Emma Roberts and Candace Bushnell collaborate on series of One Fifth Avenue novel

Roberts and producer Marci Klein (30 Rock) are developing One Fifth, a television series based on Candace Bushnell's novel One Fifth Avenue. Originally published in 2008 by Hachette Books, One Fifth Avenue tells the story of the eponymous Art Deco skyscraper that towers over one of Manhattan's oldest and historically hippest neighborhoods—the kind of building you somehow find your way to have to earn inside. For the women at One Fifth Avenue, this building is essential to the lives they have carefully built - or hope to build.

From the hedge fund king's wife to the aging gossip columnist and the free-spirited actress (a recent refugee from L.A.), everyone's plan for a rich life converges under the high roof of this landmark building.



Emma Roberts (pictured) and her Belletrist Productions, who are behind Hulu's hit drama series Tell Me Lies, based on the book by Carola Lovering, plan to bring the series adaptation to television. There's a possibility Roberts could also act in the project, which is currently being shopped.

Bushnell — whose column and subsequent book Sex and the City were turned into the Emmy-winning HBO series and current HBO Max sequel, And Just Like That… — will adapt her book and executive produce.

“Candace Bushnell is a cultural force to be reckoned with,” Klein, Roberts and Preiss said in a statement. “She is creatively responsible for the single most influential TV series and characters of the last 25 years and we could not be more excited to be partnering with her on what we know will be the next great drama series about New York Society and all of its mishegoss.”

“I’m so excited to be working with producers Marci Klein, Emma Roberts & Karah Preiss to bring my favorite novel to the small screen,” Bushnell said. “One Fifth Avenue is a contemporary look at the upstairs/downstairs world of high-stakes real estate, tech bro billionaires, old guard society, new guard upstarts, wannabes and busy bees in our modern Gilded Age. We can’t wait to start world building in one of the most iconic buildings in Manhattan, One Fifth Avenue.”