(CNN) A TV series based on the recent college admissions scandal involving actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman is in the works.
Annapurna Television will make a one-hour limited series about the scandal after optioning the rights to the upcoming book "Accepted" by Wall Street Journal reporters Melissa Korn and Jen Levitz.
The book details the criminal conspiracy to influence undergraduate admission decisions at several prominent American universities, Annapurna's Vice President of Communications Ashley Momtaheni said.
In March, a total of 50 people nationwide were charged in the largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice, officials said. The scheme involved either cheating on standardized tests or bribing college coaches and school officials to accept students as college athletes -- even if the student had never played that sport.
Loughlin has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Huffman agreed to plead guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit fraud.
D.V. DeVincentis will write the one-hour limited series. DeVincentis previously won an Emmy for "American Crime Story: The People vs. OJ Simpson." He has written and produced film scripts on his own and with others, including "High Fidelity," "Grosse Pointe Blank" and "Lay the Favorite," according to a press release from the production company.
Levitz covers general news from the newspaper's Boston bureau, and Korn has written extensively about college admissions and covered stories on higher education for the newspaper since 2011, according to their bios.
"Accepted" will be published by Portfolio, a division of Penguin Random House.