‘The Girls On The Bus’: Rina Mimoun Joins HBO Max Series As Showrunner & EP
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Mistresses exec producer Rina Mimoun is joining the campaign trail.Mimoun has signed up to serve as showrunner and exec producer on HBO Max’s The Girls on the Bus – a drama series inspired by Amy Chozick‘s Chasing Hillary.The project, which comes from Julie Plec, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros.
TV, has had a long journey to screen, having originally landed at Netflix with a series order over two and a half years ago, moving to The CW for development in the last broadcast cycle before landing a series order at HBO Max earlier this year.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.
The chapter is a take on the famous 1973 book The Boys on the Bus, about the male reporters who used to dominate the campaign trail.
The character-driven comedic drama series chronicles four female journalists who follow every move of a parade of flawed presidential candidates while finding friendship, love, and scandal along the way.
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