Apple TV+ to Produce Miniseries Adaptation of “The Holiday”

According to CinemaDrame News Agency, Nancy Meyers’ film The Holiday will be adapted into a miniseries for Apple TV+. Deadline reports that Apple TV+ is developing a television adaptation of the 2006 romantic comedy—originally starring Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, and Jack Black—with an all-new cast of characters. Casting is currently underway for the female leads, and the series will move forward once they are chosen.
The series is being written and executive produced by Chrissy Ducker, whose credits include Sweetpea starring Ella Purnell. The project is produced by Left Bank Pictures, with Rob Delaney—actor and writer of Catastrophe—serving as consulting producer. Nancy Meyers is not currently involved in the new project.
The Apple TV+ miniseries will retain the original film’s narrative structure, telling the story of two single women—one American, one British—with very different lifestyles who each embark on journeys of love.
The original film, written, directed, and produced by Meyers, followed Amanda (Cameron Diaz), the owner of a movie trailer company in Los Angeles, and Iris (Kate Winslet), a London journalist. After suffering heartbreak, they impulsively decide to swap homes. Amanda meets Iris’s widowed brother (Jude Law), while Iris begins a new relationship with a composer (Jack Black) who works with Amanda.
Rob Delaney, as both actor and writer, previously created the acclaimed series Catastrophe with Sharon Horgan for Channel 4 and starred in Bad Monkey for Apple TV+. He was also recently seen in the FX miniseries Dying for Sex and the film Deadpool & Wolverine.
Chrissy Ducker served as an assistant writer on Catastrophe and was one of the writers and producers on Sweetpea.