Netflix has given a series order to female-driven dramedy Maid, inspired by Stephan Land’s New York Times best-selling memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive, from wr…
’s LuckyChap Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television, where Wells is under a deal and where the project had been in development.will chronicle a single mother who turns to housekeeping to—barely—make ends meet as she battles against poverty, homelessness, and bureaucracy. Told primarily through her point of view, Maid will be a beautiful, alive, gritty, and inspiring exploration of poverty in America.Metzler executive produces and also will serve as showrunner.
“Stephanie Land’s book is a powerful and necessary read, with incredible insight into the struggles people face whilst just trying to get by,” LuckyChap Entertainment said in a statement. “We are thrilled to partner with John Wells and his amazing team, as well as WBTV and Netflix, to help this story reach as wide an audience as possible.”
“Stephanie tells the searing and remarkably human story of a young woman battling to find a secure future for herself and her infant daughter, Mia, in the face of overwhelming odds and governmental assistance programs of impossible complexity,” said Wells. “We’re delighted to be able to partner with LuckyChap, Warner Bros, and the extraordinarily talented Molly Metzler to tell this moving story.
, debuted at #3 on The New York Times Best Seller list. The book, Land’s first, grew out of a 2015 article she wrote for Vox. Veteran writer-producer-director Wells has spent nearly his entire TV career at WBTV, since landing a story editor job there in 1986. Since then, he has executive produced a slew of successful and critically praised series for Warner Bros. TV, includingJWP currently has more than a dozen projects in the works, including the provocative
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