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UCP Acquires Rights to Katie Cotugno Novel ‘Heavy Hitter’ (EXCLUSIVE)


UCP has acquired the Katie Cotugno novel "Heavy Hitter" with plans to develop it as a TV series, Variety has learned exclusively.

UCP has acquired the Katie Cotugno novel “Heavy Hitter” with plans to develop it as a TV series, Variety has learned exclusively. But when Lacey discovers her boyfriend is hiding two devastating secrets—a bad cocaine habit and a pregnant girlfriend—she begins to lose confidence and control of her own story. Then big-shouldered baseball player Jimmy Hodges, a former Rookie of the Year when Lacey was in high school, walks into the bar where she is venting to a friend.

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