Lorne Michaels and Aidy Bryant to Adapt Lindy West's SHRILL Memoir for Hulu

Hulu is turning to author, comedian and blogger Lindy West for its next comedy according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The streaming giant is collaborating with with Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michaels and Aidy Bryant to develop West's memoir Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman for the small screen. Bryant is set to star in the single-camera comedy, which is in development.

The comedy is described as the story of a fat young woman who wants to change her life, but not her body. West, Ali Rushfield and SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE repertory player Bryant penned the teleplay and crafted the story. The comedy hails from Michaels' Broadway Video banner and it is being produced outside of his longtime home at Universal Television. The company's Andrew Singer will exec produce. Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman's Brownstone Productions banner is also on board to exec produce the comedy via their pod deal at Warner Bros. Television. Banks originally optioned Shrill for television in December 2016.

Lorne Michaels is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, comedian, and actor, best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live, and producing the Late Night series (since 1993), and The Tonight Show (since 2014). The mogul also serves as producer for Mean Girls on Broadway.

Bryant is known for her larger than life characters on Saturday Night Live, along with her roles in several movies and television shows. Bryant also made an uncredited cameo appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. She has made guest appearances on programs such as Broad City, Documentary Now!, The Awesomes, and Girls. In 2016, Bryant had a recurring role as Alice in the Louis C.K. series Horace and Pete. In 2017, Bryant provided THE VOICE of main character D.D. Danger on the animated series Danger & Eggs. She's also appeared in The Big Sick, and most recently I Feel Pretty alongside Amy Schumer.

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