Yahoo News Netflix adapting Marian Keyes best-seller for screen
Marian Keyes' best-selling novel Grown Ups is being adapted into a TV series by Netflix.
The streamer announced earlier this week (March 15) that it will bring the fan-favourite romance to the screen as an "ensemble family drama" (via Irish Examiner).
The series will be adapted and executive produced by Australian screenwriter Samantha Strauss, with See Saw Films also on board to produce. Casting has yet to be announced.
Keyes took to Instagram to celebrate the news and share details of the show, saying: "Hello, I've exciting news!!!!! Seesaw Productions and Netflix are adapting Grown Ups (a book I wrote) for THE TELLY!!! YES!
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"It'll be 8 episodes, each an hour long. It'll be shot in Ireland and I'm already driving everyone mad with 'who will play Ferdia?!?!?!?'
"Seesaw have made HEARTSTOPPER!!!! And — be still my beating heart — only the best show of all time ever, SLOW HORSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The treatment and script I've seen are SO good. I'm wildly happy."
Grown Ups is set to premiere in 2026 and will centre around the Casey family, whose lives are upended when one family member gets a concussion and starts to spill secrets.
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"Based on three couples – Nell and Liam, Cara and Ed, Jessie and Rory, like most families, the Caseys are a complicated bunch," reads the official synopsis for the series.
"Ever-shifting politics. Old and new resentments. Arguments that blow over quickly and hurts that are nursed forever. They're loyal. Noisy. And bound together by a whole lot of love."
The new series was announced as part of the streamer's huge Next on Netflix project rollout, which also included a five-part political thriller starring Suranne Jones, a new reality series with Bear Grylls and Holly Willoughby, and news on the seventh season of Black Mirror.
Grown Ups is set to premiere on Netflix in 2026.
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