‘The Girls On The Bus’ Moves To HBO Max With Series Order For Drama From Julie Plec, Amy Chozick & Berlanti Prods.

deadline.com:

The Girls On The Bus‘ long journey to the small screen has come to a successful conclusion with a straight-to-series order at HBO Max.

The drama series adaptation of Amy Chozick’s best-selling book Chasing Hillary, from Julie Plec, Chozick, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros.

TV, originally landed at Netflix with a series order three years and moved to the CW for development earlier in this broadcast cycle.The project did not go to pilot at the broadcast network, co-owned by Warner Bros.

and ViacomCBS, though CW brass were interested in pursuing the project as a collaboration with HBO Max, I hear. That is not in consideration at the moment for the series, which has started casting its leads, sources said.Written by Plec and Chozick, the series is inspired by “The Girls On the Bus” chapter in Chozick’s book Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns and One Intact Glass Ceiling,, which is a take on the famous 1973 book The Boys On the Bus, about the male reporters who used to dominate the campaign trail.