A TV adaptation of Fay Weldon's 1980 novel Puffball is in development. Deadline reported that Firebird Pictures has optioned the book, with playwright and screenwriter Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (Obsession) attached to write. The novel was previously made into a 2007 film that was directed by Nicolas Roeg and starred Kelly Reilly, Donald Sutherland, and Miranda Richardson.
Puffball follows a young London couple "who move to the country with the expectation of having children. Their neighbors are Mabs and Tucker, a farming family with five children of their own. Mabs, jealous of the newcomers' easy life, sends Tucker to sleep with Liffey while Richard is away, priming her with an herbal aphrodisiac, but she becomes angry when Liffey becomes pregnant and finds that she herself is suddenly unable to conceive," Deadline wrote.