Darren Star is on board to adapt Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas’ Climbing in Heels novel as a drama series for Peacock.
Star and Goldsmith-Thomas, a producing partner to Jennifer Lopez and president of Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions, will co-write and executive produce the series as part of an overall deal with Universal Television.
St. Martin’s Press will publish the Climbing in Heels novel on April 29, 2025, and Darren Star Productions and EGTV Productions will produce the TV drama.
Veteran TV creator Star has hit credits that include Sex and the City, Emily in Paris, Beverly Hills, 90210, Younger and Melrose Place. His overall deal with Universal Television has Star developing and producing new series exclusively for the studio via his banner, Darren Star Productions.
The Climbing in Heels novel will be published on April 29, 2025 by St. Martin’s Press, and the TV drama will be produced by Darren Star Productions and EGTV Productions.
“I’m so excited to be working with Elaine to bring her addictive novel Climbing in Heels to the screen. I can’t wait for audiences to fall in love with these audacious and ambitious young women,” Star said. Before working with Lopez, Goldsmith-Thomas was a senior vp of both The William Morris Agency and International Creative Management.
“I am thrilled that Climbing In Heels was taken off the table so quickly by Peacock. It is the perfect home for Darren and I to bring these fabulously complicated and colorful characters to life,” she said in her own statement.
Goldsmith-Thomas, as a studio head, writer and producer’s credits include Maid in Manhattan, Mona Lisa Smile, Hustlers and Marry Me. CAA and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof + Fishman reps her.
