Dolly Alderton has announced that her best-selling memoir – Everything I Know About Love – is set to become a TV show.
Dolly Alderton has announced that her best-selling memoir ‘Everything I Know About Love’ is set to become a TV show. The journalist will adapt the memoir for a television drama for the BBC. In the award-winning book, Alderton frankly explored her relationships – love, friendship and parental – and what it meant to be growing up as a millennial – with her group of female friends providing support and humour as she navigated her life and love life. The series will follow two close female friends as they enter their first flat-share in London and navigate early adulthood.
Sharing on the BBC Press Office, the TV series is described as:
“Adapted by award-winning journalist Dolly Alderton from her own wildly funny, occasionally heart-breaking, internationally bestselling memoir of the same name, Everything I Know About Love, gives an unflinching account of surviving your 20s.
Maggie and Birdy, besties since school, finally land in London to live it large, when the unexpected happens – dependable Birdy gets a steady boyfriend. A generous, funny, warm-hearted and uplifting Sex & The City for Millennials which covers bad dates and squalid flat-shares, heartaches and humiliations, and, most importantly, unbreakable female friendships.
Dolly Alderton says: “Everything I Know About Love is a semi-fictionalised adaptation of my memoir of the same name. It’s a messy, boisterous, joyful, romantic comedy about two best female friends from childhood and what happens when they move in to their first London house share and the first phase of adulthood. I cannot stress enough how thrilled I am that it is being made by Working Title and the BBC.”
Everything I Know About Love is executive produced by Jo McClellan for the BBC, Dolly Alderton, and Surian Fletcher-Jones, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner for Working Title Television, which is part of NBCUniversal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group.“
