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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is processing The Nanny Diaries, a bid based connected nan #1 New York Times bestseller by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. Scarlett Johansson, who starred successful nan 2007 characteristic adjustment of nan novel, is executive producing nan project, from Greg Berlanti‘s Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television wherever nan institution is nether an wide deal.
The Nanny Diaries joins Netflix’s book-to-screen development slate that includes Black Hole, The Corrections, Lights Out and So Far Gone. The streamer’s adaptations person yielded respective titles connected nan Most Popular English bid and movie lists: His & Hers, Bridgerton, The Queen’s Gambit and Leave nan World Behind.
Written and executive produced by Amy Chozick (The Girls connected nan Bus) and Jenny Bicks (Sex and nan City) who will service arsenic showrunners, The Nanny Diaries centers connected Annie, a broke, aspiring writer successful hunt of a communicative who takes a nanny occupation for a magnetic Upper East Side socialite, plunging into an elite world of unimaginable excess. When she lands nan book woody of her dreams to spell undercover and expose nan salacious lives of nan ultra-rich, Annie must effort to support up this double life moreover arsenic she grows attached to nan group and this world… and finds retired what her elusive leader is really tin of.
Berlanti and Johansson first discussed nan thought of adapting nan book into a TV bid while shooting Apple’s 2024 movie Fly Me to nan Moon, which Berlanti directed and Johansson starred in. Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Leigh London Redman executive nutrient for Berlanti Productions alongside Johannson, Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn for These Pictures arsenic good arsenic Gary Barber and Sean Hoagland for Spyglass Media Group. Nikki Cooper Molina is overseeing for Berlanti Productions. Warner Bros. TV is nan studio.
The 2002 caller The Nanny Diaries by Kraus and McLaughlin, some erstwhile nannies, has been translated into much than 20 languages. Written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, its 2007 movie adjustment starred Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti and Chris Evans.
In 2025, book adaptations drove complete 9B world views connected Netflix and represented astir 20% of full position hours. The Netflix Global Top 10 lists featured a book adjustment each azygous week, a streak that has continued done nan first 13 weeks of this year. New bid and films based connected books coming successful 2026 see East of Eden, Pride and Prejudice, Little House connected nan Prairie, Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Whisper Man.
Netflix’s adaptations person boosted their literate root worldly too, including nan caller merchandise of nan movie People We Meet connected Vacation sending Emily Henry’s caller backmost onto nan NYT bestseller database arsenic it saw a 97% summation successful income crossed each formats successful nan 2 weeks aft nan movie debut, according to nan Penguin Publishing Group.
Chozick, a journalist who has worked for The New York Times, is nan writer of bestselling memoir Chasing Hillary, which she adapted into nan HBO Max series The Girls connected nan Bus. Her debut novel, With Friends Like You, will beryllium published by Penguin Random House successful July. Chozick is adapting nan caller into a movie pinch shaper Brad Weston and Fifth Season and has 3 bid successful improvement astatine Apple and Netflix.
Writer-producer Bicks’ TV bid credits see Dawson’s Creek, connected which she worked pinch Berlanti, Seinfeld and HBO’s Sex and nan City, wherever she wrote crossed each six seasons and roseate to executive producer, sharing successful nan show’s Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy Award. She besides created and showran ABC’s Men successful Trees (ABC) and Showtime’s The Big C. Her characteristic credits see The Greatest Showman and Rio 2.
