EXCLUSIVE: The Gilded Age co-showrunner Sonja Warfield, and And Just Like That… executive producer Susan Fales-Hill, have signed on to write and executive produce The Davenports YA series adaptation, which is currently in development at Prime Video. The project is a co-production of Amazon MGM Studios, Warner Bros. Television and Alloy Entertainment. Alloy’s president and chief creative officer Leslie Morgenstein will executive produce through the company’s deal at WBTV.
Inspired by Krystal Marquis’ bestselling novel of the same name, the Bridgerton-esque romantic series, set in 1910 America, centers on the Davenports, one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status thanks to the entrepreneurship of formerly enslaved patriarch William Davenport. Surrounded by servants, crystal chandeliers, and endless parties, his daughters Olivia and Helen, and their friends, are finding their way and finding love—even where they’re not supposed to, according to the logline.
Warfield is Emmy-nominated for her work on HBO’s hit series The Gilded Age, which received six 2024 Emmy nominations, including Best Drama Series. Her additional credits include NBC’s Will & Grace, and BET’s The Game. She is repped by Anonymous Content and Myman, Greenspan, Fox, Rosenberg, Mobasser, Younger & Light.
Fales-Hill has been writing and producing classic television series for decades. Her credits include Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That…, seminal coming-of-age series A Different World, where she served as showrunner at the age of 28, and Lena Waithe’s Showtime series Twenties. She is repped by WME and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.
Alloy’s book-to-screen television projects include Netflix’s You, starring Penn Badgley, Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars, and The 100. Book-to-film credits include Adam Sandler’s You Are SO Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, and Sofia Carson’s Purple Hearts, both of which opened at #1 on Netflix.
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