{"id":277613,"date":"2019-08-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1062612"},"modified":"2019-08-06T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T15:00:00","slug":"alicia-silverstone-mark-feuerstein-join-netflixs-the-baby-sitters-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/alicia-silverstone-mark-feuerstein-join-netflixs-the-baby-sitters-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Alicia Silverstone, Mark Feuerstein Join Netflix’s The Baby-Sitters Club"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kristy Thomas has a very famous mom. E! News has learned Clueless<\/em> star Alicia Silverstone<\/a><\/strong> has joined the cast of Netflix’s The Baby-Sitters Club<\/em> as Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer. Royal Pains<\/em> star Mark Feuerstein<\/strong> will play her love interest, Watson Brewer.<\/p>\n

The live-action adaptation of the beloved book series follows the friendship and babysitting adventures of Kristy Thomas, Mary Anne Spier, Claudia Kishi, Stacey McGill and Dawn Schafer.<\/p>\n

The series, which is set in Stoneybrook, Connecticut, is now in production in Vancouver, Canada.<\/p>\n

GLOW<\/em> veteran Rachel Shukery<\/strong> is executive producer and showrunner. Michael De Luca<\/strong>, Lucy Kitada<\/strong> and Naia Cucukov<\/strong> will also executive produce. Broad City<\/em>‘s Lucia Aniello<\/strong> is directing and also an executive producer. Series author Ann M. Martin<\/strong> is on board as a producer on the 10-episode first season.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“I’m amazed that there are so many passionate fans of The Baby-Sitters Club<\/em> after all these years, and I’m honored to continue to hear from readers\u2014now grown, who have become writers, editors, teachers, librarians, filmmakers\u2014who say that they see a reflection of themselves in the characters of Kristy and her friends. So I’m very excited about the forthcoming series on Netflix, which I hope will inspire a new generation of readers and leaders everywhere,” Martin said in a statement when the series was announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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The Baby-Sitters Club<\/em> originally debuted as a four-book series in 1986 and became one of the most successful children’s book series with over 200 books licensed in more than 20 territories.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first TV series based on the book series. In 1990, a 13-episode series debuted on HBO and Nickelodeon. A movie based on the novels followed in 1995 starring Schuyler Fisk<\/strong>, Rachel Leigh Cook<\/strong> and Larisa Oleynik<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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No premiere date for Netflix’s version has been announced.<\/p>\n

“The themes of The Baby-Sitters Club<\/em> still resonate 30 years after the original book series was released and there has never been a more opportune time to tell an aspirational story about empowering young female entrepreneurs,” Melissa Cobb<\/strong>, vice president of Kids & Family at Netflix, said in a statement. “Together with Ann M. Martin and the team at Walden Media, our ambition is to contemporize the storylines and adventures of this iconic group of girlfriends to reflect modern-day issues.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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The Baby-Sitters Club<\/em> has more than 180 million copies in print to date.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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MJ Photos\/Variety\/Shutterstock; Broadimage\/Shutterstock Kristy Thomas has a very famous mom. E! News has learned Clueless star Alicia Silverstone has joined the cast of Netflix’s The Baby-Sitters Club as Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer. Royal Pains star Mark Feuerstein will play her love interest, Watson Brewer. The live-action adaptation of the beloved book series follows the friendship and babysitting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-27 07:53:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}