‘Vida’ Producer Big Beach To Adapt Alexandra Tanner’s ‘Worry’ For Television; Lesley Arfin To Write Alongside Author
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deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Big Beach, the production company behind Starz’s Vida and Facebook’s Sorry For Your Loss, has landed the television rights to Alexandra Tanner’s debut novel Worry.
Worry follows two siblings-turned-roommates, one a 28-year-old media employee, navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity.
The book has been described as a “Seinfeldian” novel of existentialism and sisterhood. Lesley Arfin, co-creator of Netflix comedy series Love, which starred Gillian Jacobs, has signed on to write the pilot episode alongside Tanner.
Worry was released last week by Scribner and was described by the New York Times as a “fabulous comic novel of young adult angst”.
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