I never read R.L. Stine's Goosebumps books, even though I was a kid when they became popular, but I did read the author's series of novels that started with The Babysitter in 1989 and continued with The Babysitter II in 1991, The Babysitter III in 1993, and The Babysitter IV in 1995. I already loved HALLOWEEN by the time the first book was published, so of course I was interested in reading a different horror story that centered on a babysitter. The first book (buy it HERE) introduced readers to
Jenny Jeffers, a sixteen-year-old girl who takes a babysitting job for a child named Donny. While babysitting, she gets menacing phone calls from someone and finds a threatening note in her backpack.
The three sequels then followed Jenny through other ups and downs in her life, and I always felt that at least the first book deserved to get a film adaptation. Now our friends over at Bloody Disgusting have been informed that an adaptation is finally in the works, and it's going to bring the concept of The Babysitter to television.
Lookout Entertainment has revealed that they are working with Chernin Entertainment to develop a series based on R.L. Stine's The Babysitter novels.
I have been a fan of these stories for over twenty-five years, so I'm looking forward to seeing how this series will bring Jenny Jeffers and all her troubles to the screen.