Freeform Orders Black Panther Party Dramedy

Freeform has signed a script-to-series deal for Party Girls, a coming-of-age story set during the Black Panther movement in the 1970s.

The dramedy is inspired by the true story of Ericka Suzanne, the daughter of the first female leader of the Black Panther Party, Elaine Brown. It will follow Ericka’s attempt to survive her adolescence as her mother rises in the Party.

From Platform One Media, led by CEO Katie O’Connell Marsh, Party Girls will be executive produced by Elisa Ellis of Platform One Media (Narcos), Laurence Fishburne and Helen Sugland of Cinema Gypsy Productions (grown-ish, black-ish), and Lance Krall and Peter Siaggas of Picture It Productions, with Dayna Lynne North (Insecure) set to write the pilot script and serve as executive producer and showrunner, should it move forward to series.