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Liz Tigelaar’s Best Day Ever Nabs Rights To Melissa Broder Novel ‘Milk Fed’ For TV Adaptation Via ABC Signature
Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Liz Tigelaar’s Best Day Ever production company and ABC Signature Studios, where Tigelaar is under a deal, have landed the television rights to Melissa Broder’s upcoming novel Milk Fed for series development, with Broder set to pen the adaptation.The anticipated novel, from publisher Scribner, is scheduled for release on February 2, 2021.Milk Fed is the story of a love affair between an ambivalently Jewish woman with an eating disorder and the zaftig Orthodox woman who works at her local LA frozen yogurt shop.Tigelaar will serve as showrunner if the project is ordered to pilot and executive produce with Best Day Ever’s Stacey Silverman as well as Broder.