EXCLUSIVE: Royal Spin, a scripted series adaptation of Omid Scobie and Robin Benway’s Buckingham Palace novel, has been set up at Peacock for development.
Written by Emily Fox (The Watchful Eye), the series is described as a fish-out-of-water workplace drama that follows an American press agent who leaves behind her high-octane career in Washington, D.C., for a communications job at Buckingham Palace.
Royal Spin is produced by Peacock sibling Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, which, as Deadline previously reported, acquired the rights to the book in 2024 following a major bidding war with Fox coming on board to adapt.
The novel, which marks longtime British Royal Family biographer Scobie’s fiction debut, hit shelves Feb. 10.
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Fox will executive produce in addition to co-creating, writing the pilot script and showrunning. Scobie, who conceived the story, also executive produces alongside Benway.
Fox’s writing-producing credits also include VH1’s Hindsight, Bravo’s Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce, NBC’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, Netflix’s Daybreak and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events and the Warner Bros. film New York Minute. She is repped by UTA, Amplified, and Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis & Ryan.
In addition to his books on the Royal family, Scobie is a longtime contributor for ABC News and Good Morning America, now based in Los Angeles developing scripted projects. Cobie is repped by UTA and Hansen Jacobson Teller Hoberman Newman Warren Richman Rush Kaller Gellman Meigs & Fox.
Benway is the National Book Awards-winning author of nine bestselling books for young adults, including Far From the Tree and The Girls of Skylark Lane, which have been published in more than 25 countries. Benway is repped by UTA.