Novel Shadows on the Hudson to Be Adapted for TV

TORONTO: Wildhorse Studios and Macmillan Entertainment are developing the new series Shadows on the Hudson, based on the book of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer.

This marks the first project under Wildhorse Studios’s new collaboration with Macmillan Entertainment, the book-to-film division of publishing giant Macmillan. The series is being adapted for network television and will head into production this year. Filming locations, casting news and other production details will be announced at a later date.

Shadows on the Hudson follows the entwined lives of a group of prosperous Jewish exiles in New York City during the late 1940s. The story centers on Boris Makaver, a devout wealthy businessman, and his daughter, Anna. Anna begins an affair and runs away with Boris’s best friend, Hertz Grein, and their whole community is turned upside down.

“We are thrilled to partner up with Wildhorse Studios, and to be working together to create thought-provoking, meaningful content for broad audiences,” said Brendan Deneen, the executive editor at Macmillan Entertainment. “Shadows on the Hudson is the perfect project for us to kick off this collaboration.”