EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Meyers’ beloved movie The Holiday is getting a TV treatment. Apple TV+ has in the works a limited series adaptation of the 2006 romantic comedy, which starred Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Jack Black, sources tell Deadline. It reboots the premise of the film with new characters.
Krissie Ducker (Sweetpea) is writer/executive producer for The Holiday series, produced by Left Bank Pictures, with Rob Delaney (Catastrophe) also brought on as a writer. Meyers has no involvement in the project, I hear.
The limited series keeps the setup of the movie about a single American and single British woman living very different lives who swap their houses for the holidays and find love in the process.
Search is underway for well-known actresses to play the leads, with the first offers sent out on both sides of the Atlantic. If/when stars are locked in, the limited series, which comes from Apple TV+’s UK team, is expected to get a green light.
The 2006 movie, written, directed and produced by Meyers, revolved around Amanda (Diaz), a Los Angeles movie trailer company owner, and Iris, a London newspaper columnist who exchange their houses on a whim after each suffers a heartbreak. Amanda meets Iris’ widower brother (Law) while Iris meets an associate of Amanda’s, a film composer (Black).
Released during the 2006 holiday season, The Holiday was a box-office success and, almost two decades later, it remains a Christmas staple (despite Meyers never intending for it to be a Christmas movie).
Rob Delaney and Krissie Ducker
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Actor-writer Delaney co-created and starred with Sharon Horgan on the acclaimed Channel 4 comedy series Catastrophe. This marks his return to Apple TV+ where he starred in Season 1 of Bad Monkey. He was most recently seen in the FX limited series Dying For Sex and the movie Deadpool & Wolverine.
Ducker, who worked as a writers assistant on Catastrophe, has served as writer/co-executive producer on Sweetpea and writer/executive producer on The Assassin.
