From The Root: Terry McMillan Confirmed ‘Waiting to Exhale Is Going to be a TV Series’… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now!

It’s time to exhale because the long wait for a continuation of Waiting to Exhale is here! But it’s not the previously discussed feature film sequel; it’s a different format altogether.

Terry McMillan, who wrote the 1992 novel Waiting to Exhale, has confirmed that a TV series based on her book and the subsequent film is in the works. The 1995 film of the same name starred Whitney Houston (Savannah), Angela Bassett (Bernadine), Loretta Devine (Gloria), and Lela Rochon (Robin) as the leading ladies whose lives we followed through dating, family and more.

“So, Waiting to Exhale is going to be a TV series,” McMillan confirmed on Twitter on Thursday. “Produced by Lee Daniels [from Empire]. Attica Locke [from When They See Us, Little Fires Everywhere] and Tembi Locke [from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, NCIS) are writing. Anthony Hemingway [from American Crime Story, Underground] will direct. I lucked out.”