Meryl Streep To Headline Series Adaption Of ‘The Corrections’

The Corrections could finally make it to the small screen — with Meryl Streep attached to headline.

Deadline has confirmed that Streep is set to star in the project from CBS Studios. Author Jonathan Franzen is adapting the 2001 novel chronicling a Midwestern couple and their adult children.

CBS Studios, which is producing with wiip, will take out the project soon. Franzen, wiip’s Mark Roybal and Nicole Clemens, formerly of Paramount TV Studios), will exec produce.

There’s been a previous attempt to bring the book to the small screen. In 2011, HBO ordered a pilot from Noah Baumbach. Scott Rudin, who had been developing the project for a decade, originally as a feature, was set to executive produce with Baumbach and Franzen. The pilot starred Chris Cooper, Dianne Wiest, Ewan McGregor, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans and Greta Gerwig.

The following year, however, HBO declined to move forward. Puck first reported the news.