While the first three shows have all been canceled, the latter is currently in production for season two. We didn’t have the skill yet to support bringing in a young adult audience,” Rovner told THR’s TV’s Top 5 podcast in February.Īmazon, meanwhile, has courted the YA audience before with programming including The Wilds, Panic, I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Summer I Turned Pretty. And I’m hoping that once we get the parents with shows like Poker Face and shows like Traitors, that we will be able to do a show like Vampire Academy a few years from now. “What we realized is we have to get the parents before we get the teens. Susan Rovner, who oversees Peacock and NBC, recently told The Hollywood Reporter that the streamer wasn’t established enough to program to a young adult audience.

Plec previously delivered the similarly YA-themed drama The Vampire Academy to Peacock, but the NBCUniversal-backed streamer canceled it after a single season, in addition to dropping the Plec-produced Dead Day. It’s interesting that the series was set up at Amazon, rather than Universal TV’s streaming sibling Peacock. My So-Called Company’s Emily Cummins and Lockhart will also exec produce alongside Plec and MacKenzie. Plec and MacKenzie will write the series together, with the former penning the pilot and the latter handling the second episode. As die-hard book fans ourselves, we have one message to the many loyal readers out there: if anyone asks you how it ends … just lie,” Plec and MacKenzie said in a joint statement Tuesday. We’re also incredibly grateful that the author has joined our creative team behind the scenes. But finally, we are elated to be bringing it to life with everyone at Prime Video and UTV, who are just as passionate about this twisty tale as we are.

“We’ve been obsessed with this beloved story for years and for a while it seemed like it might be the one that got away from us.

The novel has sold nearly 3 million copies and spent weeks on the New York Times’ best-seller list. The series is described as a tragic love story and an amnesia thriller that is set on a privately owned island off the coast of Massachusetts. Amazon Sending 100 Prime Video Series and Movies to Freevee Streaming Service This Year

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