Netflix Sets 'Nanny Diaries' Series With Johansson EP
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- Netflix is developing a TV series based on Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus's 2002 #1 New York Times bestseller The Nanny Diaries, which has been translated into more than 20 languages.
- Scarlett Johansson — who starred in the 2007 film — is executive producing alongside Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and Leigh London Redman for Berlanti Productions, with Warner Bros. Television as the studio.
- Amy Chozick and Jenny Bicks are writing, executive producing, and showrunning the series, which centers on a broke aspiring writer who takes a nanny job for an Upper East Side socialite.
- Berlanti and Johansson first discussed adapting the book into a TV series while shooting Apple's 2024 film Fly Me to the Moon, which Berlanti directed and Johansson starred in.
- Netflix's book-to-screen pipeline drove over 9 billion global views in 2025, nearly 20% of total view hours, and the Global Top 10 has featured an adaptation every single week through the first 13 weeks of 2026.
- The 2025 Netflix film People We Meet on Vacation sent Emily Henry's source novel back to the NYT bestseller list with a 97% sales increase across all formats in the two weeks after debut.
Why it matters: Netflix's book-to-screen slate drove 9 billion global views in 2025 — nearly 20% of total view hours — and the Global Top 10 has featured an adaptation every single week through 2026's first 13 weeks. The Nanny Diaries slots into a pipeline that also pushed Emily Henry's source novel back to the NYT bestseller list with a 97% sales lift.
