The network has given a script commitment to a TV adaptation of Terry McMillan's 1992 novel, which was turned into a 1995 film directed by Forest Whitaker and starring Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett. Written by Attica Locke, the Waiting to Exhale series "is infused with the humor, sensuousness, and sincerity of the groundbreaking and beloved original film," per Deadline. "The TV reimagining looks at the next generation of our women through the lens of the tangled friendships and complicated lives of their daughters."
TOPICS: Waiting to Exhale, ABC, Attica Locke, Lee Daniels, Terry McMillan, In Development