The upcoming adaptation of The Baby-Sitters Club has its first bit of casting news, tapping Alicia Silverstone and Mark Feuerstein as the mother and step-father of Kristy Thomas.
Netflix announced back in February that it would be bringing The Baby-Sitters Club back to the small screen, describing the show as “a contemporary live-action original series that will follow the friendship and babysitting adventures of five best friends in Stoneybrook, Connecticut.”
We haven’t had much casting news since then, though we do know that the show has since started production in Vancouver on its 10-episode first season.
However, while we don’t know who will play the group of five friends — Kristy Thomas, Mary Anne Spier, Claudia Kishi, Stacey McGill, and Dawn Schafer — we now have our first bit of casting news regarding the adults featured in the pages of The Baby-Sitters Club.
According to the Deadline, Alicia Silverstone — best known for her iconic turn as teen queen Cher Horowitz 90’s classic Clueless — will be playing Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer, mother to self-described tomboy and Baby-Sitters Club president, Kristy Thomas.
Netflix also announced that it had cast Mark Feuerstein as Watson Brewer, described as the love interest to Alicia Silverstone’s Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer and (future?) step-father to Kristy Thomas.
The Baby-Sitters Club, which is one of the most successful children’s book series ever, has over 200 books with more than 180 million copies in print.
The upcoming Netflix 10-episode series will be the third time the popular series has been adapted for the screen, as the book series previously had another 13-episode TV show that aired in the early ’90s and a 1995 film starring Rachael Leigh Cook and Larisa Oleynik.
Netflix’s The Baby-Sitters Club will have Glow’s Rachel Shukert as showrunner, while Broad City’s Lucia Aniello as director and executive producer. Ann M. Martin, the author of the series, will likewise serve as series producer.