Brooks Nader and her sisters are heading back to Hulu and Freeform.
Love Thy Nader, the reality series that follows the Sports Illustrated model and her sisters Mary Holland, Grace Ann and Sarah Jane, has been renewed for a second season by the streamer.
However, Deadline understands that the series is searching for a new showrunner after Rachel Tung exited the post.
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Love Thy Nader premiered on Freeform on August 26 with the whole season dropping on Hulu the following day. It follows the sisters in New York City, set against the backdrop of Soho lofts and fashion campaigns, exploring the question of what it means to “make it” in the city, having originally come from the Louisiana bayou.
The series explores the group moving in together, launching a fashion line, go on vacation in Miami, deal with health problems and startup issues and breakups.
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Brooks Nader has, in particular, been in the papers following her split from Dancing with the Stars’ Gleb Savchenko. She has also been romantically linked with a lot of men including Tom Brady, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ Dakota Mortensen and Shaun White as well as two tennis stars – Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz during the U.S. Open
The second season will premiere in 2026. Disney is currently in talks to find a showrunner to oversee the season.
Season one was showrun by Rachel Tung, who was showrunner on Hulu’s Taste The Nation with Padma Lakshmi and has exec produced series including Wayne Brady: The Family Remix and MTV’s Deliciousness.
It is produced by Walt Disney Television Alternative in association with Kimmelot and Smoking Baby Productions.
Love Thy Nader had an unusual ally in the first place – James ‘Babydoll’ Dixon. The manager, who reps the likes of Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, told the Naders they should do their own reality show. “He’s a legendary agent in Hollywood, and he was just so entertained by us and he thought, ‘Why don’t we make this into a show’,” Brooks Nader told ABC7.Coo
Dixon exec produces alongside Kimmel and Brandon Panaligan.
The Nader sisters are repped by WME, Dixon Talent, Inc. and by Leigh Fidler, Chief Brand Officer of Nader Sisters Inc. and Co-Founder of Privy PR.
So the only female EP (on a show with a female cast) is no longer on the show? Cool, that sounds about right.
They’re looking for a production company and WME is only pushing Velvet Hammer…hmmmm
If it’s reality, why does it need a showrunner?
Ignorant question. Shows don’t just shoot themselves.
Why do documentaries need directors?