Hearing the news that Sweet Valley High could possibly be a television show made me go on Amazon and download as much of the series as possible. Yes, I loved the books and honestly, haven’t read them in forever.
Sure, now they are sitting on my kindle, staring at me and knowing that I am not getting to them anytime soon. But the want to is there.
The series is being brought to life by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who brought Gossip Girl to life, for The CW. Ashleigh Wigfield, who writes on the series, Gossip Girl, will write the series for Schwartz and Savages, Fake Empire and Peter Chernin’s, Chernin Entertainment.
The series is a co-production between ViacomCBS arms CBS Studios and Paramount TV Studios.
“Sweet Valley is the town everyone dreams of growing up in. And there’s no better example of that promise than Elizabeth Wakefield. But when her missing twin sister Jessica miraculously returns, it reignites a lifelong rivalry. It falls to new girl Enid Ruiz to discover that someone (or something) is pulling all the strings, but can she convince the twins that putting their personal war aside is the only way to drag Sweet Valley’s dark roots into the California sunshine?”
The book series was once made into a television series way back in 1994. Sweet Valley High aired for four seasons. The novels (there are 181 of them) were written by Frances Pascal and were written over 20 years. That’s a lot of damn books.
Looks like it’s time for a reread and finding a way to fit this into our viewing schedule when it comes out.
