{"id":237290,"date":"2026-01-10T05:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/237290\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T05:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:07:07","slug":"i-suck-at-girls-tv-show-ordered-by-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/237290\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I Suck at Girls’ TV Show Ordered by Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNetflix has ordered a series adaptation of Justin Halpern\u2019s 2012 memoir \u201cI Suck at Girls<\/a>,\u201d which will be written by Halpert and Patrick Schumacker, who both serve as co-showrunners on \u201cAbbott Elementary\u201d alongside Quinta Brunson. \u201cShrinking\u201d and \u201cScrubs\u201d exec producer Bill Lawrence is also on board via his banner Doozer, as well as Warner Bros. TV.<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety hears the order is cast-contingent, meaning Netflix could scrap the project based on which actors the producers are able to attach.<\/p>\n

\n\tNetflix declined to comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show follows three high school sophomores who stumble through teenage romances while navigating adolescence and identity. \u201cI Suck at Girls\u201d is based on Halpern\u2019s romantic misadventures with childhood crushes and losing his virginity.<\/p>\n

\n\tHalpern and Schumacker are executive producing the series through their Delicious Non-Sequitur Productions alongside Chet Dave, Lawrence, Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer.<\/p>\n

\n\tHalpern, Schumacker and Lawrence first developed \u201cI Suck at Girls\u201d as a pilot at Fox in 2013. At Fox, the show was developed with the working title \u201cSurviving Jack,\u201d and was framed as a single-camera ensemble comedy. Set in 1990s Southern California, Christopher Meloni was cast to as a man becoming a dad, as his son is becoming a man, \u201cin a time before \u2018coming of age\u2019 was something you could Google.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLawrence remains involved because \u201cSurviving Jack\u201d was produced by Doozer Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. At the time, Halpern and Schumacker were perhaps best known for their adaptation of Halpern\u2019s Twitter feed \u201c$#! My Dad Says.\u201d The Fox version was executive produced by Halpern, Schumacker, Lawrence (\u201cSpin City,\u201d \u201cScrubs,\u201d \u201cClone High,\u201d \u201cCougar Town\u201d) and Jeff Ingold. Victor Nelli (\u201cScrubs,\u201d \u201cThe Bernie Mac Show\u201d) directed the pilot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix has ordered a series adaptation of Justin Halpern\u2019s 2012 memoir \u201cI Suck at Girls,\u201d which will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,120522,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-237290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-i-suck-at-girls","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}