Julie Plec and Amy Chozick’s “Girls on the Bus” Adaptation Ordered to Series at HBO Max

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Julie Plec and Amy Chozick’s “Girls on the Bus” Adaptation Ordered to Series at HBO Max

“The Girls on the Bus” are headed to a new destination. A press release announced that Julie Plec and Amy Chozick’s show — inspired by a chapter of the latter’s 2018 memoir “Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns and One Intact Glass Ceiling” — has received a straight-to-series order at HBO Max. The project was previously set up at Netflix and later The CW.

Written and executive produced by Plec and Chozick, “The Girls on the Bus” is a “comedic character-driven drama [that] chronicles four female journalists who follow every move of a parade of flawed presidential candidates, while finding friendship, love, and scandal along the way.” The show hails from Warner Bros. Television and Berlanti Productions.

Plec created and served as showrunner on “The Vampire Diaries” and its spinoff, “The Originals.” She also created and exec produces another spinoff, “Legacies.” She’s directed episodes of the latter, “The Vampire Diaries,” “Riverdale,” and “Roswell, New Mexico.” She is an EP on the new NBC thriller “The Endgame,” premiering February 21, and has “Dead Day,” a series that sees dead characters coming back to resolve unfinished business, in development at Peacock.

Chozick serves as writer-at-large at The New York Times, and was its lead reporter covering Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. Chozick previously worked at The Wall Street Journal and has consulted on “House of Cards.” She is also working on the HBO Max drama pilot “More,” which centers on a family of businesswomen.