Parkes+MacDonald Acquires Novels ‘My Lady Jane’ & ‘People Like Her’ Novels For TV Series Development

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EXCLUSIVE: Parkes+MacDonald has acquired the television rights to two titles – Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows’ New York Times bestselling novel My Lady Jane, and forthcomin…

, one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Young Adult Books of the Year in 2016, is a comic supernatural tale of true love and high adventure, set in an alternate England in 1553, a country on the verge of civil war. The planned series takes the tale of one of history’s most tragic heroines but reimagines it with an uplifting twist: the damsel in distress saves herself — and then the kingdom.and executive produce with Parkes+MacDonald’s Laurie MacDonald and Walter Parkes.

The project is being eyed as a cable or streaming limited series and a search is out for a writer. MacDonald and Parkes will executive produce. Maggie Cahill of Parkes+MacDonald will produce. Lyons and Vlitos are set as consulting producers.in 2015, Burgess has developed for TV with ABC, NBC, Amazon and Bravo. In features, she sold her female ensemble comedy script, Undergrads, to New Regency. She also is the author of The Dating Detox and A Girl Like You.

Parkes+MacDonald is repped by UTA. Burgess is repped by Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson. Holly Frederick at Curtis Brown reps

 

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