Connie Britton and her producing partner, Elyse Klaits, are bringing a project about the role, treatment, and influence of unmarried women in the U.S to HBO Max. The Hollywood Reporter confirms they are developing a docuseries based on Rebecca Traister’s best-seller “All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation.”
Britton is set to executive produce and appear in the project. Traister will also serve as EP. Britton’s Deep Blue Productions is producing and Klaits, its head of content, is overseeing.
“Published in 2016, ‘All the Single Ladies’ examines the history of marriage and single life for women in the U.S., arguing that the history of the country can only be fully understood via the history of its single women,” the source details. “Unmarried women have faced economic, social, and religious obstacles, but in defying convention, have helped to create new possibilities not only for themselves but for those who have come after them — single and married — and been able to forge new and more equal paths.”
“All the Single Ladies” marks Britton’s first nonfiction project as a producer. She’s an exec producer on “Dirty John,” the Bravo/USA true crime drama anthology, and starred in its first season. She also co-exec produced and produced “Nashville,” the ABC/CMT musical drama she headlined. “Friday Night Lights” and “American Horror Story” are among her best-known credits. Britton’s upcoming projects include feminist revenge thriller “Promising Young Woman,” Emerald Fennell’s feature directorial debut.
Traister often focuses on women in politics, media, and entertainment in her work. Her other books are “Good and Mad” and “Big Girls Don’t Cry.”
HBO Max, WarnerMedia’s new streaming platform, will debut May 27. Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick’s “On the Record,” a doc following Drew Dixon as she comes forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Russell Simmons, will be among its initial slate.