‘Icebreaker’ Series Greenlit at Netflix, ‘Gossip Girl’ Alum Amanda Lasher Set as Showrunner With Alex Cooper Producing (EXCLUSIVE)

By Joe Otterson

Joe Otterson

TV Reporter

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Netflix has found its “sex on ice” series.

The streamer has ordered a series version of the Hannah Grace novel “Icebreaker, Variety has learned exclusively. Netflix exec Jinny Howe revealed the news onstage during a fireside chat with Variety‘s executive editor for TV, Michael Schneider, at the BANFF World Media Festival.

Amanda Lasher and Jade Bartlett are both attached to write and executive produce the adaptation, with Lasher also set to serve as showrunner. Alex Cooper, Matt Kaplan, and Mina Lefevre will executive produce via Unwell Productions (“Love Overboard,” “Hannah Montana” 20th Anniversary Special).

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