{"id":17300,"date":"2019-10-09T03:03:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/disney-channel-options-dumplin-follow-dear-sweet-pea\/"},"modified":"2019-10-09T09:33:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T13:33:57","slug":"disney-channel-options-dumplin-follow-up-dear-sweet-pea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/disney-channel-options-dumplin-follow-up-dear-sweet-pea\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Channel Options Dumplin&#8217; Follow-Up Dear Sweet Pea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disney Channel has optioned the rights to <em>Dear Sweet Pea<\/em>, the new novel by <em>New York Times<\/em> best-selling author Julie Murphy, a follow-up to her popular novel-turned-movie <em>Dumplin&#8217;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Set in the colorful small town of Valentine, Texas, the story follows 13-year-old Patricia &#8220;Sweet Pea&#8221; DiMarco, whose life begins to change when her parents announce they&#8217;re divorcing and her father is moving to a nearly identical house two doors down the street.<\/p>\n<p>When her next-door neighbor, a famed local advice columnist, heads out of town, Sweet Pea is tasked with collecting her mail. A letter catches her eye, she starts secretly answering the letters meant for the column. This sets off a chain of events that will forever change the lives of the many readers of the advice column, Sweet Pea&#8217;s family and friends and herself, as she learns things she never knew about the people in her life.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dear Sweet Pea<\/em> will join the Disney Channel Original Movie development slate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The emotional journey that Julie Murphy takes readers on in <em>Dear Sweet Pea<\/em> has all of the elements that deliver authentic and relatable storytelling for today&#8217;s kids and families,&#8221; said Lauren Kisilevsky, VP of original movies at Disney Channel. &#8220;The themes of self-discovery and navigating the new normal of a nontraditional family echo Disney Channel&#8217;s commitment to entertaining and inspiring programming.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney Channel has optioned the rights to Dear Sweet Pea, the new novel by New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy, a follow-up to her popular novel-turned-movie Dumplin&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":17303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-17300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-disney-channel","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Disney Channel Options Dumplin&#039; 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