Alicia Silverstone joins The Baby-Sitters Club

Actors Alicia Silverstone and Mark Feuerstein have been roped in for the upcoming live-action reboot of The Baby-Sitters Club.

In the series adaptation by Netflix, Silverstone will essay the character of Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer, the mother of Kristy Thomas and love interest of Watson Brewer, played by Feuerstein.

Based on Ann M Martin's best-selling book series, The Baby-Sitters Club is a contemporary original series that will follow the friendship and babysitting adventures of five best friends — Kristy Thomas, Mary Anne Spier, Claudia Kishi, Stacey McGill, and Dawn Schafer — in Stoneybrook, Connecticut.

The Baby-Sitters Club highlights female friendship, entrepreneurialism and empowerment.