{"id":974395,"date":"2022-02-03T06:51:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T06:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/connie-britton-to-star-in-apple-tv-adaptation-of-dear-edward-novel\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T06:51:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T06:51:38","slug":"connie-britton-to-star-in-apple-tv-adaptation-of-dear-edward-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/connie-britton-to-star-in-apple-tv-adaptation-of-dear-edward-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Connie Britton to star in Apple TV+ adaptation of &#039;Dear Edward&#039; novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Connie-Britton-to-star-in-Apple-TV-adaptation-of-Dear-Edward-novel.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 2 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Apple Studios has announced plans to adapt Ann Napolitano&#8217;s novel, <i>Dear Edward<\/i>, as a new 10-episode drama series.<\/p>\n<p>Connie Britton, Taylor Schilling and Colin O&#8217;Brien are onboard to star in the show.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The project reunites Britton with writer-producer Jason Katims, with whom she previously worked on <i>Friday Night Lights<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Fisher Stevens is to direct the first episode and serve as executive producer of <i>Dear Edward<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows the 12-year-old title character, the only survivor of a commercial plane crash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Edward and a diverse ensemble of others affected by the tragedy try to make sense of life after the crash, unexpected friendships, romances and communities are formed,&#8221; the streaming service said in a press release Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new series is a heartbreaking, life-affirming, and uplifting story about survival, resilience, connection, and the examination of what makes us human.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 2 (UPI) &#8212; Apple Studios has announced plans to adapt Ann Napolitano&#8217;s novel, Dear Edward, as a new 10-episode drama series. Connie Britton, Taylor Schilling and Colin O&#8217;Brien are onboard to star in the show. Advertisement The project reunites Britton with writer-producer Jason Katims, with whom she previously worked on Friday Night Lights. Fisher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":974396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}