“We loved working with Hulu on ‘Normal People’ – they are an inspiring and very talented team and all of us at Element are delighted to be partnering with them again, alongside our friends at the BBC, on the screen adaptation of Sally Rooney’s incredible first novel, ‘Conversations with Friends,’” Guiney said. “Conversations with Friends” is a Element Pictures production in association with BBC Three. Endeavor Content handled the US sale to Hulu and is handling all international sales. Rooney and Abrahamson will also serve as executive producers, with Catherine Magee as producer. Rose Garnett and Tommy Bulfin will executive produce for the BBC. Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, and Emma Norton of Element Pictures will executive produce. Lenny Abrahamson will be lead director alongside Alice Birch, who will serve as lead writer. The creative team behind “Normal People” will return for the new series. It follows two female Dublin college students forging an unexpected, strange and sexually charged relationship with an older married couple, which results in a complicated pair of love triangles that upends their lives. The series will consist of 12 half-hour episodes. The streamer has given a straight-to-series order to “ Conversations with Friends,” which will be based on Rooney’s debut novel of the same name. Another of “ Normal People” author Sally Rooney’s books is set to get the series treatment at Hulu.
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