Kathryn Hahn and Liz Tigelaar are joining forces to bring a bestseller to the small screen. Hulu has picked up “Tiny Beautiful Things,” a half-hour comedy starring the former and created by the latter. The series is based on “Wild” author Cheryl Strayed’s book of the same name. Deadline confirmed the news.
“Tiny Beautiful Things,” which is expected to be eight episodes, will follow a woman who “reluctantly becomes Dear Sugar — an anonymous, revered advice columnist — when her own life is falling apart. Told in multiple timelines with astonishing intimacy, nerve, and candor, she excavates the beauty, struggle, and humor in her own life to show us that we are not beyond rescue, that it’s our stories that will ultimately save us.”
Hahn and Tigelaar are among the project’s exec producers, as are Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern, who co-starred in the 2014 film adaptation of Strayed’s hiking epic “Wild.” Witherspoon also produced that pic.
Witherspoon and Tigelaar recently collaborated on “Little Fires Everywhere,” a Hulu drama based on the Celeste Ng novel.
“As we emerge from a pandemic during which stories like those told in ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ helped us feel a sense of community and camaraderie at a moment we most needed it, this is a prescient story to be able to tell at this moment in time and we’re grateful to be able to tell it,” said Craig Erwich, President of Hulu Originals and ABC Entertainment.
Tigelaar added, “It has been such an honor to work with Cheryl Strayed, a writer who has had such a profound impact on my life, and, along with an amazing writing staff, adapt her book into series. Just like Dear Sugar, the advice column she helmed, Cheryl brings compassion, wisdom, humor, and love to everything she does, and this show is no different.” She praised Hahn’s gift for “imbuing the fierce, complicated characters she portrays with humor, honesty, and vulnerability.”
A two-time Emmy nominee, Hahn has been recognized for her work in “WandaVision” and “Transparent.” The “Bad Moms” actress recently appeared in “The Shrink Next Door.” Her upcoming slate includes “Knives Out 2.”
