The Amazon series adaptation of the Sunny Hostin novel “Summer on the Bluffs” has taken a step forward, with Norman Vance Jr. boarding the project as showrunner. It remains in development.

Vance will executive produce the series alongside Hostin and Regina Jansen of Sunny Hostin Productions. 20th Television will executive produce, with Amazon MGM Studios producing. Octavia Spencer had previously been attached as an EP but is no longer involved in the show.
Variety exclusively reported that “Summer on the Bluffs” was in development at Amazon back in 2023. The logline for the show states:

“Amelia Vaux Tanner has lived an amazing life. Dubbed ‘The Witch of Wall Street’ when she was one of the first Black women on the floor of the stock exchange, she married a prominent civil rights attorney and built her dream home on the bluffs of Martha’s Vineyard. Now Ama, as she is affectionately known, is ready to pass along not only her beloved Vineyard home, Chateau Laveau, but also her secrets. Perry, Olivia, and Billie grew up as close as sisters under Ama’s godmotherly guidance. Ama made sure they never lacked for anything. Now grown into beautiful, successful, hard-working professionals, each woman wonders who will be gifted the house—and why, exactly, did Ama come into their lives in the first place?”

Vance previously created the Disney series “Saturdays.” He most recently worked as a consulting producer on the critically-acclaimed Netflix series “Forever,” which is itself a series adaptation of the Judy Blume novel of the same name from Mara Brock Akil. His other TV credits include “Swagger” at Apple TV, “Our Kind of People” at Fox, “Queen Sugar” at OWN, and “American Soul” at BET.

He is repped by Heroes and Villains and Goodman Genow.

Source: https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/sunny-hostin-summer-on-the-bluffs-series-norman-vance-jr-1236650873/