Meryl Poster is teaming up with Lifetime on two new female-centric projects. Deadline reports that the “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce” executive producer is developing two scripted series for the network: a TV adaptation of actress and reality star La La Anthony’s bestseller “The Power Playbook” and “Molly,” a drama centered on a high school student involved in the prescription drug business. “Both projects hail from Poster’s Superb Entertainment, which has the financial backing of Lifetime parent A+E Networks,” Deadline writes.
“The Power Playbook” is an “ensemble drama centering on a group of women who use sports strategies to help in both their personal and professional lives.” The group remains committed to supporting one another through life’s lows and highs. Neena Beber (“Ballers”) penned the script. The project is reuniting Poster with Queen Latifah. The two previously worked on “Chicago” together. Latifah and her business partner Shakim Compere are set to executive produce through Flavor Unit, their production company. Poster, La La Anthony, and Beber are also serving as executive producers on the “The Power Playbook.”
“I’m beyond thrilled to be partnering with Meryl Poster, who I’ve admired as the ultimate power player for many years,” said Anthony, whose acting credits include “Chi-Raq” and “Think Like a Man” and its sequel.
“Molly” is written by Melissa Rundle (“Cup of Life”) and follows “a straight-A prep student with Ivy League ambitions who is forced to forge a new path in order to support her family. She teams up with a juvie-bound boy in the prescription drug business, and unexpectedly finds herself falling for him.” Poster will executive produce along with Samantha Olsson Shear and Jason Netter of Kickstart Productions.
Poster has an incredibly packed slate. Besides the two Lifetime dramas in the works, her Superb Entertainment is also involved in a number of other projects, including “The Von Bulow Affair,” which is set up at Universal Cable Productions, and “Family Band” at CMT.
“When I decide I want something, I go for it. I’m totally persistent,” Poster has previously explained in an interview. “My boyfriend says that if I were a superhero, I would have a big R on my chest for relentless.” She recalled, “When people would say, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ I knew I wanted to walk in somewhere and have people know who I was.” “I’m more comfortable having power than not,” she acknowledged.
Poster founded Superb Entertainment in 2013 after working as President of Television for The Weinstein Company.
Check out a video of Poster speaking on a panel below. She discusses the differences between working in television and film and explains how she got her start in the business.
