The Davenports YA Series with Amazon and WB TV gets And Just Like That & The Gilded Age EPs on board

After the massive success of Netflix's Bridgerton, Prime Video is gearing up for The Davenports, a period YA saga about four determined Black women carving out power, love and business in 1910 Chicago. The project is in development with Amazon MGM Studios and Warner Bros. Television, in partnership with Alloy Entertainment. are set to executive produce, along with two new producers who have officially boarded the series as writers and EPs. Their combined expertise in crafting witty, female-led period storytelling positions The Davenports as one of Prime Video’s most anticipated prestige dramas.

The executive producers of HBO Max's The Gilded Age and And Just Like That, Sonja Warfield, and Susan Fales-Hill will be writing and producing the adaptation of Krystal Marquis' period drama, along with Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo.

Emmy-nominated writer Sonja Warfield, best known for HBO’s The Gilded Age, which earned six 2024 Emmy nominations including Best Drama Series, joins The Davenports with an impressive résumé that also includes Will & Grace and The Game. Veteran writer-producer Susan Fales-Hill also brings decades of television excellence to the series. Her credits span from the Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That… to the iconic A Different World, where she served as showrunner at just 28, and Lena Waithe’s Twenties.

More details on The Davenports

Prime Video is preparing to whisk viewers into a glittering world of romance, rebellion, and reinvention with The Davenports, a lavish new series based on Krystal Marquis’s bestselling 2023 novel. Blending the opulence of Bridgerton with the grit of early 20th-century America, this adaptation promises to spotlight one of fiction’s most captivating families: the Davenports, one of the few wealthy Black families in 1910 Chicago.

At its heart, the series follows sisters Olivia and Helen Davenport, their friend Ruby, and Amy-Rose, the daughter of the family’s maid, each wrestling with love, class, and self-determination. Olivia’s torn between family duty and her attraction to civil rights activist Washington Dewitt; Helen dreams of fixing cars instead of fitting corsets; Ruby hopes to marry into power; and Amy-Rose dares to fall for the Davenports’ eldest son, John.

Marquis’s debut novel became a New York Times bestseller and earned honors including a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, a #1 Indie Next Pick, and a Heartland Booksellers Award. She wrote The Davenports as part of a NaNoWriMo project, and continues the saga this November with her sequel, The Davenports: More Than This.

No cast has been announced yet, but with powerhouse producers and writers now attached, The Davenports looks ready to claim its crown as Prime Video’s next big period obsession.

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More details on The Davenports are awaited for now, as the series gets developed at Prime Video.

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