Liza Minnelli's memoir is becoming a TV series

Liza Minnelli's best-selling memoir is becoming a screen project. Page Six Hollywood reported on Wednesday, Nov. 11, that Oscar-nominated screenwriter Richard LaGravenese will adapt Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! as a limited series for Skydance. Minnelli confirmed the news on Instagram the same day.

Minnelli is 80, the daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, and an Oscar winner for her performance in Cabaret. Page Six calls her an EGOT winner, meaning she has won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. Page Six describes her as coming from Hollywood royalty. Her memoir covers her childhood in that Hollywood family, her rise to stardom, her marriages, and her years with substance use disorder and recovery, according to Just Jared.

What to know

Page Six reports that LaGravenese will write and co-executive produce the project, working with Berlanti Productions and Magnolia Hill Productions.
Minnelli's Instagram post said the book is "being written for the screen... maybe a limited series, maybe a film or two."
Magnolia Hill Productions and Warner Bros. Television first optioned the rights in December 2024, before the book was published, The Hollywood Reporter reported at the time.
The memoir was a No. 1 best-seller on the New York Times, London Times and USA Today lists and has come out in 48 global editions, Page Six reports.
No casting, production dates or premiere plans have been announced, according to Just Jared. Page Six says reps did not comment.

Who is writing the series

Richard LaGravenese is the Oscar nominee behind The Fisher King, which earned him an Academy Award nomination, according to Just Jared. Cover Media credits him with Behind the Candelabra and The Bridges of Madison County. Page Six adds that he is the showrunner of Netflix's The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey, which premieres Dec. 10. That means he has another high-profile project on the calendar while this one develops.

The producing team has Hollywood history of its own. Page Six names Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter of Berlanti Productions, the company's president Leigh London Redman, and Sam Haskell of Magnolia Hill Productions. The Hollywood Reporter says Haskell was once Minnelli's agent at William Morris. Page Six says he worked for decades with the late Dolly Parton, on 12 film and TV projects, as her close friend and producing partner.

What happens next

The project is still in development, and that stage can last a long time. An option gives a producer the right to adapt a book, but it does not guarantee a series. A writer has to deliver scripts, a studio or streamer has to commit to buy and air the show, and a cast has to be signed. Just Jared reports that none of those steps has been announced.

Minnelli's post named Skydance, Warner Bros. and Berlanti Productions as the companies she is working with. Page Six reported Skydance as the studio developing the series. None of the sources say where it would air.

Music is part of the plan too. A February 2026 press release, issued under Minnelli's name, said Michael Feinstein would write original scores and serve as a producer on the Minnelli dramatization. The release described the project as in development with Magnolia Hill and Warner Bros. Discovery. That means the series has been in the works for most of a year, longer than this week's headlines suggest.

The book behind the series

Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! was published by Grand Central Publishing on March 10, 2026, according to the February release. Minnelli wrote it with Michael Feinstein, her longtime friend and creative collaborator. Page Six reports that it grew out of 15 years of recorded conversations between the two. Page Six says the memoir has "all the makings of a blockbuster series," from her Hollywood heritage and career to her Studio 54 days, her multiple marriages and her recovery. The release names two more co-authors, Josh Getlin, a former New York bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, and Heidi Evans, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

Just Jared describes the book as also exploring her decades-long career, including her years as a fixture of New York City's nightlife scene. Minnelli has spoken openly about the recovery material. In her 2024 statement on the option, she said substance use disorder "isn't about willpower or strength," and that "it is now time to remove shame and stigma." She also said she is "grateful to experience longevity by working on recovery every day of my life." Those lines show what the series will have to handle well. Minnelli closed her Instagram post by promising more: "I've got more stories to tell!"

Why it matters for LA

Page Six reports that LaGravenese met Minnelli in person over the weekend in Los Angeles to talk about the project. A studio source told Page Six the team had been huddling with her since spring. The first serious conversations about the adaptation therefore took place in LA.

The story is set in Hollywood too. Just Jared describes the memoir as covering Minnelli's childhood as the daughter of Hollywood icons Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli. The February release that announced the book was datelined Los Angeles. A series built from that life would revisit the film business from inside one of its most famous families, a story that fits the city well.

Our take

For LA readers, the local link is easy to see: the key meetings happened here, and the family at the center of the story built its name in Hollywood. The harder question is how a series handles the recovery story at the heart of the memoir. Minnelli has said she wants to remove shame and stigma, and a show can help or hurt that goal. What would you want a series like this to get right?

Where this comes from

This comes from Page Six Hollywood's Nov. 11 exclusive by Ian Mohr, Just Jared's Nov. 11 report by Bradley Stern, Cover Media's Nov. 12 story on Minnelli's Instagram post, The Hollywood Reporter's Dec. 3, 2024 report on the original option, and the February 24, 2026 press release about the book.

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LA This Weekend Team