Netflix Scores ‘Calabasas’ Teen Drama Series From Kim Kardashian & Emma Roberts

Netflix has scored a brand new teen drama series titled Calabasas from Kim Kardashian, Emma Roberts, and Pretty Little Liars creator I. Marlene King.

According to Deadline, there had been a competitive bidding war for the project that included two other major buyers who submitted offers.

Calabasas is based on the book If You Lived Here You’d Be Famous By Now, a collection of stories by Via Bleidner. It was the author’s first published work, released in 2021 by Flatiron Books while she was attending UC Santa Barbara.

King is set to write the adaptation and serve as showrunner and executive producer alongside Kardashian, Roberts, Alexandra Milchan, Lauren Wagner via Long Lake Media, and Karah Preiss and Matt Matruski via Belletrist Productions.

The series follows Via, a 16-year-old sheltered Midwestern Catholic school girl whose entire world changes when her family moves to Calabasas and she’s forced to transfer to the town’s high school where she quickly learns that everything and everyone is not as it seems.

It’s a concept that’s close to home for Kardashian as she and her family made the town of Calabasas famous. It’s also the model and actress’ fourth high-profile project to sell since the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, following The Fifth Wheel for Netflix, an untitled thriller for Amazon, and a legal drama series for Hulu in collaboration with AHS co-creator/executive producer Ryan Murphy.

Kardashian and Roberts, who have both been expanding their foray into film and TV, recently starred together in American Horror Story: Delicate. Part 2 of the series is currently airing on FX.

Aside from AHS, Roberts (via her Belletrist banner) has been working on the hit Hulu series Tell Me Lies, which was renewed for a second season.