EXCLUSIVE: Amid a renewed focus on coming-of-age shows, Hulu has put in development drama Capsized, based on the upcoming YA novel by Kill the Lax Bro author Charlotte Lillie Balogh who will co-write and executive produce the adaptation with Charlie Craig (Pretty Little Liars). 20th Television is the studio.
As the streaming home of sibling Disney cable channel Freeform, Hulu was an early leader in the YA space with series like Pretty Little Liars before Netflix and Prime Video became heavyweights in the genre with such hits as Wednesday, Stranger Things, Ginny & Georgia, Outer Banks and The Summer I Turned Pretty.
The Freeform pipeline is no longer there as the cable network got out of scripted originals. Hulu is now looking to reclaim its position with a wave of coming-of-age series targeting both traditional YA stories featuring teenage protagonists as well as shows about twentysomethings going
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