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The popular podcast Nice White Parents has been ordered to pilot by HBO as a half-hour comedy produced by Issa Rae and Adam McKay following a tense bidding war. The broadcaster has officially scored the rights to adapt the five-part New York Times and Serial Productions podcast.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, sources have claimed that HBO won the rights to Nice White Parents following a fierce round of negotiations that included bidders such as the Obamas and Netflix. The podcast launched in July and focused on building a better school system and the challenges that must be navigated in order to do so.
HBO has decided to portray the concept as a satirical look at the conflict and comedy that arise when wealthy white parents, who claim to have the best intentions, exercise their influence over generations of students of color within the New York public school system.
Rae and her Hoorae banner topper Montrel McKay will exec produce along with Adam McKay and his Hyperobject Industries partner Todd Schulman. Serial Productions’ Sarah Koenig, Chana Joffe-Walt, Julie Snyder and Alissa Shipp have been assigned to the project to represent the company. 3 Arts’ Dave Becky and Jonathan Berry will also serve as EPs. Hoorae’s Sara Rastogi is also slated to produce.
Nice White Parents will be produced within HBO, which is currently contracted with both Rae and Adam McKay’s companies as part of overall deals.
Adam McKay exec produces HBO breakout hit Succession and has several other projects in the works at HBO and streamer HBO Max (including a forthcoming climate change anthology The Uninhabitable Earth and a limited series about Jeffrey Epstein) via his company’s five-year deal with the WarnerMedia-backed outlets.
Michael is a music and television junkie keen on most things that are not a complete and total bore. You can follow him on Twitter — @Tweetskoor
