OWN to Adapt Darlene Love Memoir

LOS ANGELES: OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has acquired the rights to adapt singer Darlene Love's memoir My Name is Love: The Darlene Love Story as the network's first original TV movie.

Love was recently featured in the documentary 20 Feet from Stardom. OWN also licensed the first broadcast window on cable to air that doc, starting in 2015.

“The fantastic life journey of music great Darlene Love is the perfect choice for our first original scripted movie,” said Sheri Salata, the president of OWN. “There are a handful of stories brought to the screen of daring American women who walked through fire and back to make their dreams come true and Darlene is one of the heroes on that list. From her first hit song to her darkest days cleaning houses in Beverly Hills to make ends meet, to the triumphant comeback that made rock and roll history, Darlene is a true living legend who worked with many of the greatest talents in music from Elvis Presley and Tom Jones to Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin and Bruce Springsteen.”