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The
10-episode dramedy was written by McCurdy and film producer Ari
Katcher. The pair will serve as co-showrunners and will
executive produce the series alongside Aniston, Apple announced
Tuesday.
McCurdy started acting at age 8 and rose to fame as a co-star on
Nickelodeon show “iCarly” with Miranda Cosgrove, later reprising
her role as Sam in the spinoff “Sam & Cat ”opposite Ariana
Grande. Her memoir recounts being “emotionally, mentally and
physically abused” by her mother throughout her childhood.
The show will center around the “codependent relationship"
between a young female actor in a popular kid's show and her
"narcissistic mother,” according to the statement. No casting
has been announced for the child star, who is described by Apple
as being 18.
McCurdy's bestselling book released in August 2022, following
years of therapy the actor said was vital in allowing her to
fully deal with her mother's death due to cancer complications
in 2013.
The title is attention-grabbing and, she said, entirely true.
“With my mother’s death, I’d go from being so, so deeply angry
to then feeling just so sorry for her. And so I could feel
compassion and sympathy and then just anger and rage,” McCurdy
told The Associated Press in 2022. “I’d cry because I missed her
and I’d be angry that I was crying that I missed her and feel
she doesn’t deserve these tears. I think abusive love is so
complicated ... It’s going to be mixed and messy.”
McCurdy's book detailed the difficulties in handling her fame
while simultaneously navigating her mother's illness.
“As agonizing as it is to be in the ambulance with my mother
while she’s convulsing in the middle of a seizure, to look up
and see my face (on a billboard) felt like my life was mocking
me," McCurdy told the AP.
Aniston's casting follows her collaboration with Apple TV+ on
“The Morning Show,” which she also stars in and executive
produces. The show's fourth season is set to premiere Sept. 17.
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