TV series based on punk legend Viv Albertine's memoirs in the works

As Variety reports, the TV series will be produced by Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley’s Number 9 Films and Rachael Horovitz’s West Fourth Films.

The punk legend has written two memoirs - Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, which was published in 2014, and 2018's To Throw Away Unopened.

Albertine says of the project, "I’m so happy that Rachael, Elizabeth and Stephen are bringing my books to the screen. Right from the start they were sensitive to the extremely personal nature of the work and I knew the books were in the hands of producers with integrity. Their vision is perfectly in tune with the work, they understand the subject and the times, I can’t wait for the project to get started and to see all the characters in my story come to life."

Karlsen, Woolley and Horovitz add, "What an exciting and exhilarating prospect to re-explore a time when music, fashion, political ideologies and sexuality were turned on their heads. So beautifully evoked alongside personal insights and frank reflections of an extraordinary woman’s life in Albertine’s two incredible memoirs."

They continue, "Nothing that has happened before or since can match the explosion that was '70s London Punk, and Viv Albertine helped pack the dynamite, place the detonator and light the fuse. The Slits forged the soundtrack to a gender-bending, iconic cultural revolution and guitarist Viv Albertine was right in the thick of it. She helped create an uninhibited new attitude, a unique musical language and a DIY aesthetic that invaded and ingrained itself into the mainstream."