Scrapbook-style book series “The Popularity Papers” is getting the TV treatment.
Amy Ignatow’s award-winning middle-grade novels will be adapted for the screen by Corus Media-backed Aircraft Pictures, the Oscar-nominated producers behind “The Breadwinner,” and Emmy-nominated production company WexWorks Media.
The original book series, for which the first installment was selected as a top-10 title of 2011 by the American Library Association’s Rainbow Project and won the 2010 Gold Award from the National Parenting Publications Association, tells the story of two best friends, Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang, who are on a mission to crack the popularity code and dismantle the social construct for middle-schoolers everywhere. Using the scientific method, the girls conduct social experiments on their peers with hilarious results.
The producers are at work on a single-camera, live-action comedy series (26 x 30′) that will air on youth-centric Canadian channel Ytv. On top of the financial participation of the Canada Film Fund,...
Amy Ignatow’s award-winning middle-grade novels will be adapted for the screen by Corus Media-backed Aircraft Pictures, the Oscar-nominated producers behind “The Breadwinner,” and Emmy-nominated production company WexWorks Media.
The original book series, for which the first installment was selected as a top-10 title of 2011 by the American Library Association’s Rainbow Project and won the 2010 Gold Award from the National Parenting Publications Association, tells the story of two best friends, Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang, who are on a mission to crack the popularity code and dismantle the social construct for middle-schoolers everywhere. Using the scientific method, the girls conduct social experiments on their peers with hilarious results.
The producers are at work on a single-camera, live-action comedy series (26 x 30′) that will air on youth-centric Canadian channel Ytv. On top of the financial participation of the Canada Film Fund,...
- 2/24/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Media and toy company Alpha Group Us is partnering with Man of Action Entertainment, creators of Ben 10 and the Big Hero 6 characters, on a new original animated series. No details of the project were announced, but Matthew Wexler (Paw Patrol) of WexWorks Media is aboard as an executive producer. "We're thrilled to be partnering with best-in-class creative teams like Man of Action and WexWorks Media to develop dynamic new content," said Brehan Maul, VP of Alpha Group Us…...
- 6/5/2017
- Deadline TV
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