Critical Content Editorial Desk | October 25, 2026
Erin and Sara Foster have another television project taking shape. Deadline reported on October 24, 2026, that the sisters are developing a Hulu series based on Sarah MacLean’s novel These Summer Storms, with 20th Television involved in the project.
The news comes as the Fosters remain closely associated with Nobody Wants This, the comedy series that helped establish their production company, Fatigue Sisters, as a prominent name in streaming. The new project moves from modern romantic comedy into a story built around inheritance, family estrangement and money.
A family reunion nobody planned
MacLean’s novel introduces Alice Storm, who has spent years away from her powerful family. Her father’s death forces her to return to the family’s private island off the Rhode Island coast, where old conflicts remain unresolved. Penguin Random House describes the book as a contemporary family drama; it was first published in hardcover in July 2025.
Unlike the title’s weather imagery, the larger turmoil is personal. The story uses a privileged family setting to explore grief, influence and the bargains relatives make when substantial wealth is involved. That gives a television adaptation space for both intimate relationships and larger conflicts.
Who is developing the adaptation?
Reporting identifies Melanie Marnich, whose credits include Apples Never Fall, as the writer attached to the series. Erin and Sara Foster are involved as executive producers. The companies and creative attachments are significant, but development is an early stage: a script and production plans do not automatically mean cameras are rolling.
No confirmed premiere date or final cast was announced in the October 24 report. Reports about actors joining the project should therefore be evaluated against later studio announcements.
For readers interested in female-driven dramas, the premise is notable because Alice enters the story as an outsider to her own family. The adaptation’s central challenge will be turning the novel’s shifting loyalties and private histories into a series without losing the perspective that makes Alice’s return consequential.
Sources and further reading
Featured image: An illustrative waterfront residence, not the fictional Storm family estate or a television production still. Photograph by Sebastian Enrique / Unsplash; used under the Unsplash License.
