ABC Seeding ‘The Growing Season’ Adaptation With Danny Strong & ‘Hung’ Co-Creator Colette Burson
Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: ABC is planting some heartland drama with Empire co-creator Danny Strong and Hung co-creator Colette Burson.The Disney-owned network has put The Growing Season is development from the duo, I’ve learned.The show is based on Sara Frey’s recently published The Growing Season: How I Built a New Life–and Saved an American Farm. Hitting shelves back in August, Frey’s memoir detailed the hardscrabble shift the rule breaking author made from rural poverty to creating a widely successfully family business that has now seen her dubbed “America’s Pumpkin Queen.”The Anonymous Content-repped Burson will showrunner The Growing Season with Strong as a non-writing executive producer.