Netflix has confirmed limited series Weather Girl is in development at A24. Amanda Burrell’s new production house Ginger and Team Downey also attached.

The series is based on Brian McDermott’s one-actor play of the same name, with the show’s star, Julia McDermott reprising the lead role she performed on stage and also producing.

Set in a wildfire-ravaged California, the show will follow career-driven television weather girl Stacey, whose polished on-air persona masks her deep anguish over the destruction consuming her hometown. After reporting from a burning home with a family of five inside, she begins to spiral. The plot intertwines fears of the climate crisis and a strange reunion with her mother, who abandoned her long ago.

Brian Watkins will be showrunner, writer and exec producer, and will direct the first episode. The executive producers are Ginger’s Burrell and Team Downey’s Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey.