poppy’s diabolically competitive, intensely intertwined dynamic with a whole new audience—imagining Worry’s purgatorial dread and spiralistic, sororal mania as an episodic series with Lesley and the Big Beach team has been the true zenith of my time on earth so far.” Big Beach’s Tim Foley added, “We fell in love with Alexandra’s singular voice from the first sentence, and couldn’t stop laughing as these modern girls flounder their way toward adulthood and family in New York City.

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