singer mariah carey is making a television show with empire showrunner lee daniels who produced her 2009 movie preciousthe all i want for christmas is you hitmaker is planning to bring her life story to television through an eightpart series reports the sourcethe singer who released the meaning of mariah carey last year shared an update with z100 with host garrett vogel who asked if she would ever consider doing a musicalcarey said we did the book and we are getting it together im working with my friend lee daniels and we are talking about the adaptation of my book i would rather do that thats why we wrote the book first broadway is a great thing i just want to do somethinghowever she said a musical was less likely noting the project was probably going to be a television showshe added lee is probably going to hear this and kill me but its probably going to be an eightpart seriesthe without you singer emphasised the importance of the show being gritty grimy beautiful specular and realshe said i need it to be gritty grimy and beautiful spectacular and realin the book the we belong together singer was incredibly frank about her life including detailing the abuse she witnessed as a childher memoir read by the time i was a toddler i had developed the instincts to sense when violence was coming as though i was smelling rain i could tell when adult screaming had reached a certain pitch and velocity that meant i should take covercarey said the pending project was so difficult now because of the ongoing pandemic and the ensuing problems but that the paperback was due to hit shelves soonshe said its so difficult now because of covid and we dont know whats going on first things first i wrote my memoir last year and now its coming out in paperback