Yara Shahidi producing upcoming TV series based on Cole Brown’s book Photo credit: Joe Seer / Shutterstock.com Yara Shahidi continues to flex her power behind the Hollywood scenes and will help bring author Cole Brown’s debut book Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World to television. ABC Signature acquired the rights to the book through a competitive bid. Yara and her mother Keri Shahidi will develop the series for TV and executive produce via their 7th Sun Productions, as part of their overall deal with the studio, a part of Disney Television Studios. Released in 2020, the book is Brown’s personal memoir of the life of a Philadelphia kid who matured in the city’s predominantly white private schools and neighborhoods. He began writing his first book while an undergraduate at Georgetown University.