{"id":22901,"date":"2025-07-02T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/worldscreen.com\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T11:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:45:31","slug":"apple-tv-adapting-im-glad-my-mom-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/apple-tv-adapting-im-glad-my-mom-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple TV+ Adapting I\u2019m Glad My Mom Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple TV+ has landed the rights to adapt Jennette McCurdy\u2019s coming-of-age memoir <em>I\u2019m Glad My Mom Died<\/em>, with Jennifer Aniston attached to star and executive produce.<\/p>\n<p>The ten-episode adaptation will be written, executive produced and showrun by McCurdy and Ari Katcher (<em>Ramy<\/em>, <em>Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The book provides a recounting of McCurdy\u2019s struggles as a former child actor while dealing with her overbearing, domineering mother. The adaptation will center on the co-dependent relationship between an 18-year-old actress in a hit kids\u2019 show and her narcissistic mother who relishes in her identity as a starlet\u2019s mother. Aniston will play the mother.<\/p>\n<p>The project is being produced by Apple Studios and executive produced by McCurdy; Katcher; Aniston via Echo Films; Sharon Horgan and Stacy Greenberg for Merman (<em>Bad Sisters<\/em>, <em>Catastrophe<\/em>, <em>Divorce<\/em>); Dani Gorin, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara for LuckyChap; Jerrod Carmichael (<em>Ramy<\/em>, <em>Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show<\/em>) and Erica Kay (<em>Fosse\/Verdon<\/em>, <em>Pose<\/em>, <em>Dead Ringers<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>McCurdy\u2019s memoir was published in August 2022 by Simon &amp; Schuster. 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