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\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>The\u00a0Gilded Age<\/em>\u00a0co-showrunner Sonja Warfield<\/a>, and\u00a0And Just Like That\u2026<\/em>\u00a0executive producer Susan Fales-Hill<\/a>, have signed on to write and executive produce The Davenports<\/a> <\/em>YA series adaptation, which is currently in development<\/a> at Prime Video<\/a>. The project is a co-production of Amazon MGM Studios, Warner Bros. Television and Alloy Entertainment<\/a>. Alloy\u2019s president and chief creative officer Leslie Morgenstein will executive produce through\u00a0the\u00a0company\u2019s deal at WBTV.<\/p>\n \n\tInspired by Krystal Marquis\u2019 bestselling novel of the same name, the Bridgerton<\/em>-esque romantic series, set in 1910 America, centers on the Davenports, one of\u00a0the\u00a0few Black families of immense wealth and status thanks to\u00a0the\u00a0entrepreneurship of formerly enslaved patriarch William Davenport.\u00a0Surrounded by servants, crystal chandeliers, and endless parties, his daughters Olivia and Helen, and\u00a0their friends, are finding\u00a0their way and finding love\u2014even where\u00a0they\u2019re not supposed to, according to the logline.<\/p>\n \n\tWarfield is Emmy-nominated for her work on\u00a0HBO\u2019s hit series\u00a0The\u00a0Gilded Age<\/em>, which received six 2024 Emmy nominations, including Best Drama Series.\u00a0 Her additional credits include NBC\u2019s Will & Grace<\/em>, and BET\u2019s\u00a0The\u00a0Game<\/em>.\u00a0 She is repped by Anonymous Content and Myman, Greenspan, Fox, Rosenberg, Mobasser, Younger & Light.<\/p>\n \n\tFales-Hill has been writing and producing classic television series for decades.\u00a0 Her credits include\u00a0Sex and\u00a0the\u00a0City<\/em>\u00a0reboot\u00a0And Just Like That\u2026<\/em>, seminal coming-of-age series\u00a0A Different World<\/em>, where she served as showrunner at\u00a0the\u00a0age of 28, and Lena Waithe\u2019s Showtime series\u00a0Twenties<\/em>.\u00a0 She is repped by WME and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.<\/p>\n \n\tAlloy\u2019s book-to-screen television projects include\u00a0Netflix\u2019s\u00a0You<\/em>, starring Penn Badgley, Gossip Girl<\/em>,\u00a0The\u00a0Vampire Diaries<\/em>,\u00a0Pretty Little Liars<\/em>, and\u00a0The\u00a0100<\/em>.\u00a0 Book-to-film credits include\u00a0Adam Sandler\u2019s You Are SO Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah<\/em>, and Sofia Carson\u2019s\u00a0Purple Hearts<\/em>, both of which opened at #1 on Netflix.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EXCLUSIVE: The\u00a0Gilded Age\u00a0co-showrunner Sonja Warfield, and\u00a0And Just Like That\u2026\u00a0executive 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. 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