‘To All The Boys’ Spinoff YA Series ‘XO, Kitty’ Starring Anna Cathcart Ordered By Netflix

Nellie Andreeva

Mon, October 18, 2021 at 10:00 PM UTC

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Netflix ’s planned To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before TV series offshoot is a go . The YA series, XO, Kitty , headlined by the movies’ breakout Anna Cathcart , has been greenlighted with a 10-episode order, making it the first series spawned by a Netflix original film. Building integrated film-TV series universes has been among the programming goals at Netflix as its film and TV portfolios rapidly expand.

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The half-hour dramedy , from the films’ Awesomeness and ACE Entertainment, is a spinoff inspired by the popular movie trilogy as well as the bestselling book series by Jenny Han, who is the TV series’ creator and co-wrote the pilot script with Siobhan Vivian.

In XO, Kitty , teen matchmaker Kitty Song Covey thinks she knows everything there is to know about love. But when she moves halfway across the world to reunite with her long-distance boyfriend, she’ll soon realize that relationships are a lot more complicated when it’s your own heart on the line.

Han will serve as co-showrunner alongside Sascha Rothchild. The two executive produce the series with Matt Kaplan of ACE Entertainment.

Cathcart’s scene stealer Kitty character played a key role in the plot of the movies. In the first film, she found the letters her older sister Lara (Lana Condor), a shy high school junior, had written to boys she had had crushes on and secretly mailed them, triggering all the follow-up events.

Awesomeness and Kaplan’s ACE previously developed Han’s popular novel s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (published in 2014), P.S. I Still Love You (2015) and Always and Forever, Lara Jean (2017) into the hugely successful film franchise for Netflix.

Awesomeness is also behind Hulu’s acclaimed series Pen15 . In 2017, ACE Entertainment launched a television division focused on YA content.

In her first TV audition, Cathcart was chosen after an extensive search to play the lead role of Agent Olympia in the Emmy-winning PBS children’s series Odd Squad . The role earned her a Canadian Screen Award as well as a Daytime Emmy nomination. Her credits also include the second and third installments of Disney Channel’s Descendants TV movie franchise, Brat TV’s Zoe Valentine , Disney Channel’s Spin and Fast Layne and ABC’s Once Upon a Tim e. She is part of the voice cast of the upcoming Disney+ Star Wars: Visions animated anthology series.

She is repped by A3 Artists Agency, Performers Management and Goodman Genow.

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