Twenty-five years after The Corrections became a publishing phenom, a series of Jonathan Franzen’s novel has found a home at Netflix.

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Multiple Oscar winner Meryl Streep will star in a limited series based on the novel, which Franzen is adapting.

Cord Jefferson (Oscar nominee for American Fiction) will direct.

Netflix gave striaght-to-series order, which comes from Paramount TV; Netflix outbid other outlets to win the series.

The Corrections has has beeh in develomenmt since 2024, with Streep.

It was initially set up at CBS Studios, then moved under Paramount TV Studios following the Skydance-Paramount merger last year.

Franzen’s novel earne critical acclaim after it was published in 2001. It won the National Book Award for fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

The Corrections has been included in several lists of the best novels of the 21st century so far.

The Netflix/Paramount TV Studios series is the second attempt at TV adaptation of The Corrections. HBO filmed a pilot for a series in 2012, with Dianne Wiest and Chris Cooper starring, but chose not to pick it up.

Franzen will exec-produce the series with Jefferson, Streep, Mark Roybal and Paul Lee of Wiip and former PTVS head Nicole Clemens.