The 'Baby-Sitters Club' Reboot at Netflix Finds Its Headlining Actors

Netflix is all set to present the reboot of Baby-Sitters Club, which will be a contemporary take on the Ann M, Marti's best-selling book series. And now, according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter, Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) and Mark Feuerstein (Royal Pains) will star in the Netflix dramedy.

Picked up straight to series in February, the 10-episode half-hour dramedy follows the friendship and babysitting adventures of five best friends — Kristy Thomas, Mary Anne Spier, Claudia Kishi, Stacey McGill and Dawn Schafer — in Stoneybrook, Conn.

Silverstone follows up her role in TV Land-turned-Paramount Network series American Woman and will play Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer, the mother of Kristy Thomas and the love interest of Watson Brewer (Feuerstein). Production on the single-camera family series has begun in Vancouver.

The Walden Media-produced series hails from exec producer New Line Cinema and DreamWorks president of production Michael De Luca (The Social Network). Rachel Shukert (Netflix's Jenji Kohan favorite GLOW) will serve as showrunner. Broad City's Lucia Aniello will also exec produce and direct. Author Martin will produce.

The series will tackle themes around divorce, racism and belonging in a series geared for kids, teens and adults. The franchise was hailed by The New Yorker in a 2016 essay as "feminist legacy."

Silverstone's credits include Batman & Robin, '90s staple Clueless and The Crush. She's repped by UTA, Curtis Brown Group, Untitled Entertainment and Gang Tyre.