Netflix is developing The Nanny Diaries, a series based on the bestselling book by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. Deadline reported that Scarlett Johansson, who starred in the 2007 film adaptation of the novel, is executive producing the project, from Greg Berlanti's Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
Written and executive produced by Amy Chozick (The Girls on the Bus) and Jenny Bicks (Sex and the City) who will serve as showrunners, The Nanny Diaries "centers on Annie, a broke, aspiring writer in search of a story who takes a nanny job for a magnetic Upper East Side socialite, plunging into an elite world of unimaginable excess. When she lands the book deal of her dreams to go undercover and expose the salacious lives of the ultra-rich, Annie must try to keep up this double life even as she grows attached to the people and this world... and finds out what her elusive boss is actually capable of," Deadline noted.
