“Finding Carter” alumna Maria Maggenti is adapting Patricia Park’s 2015 novel “Re Jane” for the small screen. The half-hour, single-camera comedy series is being developed at TV Land, writes The Hollywood Reporter.

According to THR, “Re Jane” is “set in the geographically close but highly disparate worlds of Flushing, Queens and Brooklyn” and centers on “Jane Re, a honhyol (mixed race) Korean-American woman who feels like an outsider in every sense: She didn’t attend an Ivy League school, she’s been fired from her first Wall Street job, and at 5-foot-7 she towers over the other Korean-American women around her.” Jane feels “trapped by Korean principles including nunchi (a combination of good manners, hierarchy, and obligation) that have defined her life so far,” so she welcomes the “opportunity to jump into a different life when she becomes an au pair to the adopted Chinese daughter of Beth and Ed, a couple of Brooklyn intellectuals.”

In addition to penning the pilot, writer-director Maggenti, who has previously written for “Without a Trace,” will serve as an executive producer on “Re Jane.” Her film credits include “The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love,” “Puccini for Beginners,” and “Monte Carlo.” She also wrote “Before I Fall,” an upcoming feature directed by Ry Russo-Young (“Nobody Walks”).

THR writes that the project will be “produced by Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin and Doreen Wilcox Little, along with ‘Hawaii Five-O’s’ Daniel Dae Kim and Lindsay Goffman of 3AD for Paramount Television.”

A comedy centered on a Korean-American protagonist is a very welcome addition to the TV landscape. A study of the 2015–6 TV season by Dr. Martha Lauzen and The Center for the Study of Television & Film found that only four percent of female characters on cable and streaming programs were Asian.