Netflix To Be Home Of Selena Gomez’s ’13 Reasons Why’ Series

By Rosemary Vega on October 29, 2015@rosevega

Netflix has provided a straight-to-series order for a 13 episode mini series based on the novel, “13 Reasons Why.” Playwright Brian Yorkey will write the pilot. Selena Gomez, along with Kristel Laiblin and Gomez’s mother Mandy Teefey, will executive produce. Gomez will not star in the series, Variety reports.

Selena Gomez took to Instagram to share her excitement, writing “I’ll just be freaking out over here.”

That was the day we sold our show to @netflix ???? I'll just be freaking out over here. Congratulations to the whole team! #13ReasonsWhy

A photo posted by Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) on Oct 29, 2015 at 4:09pm PDT

“13 Reasons Why” is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Jay Asher. After Hannah Baker commits suicide, she leaves her classmate Clay a box of tapes. The tapes, which have instructions to be passed along to other classmates, reveal how twelve of her peers played a role in her death and the thirteen reasons she took her life.

No premiere date for “13 Reasons Why” has been announced.