Overview

• Meryl Streep will star in the CBS Studios adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's acclaimed novel 'The Corrections'.
• Jonathan Franzen will adapt his own novel for the screen and serve as an executive producer on the project.
• The story centers on an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children, focusing on their lives across several decades.
• This marks the second attempt to adapt 'The Corrections' for television, following an HBO pilot in 2011 that was not picked up to series.
• The project was previously housed at Paramount Television Studios before moving to CBS Studios after Paramount's recent shutdown of PTVS.