A24 Wins Rights To Adapt The Girlfriends Podcast Into Television Series

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that A24 won the rights to adapt popular true-crime podcast The Girlfriends into a television series.

Very few details are available, but Michael Showalter, the director behind Spoiler Alert, The Dropout, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, is attached. Jordana Mollick will serve as executive producer with Conal Byrne, Will Pearson and Carrie Lieberman of iHeartPodcasts and Julia Bromberg and Neil Krishnan from Novel.

The Girlfriends is a podcast from iHeartPodcasts and Novel, which was released in the summer. It currently has a 4.1-star rating from 566 ratings on Apple, and the synopsis is as follows:

It's 1995 and Carole Fisher is a high-flying divorcee looking for love in Las Vegas. It's slim pickings in the medical community she works in. But then Bob comes to town. Bob Bierenbaum is a plastic surgeon who flies planes and speaks several languages. Her mom loves that he's Jewish - but there's something off about him. He's perfect on paper but he's quick to anger and he never talks about his ex-wife. Who, it turns out, is missing and presumed dead.

After Carole and Bob break up she tells her friend Mindy all about Bob's wife and his bizarre behavior. You see, Mindy dated Bob too, in fact a lot of women in Vegas dated Bob and they all have their own strange stories to tell. Before too long they form a club dedicated to bitching about Bob, eating noodles and figuring out what happened to his wife, Gail.

In this riveting nine part series, Carole Fisher uncovers the truth of Gail Katz's death, the systems that failed her and all the girlfriends that brought her justice.