Alice-Miranda books by Jacqueline Harvey to be adapted for TV.

Alice-Miranda, our favourite peppy 10-year old student at the Academy for Proper Young Ladies is set to become a TV star!

It’s been announced that the bestselling Alice-Miranda series of books by Australian author Jacqueline Harvey will be turned into a TV series to be aired on the Nine Network. Twenty-six half hour shows are said to be created, with plans for it to be screened internationally. Expect it to hit our small screens in 2018.

The 14-book (and counting) series has been a phenomenal success in Australia, with 6-to-9 year olds falling in love with the charming Alice-Miranda and the antics she gets up to at her boarding school. From exotics overseas excursions, midnight feasts, visiting movie stars, naughty ponies and treasure hunts, it’s no wonder children (and their parents) have fallen in love with the series.

Developing the TV series will be SLR Productions, with European distributor ZDF Enterprises. SLR Productions’ CEO and executive producer Suzanne Ryan, said:

“We are absolutely thrilled to be developing this extraordinary book property into a 26 x half-hour animation series with our partner ZDF Enterprises and for the local broadcaster to be the Nine Network. This is the first time SLR has optioned a book property under the banner of the newly formed Penguin Random House and it is an honour to be working with the very talented Australian author Jacqueline Harvey and the publishing team. The Alice-Miranda TV series will focus on friendship, fun, mystery and intrigue – all the elements 6- to 9-year-olds love.”

“I am so excited to be working with Suzanne and her incredibly talented team at SLR Productions. It’s a huge thrill to know that Alice-Miranda and her friends are destined to reach an even broader audience around the world via a television series that has the support of ZDF Enterprises,” said Harvey.

The series has also been published in over 80 countries globally including the UK, North America, Indonesia, Turkey and Brazil.

WATCH: Jacqueline Harvey chats with Booktopia’s John Purcell about her Alice-Miranda series

View all of the books in the Alice-Miranda series

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