‘Long Island Compromise’ TV Series No Longer Moving Forward at Apple (EXCLUSIVE)

“Long Island Compromise” is no longer in development at Apple TV, sources tell Variety.

The series adaptation of Taffy Brodesser-Akner‘s novel is expected to be shopped around for a new home. “Long Island Compromise” had not yet received a series order from Apple, and it is not unusual for projects to fall out of development.

Apple TV and representatives for Brodesser-Akner declined to comment.

Before its publication in July 2024, “Long Island Compromise” started a Hollywood bidding war, with several studios pursuing a screen adaptation of the novel, a follow-up to Brodesser-Akner’s bestselling debut novel “Fleishman Is in Trouble.” That book was adapted into a 2022 miniseries on Hulu, for which Brodesser-Akner wrote the screenplay and was nominated for an Emmy.

“Long Island Compromise” takes place decades after a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher who is kidnapped from his home in Long Island and held for ransom. He is returned within a week, and his family moves on with their lives. But nearly 40 years later, when the family reunites, it becomes clear nobody has fully moved on from the traumatic incident.

According to the synopsis, the book spans the entirety of the Fletcher family history and confronts the mainstays of American Jewish life: “tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives’ tales, evil eyes, survival, safety, ambition, achievement, boredom, orgies, dybbuks, inheritance, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta-blockers, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.”

Brodesser-Akner was set to write the “Long Island Compromise” TV show, executive producing with Richard Plepler through his Eden Productions, which entered a five-year exclusive deal with Apple TV in January 2020, as well as Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly (of Timberman/Beverly Productions) and Susannah Grant.