Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield will be returning to small-screen television. “Gossip Girl” creators Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz are bringing another YA adaptation to The CW: a teen drama based on Francine Pascal’s “Sweet Valley High” series. Deadline reported the news.
Titled “Sweet Valley,” the series is being penned by Ashley Wigfield, a writer and producer on HBO Max’s “Gossip Girl” reboot.
The project is set in Sweet Valley, “the town everyone dreams of growing up in. And there’s no better example of that promise than Elizabeth Wakefield. When Jessica, her twin sister, miraculously comes back, it rekindles a long-standing rivalry. It falls to new girl Enid Ruiz to discover that someone (or something) is pulling all the strings, but can she convince the twins that putting their personal war aside is the only way to drag Sweet Valley’s dark roots into the California sunshine?” the source teases.
Launched in 1983, the book series was previously adapted into the 1994 show “Sweet Valley High,” which starred Brittany and Cynthia Daniel. The show aired as syndication until its fourth season on UPN.
Wigfield’s other credits include “Runaways,” “Looking for Alaska,” and “Great News.”
Source: Women And Hollywood