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In its first major sale this year, Jerry Bruckheimer Television is staying closer to its reality hit The Amazing Race than its stable of crime procedurals. ABC has given the company and Warner Bros. TV a put pilot commitment for an untitled hourlong project based on the blog and the book The Lost Girls.
In 2006, friends Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett and Amanda Pressner, who had been climbing the corporate ladder of Manhattan media, left their jobs, boyfriends, apartments and everything familiar behind to embark on a year-long search for adventure and inspiration. They chronicled their journeying across four continents and more than a dozen countries on theirwebsite, 
LostGirlsWorld.com, and later turned that into a travel memoir published by HarperCollins in May. Ildy Modrovich, who previously worked on Bruckheimer TV’s CSI: Miami and Eleventh Hour, is writing the adaptation and will executive produce the project with Bruckheimer and Jonathan Littman. KristieAnne Reed is co-executive producing.
The Lost Girls project, which draws parallels to another female-centered travel memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, is a major genre departure for Bruckheimer TV, which has built its successful business on procedurals. It also reunites the company with ABC where it produced the series The Forgotten last season.
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You had me scared there for a moment–I thought Bruckheimer was adapting Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s graphic novel series of the same name!
Alternate Title: “When Girls Decide To Shirk Responsibility and Whore It Up”
OMG, what a Neanderthal response!
Come to think of it, why is it when a man takes off on a journey, it’s called an adventure, but when a woman does it, she’s “lost”?
Shame it isn’t a female version of THE LOST BOYS, where the girls date a bunch of jerks then end up eating them for dinner.
Ugh, “The Lost Girls?” Why does this already annoy me? Hope I’m wrong.
No way — a series about young attractive, affluent white women saying ‘to hell with it’ and grabbing life by the balls? Sounds totally original.
This seems like the female version of, Three For Tahiti, that came out around ’65 and was the true story of Jay Carlisle, (had his own seat on the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange), Don “Muk” McCallum, (successful fishing rod salesman), and Hugh Kelley, (an attorney), who chucked it all in smog town and Newport Beach and jumped at the opportunity that Kelley had discovered on Moorea and built the Bali Hai hotel there and subsequent hotels on other islands.
Babboon.
Crap – I thought this was the adventures of pre-teens Kate, Sun, Claire, Juliet, etc. on a mysterious island.
As usual, originality abounds in Hollywood. Perhaps they forgot to check the box office for Eat. Pray, Love before they decided to move forward with this.
Wait, I thought Lil Wayne’ went on this trip with these uppity women. Now that is TV I would watch!
You go girls! Finally some great TV, about people we can care about! You’re an inspiration!
really, this sold? i’d rather watch a show about the boyfriends they left and the amount of fun they had without these girls. i’d call it: the return of our lives.
Sounds similar…..
Eat, Pray, Barf!
Eat, pray, barf is right. Really!? How about lost girls do something like volunteer at Mother Teresa’s orphanage in India? – at least they would be doing something with their selfish – me, me, and more me – lives!
Anne, read the book. THEY DID, IN KENYA!! Have you????????
finally littman and company decide to do something other than the drab, same old story crime drama they have done dozens of – instead, now, they’re doing something even more vomit worthy.
What a piece of junk! So 3 affluent white girls dump all responsibility, live off their ample savings, and go globe trotting & whorin’.
This is what we want to hold up as art?
Sounds like some of you gentlemen are feeling jealous you can’t do the same (reinvent your lives that is).
Those women earned their money, why shouldn’t they go spend it any way they please. And who said they’re shirking responsibility? They’re taking responsibility for their own happiness. And that’s better than sitting in front of your computer spouting bitter blog posts and feeling sorry for yourself but not actually doing anything about it.
I for one am looking forward to it.
Amen, Annie! Sounds like everyone else is just jealous or unhappy with their own lives. These girls seem wonderful. The book was positive, exciting, and motivating. I am looking forward to seeing it as well.
What amazes me about the obviously envious people with nothing more than hateful and uneducated comments, is the fact that none of them know that these women are NOT affluent (unless you consider living like the average American “affluent”)or even remotely uppity. These are three women who had what it takes, in the form of courage, to take a chance and go after a dream. Unlike most of those who posted here, they decided to NOT let life pass them by; to NOT become bitter by an uneventful existence. What is even more amazing is the fact that those who posted negatively (who OBVIOUSLY did NOT read the book)are ignorant to the fact that these women actually made a difference in the world during their travels. They changed the lives of women in African villages, helped in areas where most of the inhabitants have never had a clear drink of water or seen a book. The only thing this trip took was courage, not money. FYI, they did not have VAST savings nor are they trust fund babies. THey did NOT stay at Ritz-Carltons or Four Seasons, they stayed in hostels and the same tiny villages where they actually made contibutions to humanity. They are young women who decided that settling and serving their men was not an option. It’s a shame more young women don’t have what it takes to not settle and go after what they all REALLY want, an identity. Jealousy will only tear you apart inside folks. Try making a difference in the lives of others much less fortunate than you before making idiotic comments. For the record, they didn’t “whore it up”. Funny how if these were three guys the focus would be on the good they did and their “conquests”. Women still have a LONG way to go in our sexist and envious society. Hooray for these women. They’ve got more “balls” than the men and subservient women who have nothing better to do than spew negativity on anything positive.
Couldn’t have said it better. Shorter, maybe. But better, no.
I just finished reading the book and loved it! These girls have a lot of courage. I admire them tremendously! All these haters on here obviously did not read the book. I look forward to a show based on their journeys. As a 40 year old, I also did some traveling before ‘settling down’ into life. I recommend it to everyone! Now, I’m going to check out their blogs and read more of what they’ve been up to since returning to New York…really wanted to see Jen reunite with Mark in Bangkok!