Wells have bottoms, as it turns out.
So when yours runs dry, do you sit around and cry about it and try to scrape the bottom completely bare? Hell no. You march your arse over to someone else’s well and start scooping water from there like you’re king shit.
At least, that’s what you do when you’re in the US TV industry.
The network formerly known as ABC Family is undergoing a massive rebranding, reemerging from the ashes of S Club 7 in Miami and Kyle XY as Freeform.
Part of that rebranding means a giant new slate of original programming, which the network lifted the lid on overnight.
Amongst the many shows contained in it (seriously, they’ve gone boonta), is a fully-fledged, top-to-bottom remake of the highly beloved UK series Misfits. Because borrowing someone else’s successful idea is always way easier than thinking up your own.
And when we say top-to-bottom remake, we absolutely mean it. Wrap your eyes around the series’ description:
“A drama based on a hit British series, a group of twenty-somethings are exposed to a mysterious chemical, and subsequently develop peculiar superpowers.”
But before you heave whatever heavy object you can find at your computer screens in protest, there is a slight shred of hope.
Attached to the project is the creative pairing of Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who will serve as executive producers on the project.
If those names sound familiar, you’re not mistaken. Schwartz and Savage co-developed a little series called Gossip Girl back in 2007. Schwartz also co-created Chuck, and got his big break in the industry back in 2003 when he created a little-watched cult series called The OC. You may have heard of it.
Elsewhere in Freeform‘s slate of productions is a new sitcom from the Lonely Island gang entitled Alone Together, which will see the trio of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer back together to produce a show centring on “two misfits from different backgrounds try to make their way into the vain and status-obsessed culture of Los Angeles. Along the way, they find salvation in their male/female, strictly platonic friendship.”
And for the maybe 3 of you who watched Greek, there’s a TV movie revival coming for the cancelled series, in which “the characters from Greek return to Cypress Rhodes University for their five-year reunion.” So uh, yay for Greek.
No timeline for any of the new projects is known at this stage, but you can get all the info on the huge range of new shows coming over at The Hollywood Reporter.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter.
Photo: Misfits UK.
