‘The List’: HBO Max, BBC & A24 Developing TV Version Of ‘Slay In Your Lane’ Author Yomi Adegoke’s Debut Novel
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: HBO Max, the BBC and A24 have won the rights to co-develop one of the most highly-anticipated British debuts of the coming year – Slay in Your Lane scribe Yomi Adegoke’s The List.
In what Deadline understands was a highly-competitive situation that attracted the interest of some of the UK’s top drama production houses, A24’s Piers Wenger and Rose Garnett-led international team won out and is in early-stage development on a TV adaptation for the British public broadcaster and U.S.
streamer. Adegoke is creating and exec producing. Due to be published in July, The List follows Ola Olajide, a high-profile journalist at Womxxxn magazine about to marry the love of her life, Michael.
The couple seem to have it all but one morning they wake up to the same message: “Oh my god, have you seen The List?” Adegoke is a columnist, journalist, former Forbes 30 Under 30 and co-writer of 2018 breakout Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible based on interviews with 39 successful Black British women.
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