Gina Rodriguez is celebrating the success of her new ABC comedy “Not Dead Yet” by creating a sequence adaptation of a well-liked podcast for Netflix. Deadline reviews that the streamer has optioned the “Princess of South Beach” with Rodriguez set to govt produce through her I Can & I Will Productions banner. She’s not at present slated to star within the sequence.
“Princess of South Beach,” which has been renewed for a second season, is “iHeart’s My Cultura Network’s top performing title and was nominated for Best Fiction Podcast at the Ambies last year,” the supply notes. The podcast “follows Maria del Carmen and Gloria, twin sisters who were separated at birth and raised in dramatically different ways — one in a convent and the other in the lap of luxury. When a freak accident kills Gloria, Maria del Carmen assumes her identity and uncovers that Gloria’s rich family isn’t as picture-perfect as they seem. The bilingual series pays homage to beloved telenovela tropes and adds modern twists.”
Created by Casey Johnson and David Windsor, supernatural comedy “Not Dead Yet” facilities on a lady who begins getting life recommendation from the undead when she lands a job writing obituaries.
Rodriguez’s different credit embody “Jane the Virgin,” “Someone Great,” and “Annihilation.”