Julia Roberts is in talks to star in the studio’s episodic adaptation of Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win Tv show. After the first season of Amazon’s 2018 series Homecoming. Jo Piazza’s latest novel, Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, is being adapted for TV, with Amazon Studios backing the effort and Julia Roberts in line to take the title role. 

Roberts’ performance in ex-military thriller Homecoming led to a Golden Globe nomination. Though, from the story’s podcast origins, she will not be returning for Season 2.

Along with Amazon Studios, the project is back by wiip and Roberts’ Red Om Films production company. The series is being adapted by Jon Robin Baitz, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist playwright who created the ABC series Brothers & Sisters and the NBC miniseries The Slap. This is a coup for Amazon Studios. The novel is an insightful portrait of what it takes for a woman to run for national office in America today. The book follows Walsh, a candidate a former Silicon Valley executive.

“Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win” TV Show

Walsh and her family return to her downtrodden Pennsylvania hometown to run for office. But she has no idea for just how dirty her opponent, her peers, and the media are willing to get. Jon Robin Baitz will pen the series adaptation and executive produce. Roberts will executive produce under her Red Om banner along with Lisa Gillan and Marisa Gill. Laura Lewis of Rebelle Media and Paul Lee and Mark Roybal of wiip will also executive produce.

Jo Piazza, the bestselling author of The Knock Off. What happens when a woman wants it all political power, happiness, and a happy marriage.   How to marry, and Fitness Junkie comes an exciting, insightful novel about but isn’t sure just how much she’s willing to sacrifice to get it. Jo Piazza’s novel is perfect for readers on both sides of the aisle.