The Gilded Age co-showrunner Sonja Warfield (Real Love, Zoe Ever After) has teamed up with And Just Like That… executive producer Susan Fales-Hill (Linc’s, Can’t Hurry Love) to join a series adaptation of the YA novel The Davenports as writers and executive producers, Deadline reports.
Per Deadline, the project is currently in development at Prime Video and is a co-production between Amazon MGM Studios, Warner Bros. Television, and Alloy Entertainment. Leslie Morgenstein (Sex Drive, The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants), Alloy’s president and chief creative officer, will executive produce the series.
Based on Krystal Marquis’ bestselling novel of the same name, the romantic series centers on the Davenports, one of the few affluent black families in 1910 America whose wealth comes from the family’s formerly-enslaved, enterprising patriarch William Davenport. According to the official logline supplied by Deadline, surrounded by servants, crystal chandeliers, and endless parties, William’s daughters Olivia and Helen, and their friends, are finding their way and finding love—even where they’re not supposed to.
Warfield is known for producing the critically-acclaimed series The Gilded Age, which was nominated for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, and Outstanding Suporting Actress in a Drama Series at 2024’s Primetime Emmys. She has also written on NBC’s Will & Grace and BET’s The Game.
Fales-Hill is a veteran of the television industry with producing credits on Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That… and The Cosby Show spinoff A Different World. She also served as executive producer on Lena Waithe’s (Master of None, Ready Player One) Twenties.
Alloy Entertainment has developed a variety of other series based on books including You, Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars, and The 100. Among the studios’ film adaptations are Sammi Cohen’s (Elle, Crush) comedy-drama You Are SO Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah and Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum’s (Dead to Me, Ginny & Georgia) romance Purple Hearts.