EXCLUSIVE: Leila Gerstein has sold Netflix the pitch for a new romantic dramedy that she’ll write and executive produce, sources tell Deadline.
We’re told the show follows the citizens of a small New England community whose lives are upended when their town becomes the unexpected location of the wedding of the world’s biggest pop star to the world’s biggest athlete — fictional ones, of course…
Reps for Netflix declined to comment on the project. We’re told Bradley Gardner will also exec produce via Busy B Entertainment.
Gerstein has previously developed and created multiple shows including Hart of Dixie, which ran for four seasons on The CW and is currently experiencing a major spike in new viewers on Pluto. She also created and ran Saint X, based on the book of the same name, for Hulu. Gerstein got her start working on The O.C. and Gossip Girl, and has since worked on series such as The Handmaid’s Tale, for which she won an Emmy and a Golden Globe, Mrs. America and Looking for Alaska. She is repped by Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment, WME and Yorn Levine.
Source: Deadline · Matt Grobar
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