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EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate Television is processing Witch Season, based connected Julia Bianco‘s upcoming romanticist modern imagination novel, pinch Bruna Papandrea‘s Made Up Stories connected committee to executive produce.
Bianco’s debut caller will beryllium published connected June 30 by St. Martin’s Press successful nan U.S. and Headline Publishing Group successful nan UK arsenic portion of a two-book deal.
Bianco will pen nan adjustment and executive produce. A hunt is connected for a showrunner. Casey Haver, Steve Hutensky, Jeanne Snow and Papandrea executive nutrient done Made Up Stories. Lionsgate Television is nan studio.
Here is nan book’s charismatic synopsis per patient St. Martin’s Press: “Katherine Barnes is an enforcer, charged pinch upholding nan rules of nan notorious Los Angeles-based Aestas coven. It’s her occupation to support bid and bring unsettled witches – group who aren’t alert they person magic until it explodes retired of them successful a catastrophic burst – into nan coven’s fold. As a erstwhile unsettled witch, Katherine owes her life to Sylvia Page, coven leader and silver-haired rebel who founded Aestas years ago.
When Silas Khatri, heir to Noctis, nan astir powerful coven successful nan world, arrives to return Aestas to task for immoderate of their more unconventional practices, Katherine’s dislike for him reaches blistering levels. She hates his money, his bully looks, his coven’s vulnerable cognition towards unsettled witches. She tin perfectly place that he sets her disconnected successful much ways than one.
But a powerful threat is astir to rise. Stronger than immoderate 1 coven. More insidious than nan decades-long powerfulness struggle that exists successful nan hidden witch world. One that will propulsion Katherine and Silas together contempt their differences. And 1 that will lead to an all-out war.
Bianco is presently staffed successful nan writers’ room connected an upcoming task from Fifth Season and Made Up Stories, and was 1 of 4 writers selected for Fox Entertainment’s 2025 Writers Incubator. She antecedently served arsenic adjunct to showrunner David Hemingson, head Jon M. Chu, and arsenic nan adjunct to showrunners Amy Pocha and Seth Cohen connected HBO Max’s Head of nan Class, executive produced by Bill Lawrence. Her penning has appeared connected Chapters, MTV News, Funny aliases Die, Screenrant and Looper, among others. She is simply a postgraduate of Boston University’s Master’s successful Television program. Bianco is repped by CAA and Artists First.
