Amazon’s ‘Every Summer After’ Adaptation Swaps Showrunners: Amy B. Harris Takes Over for Leila Gerstein (Exclusive)

Amy B. Harris, the showrunner for Amazon’s Prime Video series The Wilds, is grabbing the reins for the platform’s Every Summer After adaptation, titled Every Year After, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Harris, who has an overall deal at Amazon MGM Studios, will take over for Leila Gerstein as Every Year After showrunner; Gerstein has exited over “creative differences,” a person with knowledge of the situation said.

Reps for Gerstein did not immediately respond to THR’s request for comment.

Every Year After is based on the New York Times-bestselling novel Every Summer After by Carley Fortune. The story is told over the course of six years and a week in the (real) quintessential lake town Barry’s Bay.

“It’s a romantic, nostalgic story of first loves and the people and choices that mark us forever,” Amazon says. Barry’s Bay is in rural Ontario, where Fortune spent much of her youth.

Under her overall deal, Harris develops and supervises (and sometimes showruns) new adaptation projects across all genres. In addition to The Wilds, Harris also developed and executive produced The Carrie Diaries (the Sex and the City prequel series), and wrote and produced on the OG Sex and the City. Additional credits also include The Comeback, Gossip Girl and Designated Survivor.

Fortune also executive produces the adaptation of her novel, as will Lindsey Liberatore, Amy Rardin and John Stephens; Gerstein is no longer listed among the EPs. Fortune has also written the books One Golden Summer, This Summer Will Be Different, Meet Me at the Lake and Every Summer After — a whole lot of summer/lake fare, though none of those novels are intertwined. That may change, however, with Fortune’s fifth book, which she is currently writing. A theoretical second season of Every Year After may be pulled from the forthcoming (and currently untitled) novel. Might we suggest… Every Year After?

Every Summer After has sold more than one million copies and is huge on BookTok; it was a New York Times Bestseller for 14 weeks.

Before becoming a novelist, Fortune was a journalist and and an editor at Canadian publications The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Toronto Life and Refinery29 Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University.