Man, the originality. Let’s see.
ABC has ordered a pilot for Once Upon a Time. The project, from Lost executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, centers on a woman with a troubled past who is drawn into a small town in Maine where the magic and mystery of Fairy Tales just may be real. (Comic series Fables.)
The CW has ordered up Cooper and Stone, about two smart young female detectives on Chicago’s North Side who are best friends, equally adept at discussing fashion, music, pop culture as they are solving homicides. (Gilmore Detectives)
ABC has always ordered a pilot forWork It, centering on two out-of-work car salesmen who realize that it is now a woman’s world and decide that in order to find work again and succeed they are going to have to dress as women to get jobs as pharmaceuticals reps. Yes, a remake of Bosom Buddies.
I actually am always kind of fascinated by premises seemingly designed to have no shelf like. Let’s say Work It was a hit. (I know…just pretend.) Really? The show’s going to revolve around guys cross-dressing for five or six years?
There was a show called Cursed, it was Steven Webber’s follow-up to Wings. In it he was actually cursed (by a gypsy, nonetheless, if I remember correctly), and had really bad luck. That was the premise, and it actually made to the air. Only then did somebody seem to figure out there was nowhere to go with that, and so it was instantly changed to a standard sitcom imaginatively named The Steven Webber Show.
Still went off the air in like a month, though.
