The TV show we never knew we needed.
A ’90s pop star drama inspired by Mandy Moore’s early music career is officially in the works.
Variety report the series – currently titled 90’s Popstar – will follow a family from a small town in Florida, whose teenage daughter goes from aspiring singer to superstar overnight.
The Bold Type and Gossip Girl’s Amanda Lasher created the project. She will serve as writer as well as executive producer, alongside Mandy Moore.
This Is Us showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger will also serve as executive producers. Adam Londy and Regina Lee will executive produce, with Marc Webb – who is also attached to direct.
The show has been given a pilot order from ABC, with a put-pilot commitment.
Mandy Moore first shot to fame in the late 1990s, with the release of her 1999 single Candy, which was followed by her debut album So Real.
That was followed up by 2000’s I Wanna Be With You and the self-titled Mandy Moore, which was released in 2001.
She released Coverage in 2003, before following that up with Wild Hope in 2007.
Her last album, Amanda Leigh, was released in 2009. In 2019, she released her first original song in more than 10 years, When I Wasn’t Watching.
