Big Beach, the production company behind Starz's Vida and Facebook's Sorry For Your Loss, has acquired the TV rights to Alexandra Tanner's recently published debut novel Worry, Deadline reported. Lesley Arfin, co-creator of the Netflix comedy series Love, will write the pilot episode alongside Tanner. The series will be executive produced for Big Beach by Tim Foley and Michael B. Clark as well as Tanner.
Tanner said, "I can't wait to share Jules and Poppy's diabolically competitive, intensely intertwined dynamic with a whole new audience--imagining Worry's purgatorial dread and spiralistic, sororal mania as an episodic series with Lesley and the Big Beach team has been the true zenith of my time on earth so far."
Foley added, "We fell in love with Alexandra's singular voice from the first sentence, and couldn't stop laughing as these modern girls flounder their way toward adulthood and family in New York City. The book somehow manages to be both completely original and familiar simultaneously. The show will be about a dysfunctional family, and Big Important Themes: competition, identity, search for meaning. It will also be about getting stoned with your sister and staring at the internet for so long you think you're your own ancestor."