Jennifer Aniston to Star in ‘I'm Glad My Mom Died' Series at Apple TV+
The star and executive producer of The Morning Show will lead a series inspired by Jennette McCurdy's memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died at the streamer. McCurdy is adapting her book alongside Ari Katcher (Ramy, Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show), and the two will serve as co-showrunners. Aniston is also an executive producer.
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Former iCarly star McCurdy's book, details the relationship she had with her abusive mother and the road to recovery she took following her mother's death in 2013. I'm Glad My Mom Died became an instant bestseller after it was published in 2022.
'I've been so touched by how much the emotional thrust of the story has connected with people, which I see as being my relationship with my mom,' McCurdy told The Hollywood Reporter soon after the book was released. 'That's an important and complicated relational dynamic to explore, and to see that people are responding to it has been amazing. And to see people responding to the humor of it and the aspect of exploring eating disorders and complicated grief, it's really been incredible.'
The series is described as a dramedy that will center on 'the codependent relationship between an 18-year-old actress in a hit kids' show, and her narcissistic mom who relishes in her identity as a starlet's mother,' the show's logline reads. Aniston will play the mother.
Aniston also has the fourth season of The Morning Show on deck at Apple TV+. The series is set to return Sept. 17, with a two-year time jump following the events of season three in 2023.
Apple Studios is producing the series based on I'm Glad My Mom Died. McCurdy and Katcher are co-showrunners and will executive produce with Aniston (via her Echo Films); Sharon Horgan and Stacy Greenberg of Merman Productions; Dani Gorin, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara of LuckyChap; and Jerrod Carmichael and Erica Kay.
Aniston is repped by CAA, Lighthouse Management & Media and Hansen Jacobson; McCurdy,by CAA, Jill Fritzo PR and Hansen Jacobson; Horgan, by United Agents in the U.K. WME in the U.S. and Nelson Davis; LuckyChap, by Entertainment 360, CAA, Narrative and attorney Jeff Bernstein; Katcher, by WME, Entertainment 360, and Ziffren Brittenham; and Carmichael, by WME, Entertainment 360 and Johnson Shapiro.
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