Netflix Orders Prep as Half‑Hour YA Series From Nicole Taylor

Overview

• Netflix gave a straight‑to‑series order for Prep on November 3, 2026, moving Curtis Sittenfeld’s 2005 novel from long‑running development into active series work.
• Nicole Taylor will write and serve as showrunner for the half‑hour coming‑of‑age drama that follows scholarship student Lee Fiora at an elite New England boarding school.
• Gloria Sanchez Productions will executive produce, with Will Ferrell, Jessica Elbaum, Alix Taylor and Sittenfeld attached as executive producers, and no casting or production start dates announced yet.
• The series is explicitly described as a half‑hour drama rather than a comedy, and a writers room is slated to open in January as the project enters early development.
• Sittenfeld praised the move after nearly 22 years since the book’s publication and the greenlight signals Netflix’s continued push into YA programming and shorter‑format dramatic series.