‘Like Mother, Like Mother’ Series Adaptation In The Works With UCP & Sue Naegle’s Dinner Party

EXCLUSIVE: Susan Rieger’s novel Like Mother, Like Mother, about three generations of strong-willed women, is getting the TV treatment.

UCP has snapped up the rights to the book and is adapting it with Sue Naegle and Ali Krug’s Dinner Party Productions.

Like Mother, Like Mother, which is being published by Penguin Random House on October 29, follows three generations of strong-willed women, unknowingly shaped by the secrets buried in their family’s past.

In 1960, Lila Pereira is two years old when her angry, abusive father has her mother committed to an asylum and Lila never sees her mother again. Three decades later, she becomes a power newspaper editor, leaving the rearing of her daughters to her generous husband, Joe. He doesn’t mind—until he does. But Grace, their youngest daughter, feels abandoned. She becomes a successful reporter, even publishing a bestselling book about her mother. In the process of writing it, she realizes how little she knows about her own family.

Rieger is the author of The Heirs and The Divorce Papers.

Naegle and Krug will exec produce. It comes after they struck an overall deal with UCP earlier this year and put a series adaptation of Elon Hilderbrand’s novel The Five-Star Weekend into development with Peacock. USG’s Creative Acquisitions and IP Management team, led by Jordan Moblo, secured the rights to the novel. 

Rieger said, “When I met Sue Naegle, Ali Krug, Jordan Moblo and the UCP team, I knew almost immediately that they were exactly the right people to adapt Like Mother, Like Mother. I feel so lucky to be in their hands.”

Rieger is represented by CAA and The Robbins Office.