‘Flat Earth’ TV Series in the Works at Vice Studios From Debut Novelist Anika Jade Levy (EXCLUSIVE)

A TV series adaptation of Anika Jade Levy‘s critically acclaimed debut novel, “Flat Earth,” is in the works at Vice Studios with Levy as co-creator.

Published by Catapult Books in the US and Little, Brown in the UK in November 2025, “Flat Earth” is described as “a wry, sharply observed portrait of female ambition in New York at a moment when attention spans are at an all-time low and dopamine tolerance is at an all-time high.”

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Per the “Flat Earth” synopsis provided by Vice Studios, the story “follows two desperate young women—best friends Avery and Frances—as they navigate friendship, rivalry, obsession, and survival in a city that perennially produces young, hot, brilliant women with curatorial level taste and then discards them when they’ve aged out of the proverbial pleated skirt. At the center of the show is Frances’s experimental documentary, Flat Earth, which takes the girls on a cross-country road trip, where red America and blue America begin to look like different brands of the same competing hallucination. As Frances ascends in the art world, Avery flails financially and emotionally — and the nationwide Adderall shortage isn’t helping. She dates men who hate her, including a liberal law professor twice her age and a reactionary young artist, before eventually taking a job, out of desperation, at a right-wing dating app called Patriarchy and sliding into a series of increasingly transactional relationships. As Frances becomes pregnant, famous and impossible to ignore, Avery unravels, and the friendship at the center of the story begins to fracture: after all, they can’t both be the voice of their generation.”

No additional details about the project, including Levy’s co-creator on the “Flat Earth” TV series, are currently available.

“Flat Earth” joins a growing lineup of projects at the Amy Powell-led Vice Studios, including “Gangs of London,” which is currently in production on Season 4, an upcoming adaptation of the “Payday” video game franchise, the Saoirse Ronan-starring feature film “Bad Apples,” and new TV series “Atomic,” inspired by the non-fiction book “Atomic Bazaar.”

“’Flat Earth’ is fearless, biting, and darkly funny,” Vice Studios president Amy Powell said. “This is exactly the kind of bold, singular storytelling we want to champion, and we’re excited to help bring Anika’s world to a wider audience.”

“’Flat Earth’ is a story about ambition, friendship, stimulant abuse, and surviving the attention economy,” Levy said. “Vice has a high tolerance for risk and knows audiences are smarter than they’re often treated. I’m thrilled to bring this world to television with a team that understands both its satire and its emotional stakes.”

The founding editor of Forever Magazine and a writing program teacher at Columbia University, Levy is a contributor at Playboy whose work has also appeared in GQ, The Paris Review Online, Vogue, Interview Magazine, NYLON, Flaunt, and more. Levy was recently named as a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree.

Levy is repped by Inkwell, Range Media Partners, WME (Sylvie Rabineau for TV and Michael Mungiello for lit) and Yorn Levine Barnes Krintzman Rubenstein Kohner Endlich & Gellman.