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EXCLUSIVE: After a year in development, ABC’s Charlie’s Angels reboot is headed to pilot production. The Sony TV-produced project was originally set up at ABC with a pilot commitment last November with Josh Friedman as a writer. It didn’t go to pilot stage and, after the upfronts, it was put in redevelopment with new writers, Smallville creators/executive producers Al Gough and Miles Millar. Back then, it was one of 5 projects put on fast-track development under previous ABC president Steve McPherson. After McPherson’s successor Paul Lee took over in August, there has been chatter that he liked Gough and Millar’s script. Top casting director John Papsidera recently was quietly tapped to start some exploratory search for the leads. The project just released an official breakdown and I hear it has locked in Miami as location for the shoot, eyed for January. Gough and Millar are executive producing with Leonard Goldberg, executive producer of the original series, Drew Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen. The three also produced the two Charlie’s Angels movies that starred Barrymore. So far, Charlie’s Angels has followed closely the successful reboot of another popcorn 1970s series, Hawaii Five-0, which also went through two cycles of development until its second script by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Peter Lenkov was picked up to pilot. It went on to become a series, which was recently picked up for a full season. Now let the guessing begin who the new TV angels will be?
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Lindsay Price, Lizzy Caplan, and Amanda Seyfried.
So there are no original ideas for new shows being pitched anywhere across Hollywood? Really?
Katie Cassidy. Katie Cassidy. Katie Cassidy…
She is underrated, single-handedly made “Melrose Place” 2.0 watchable, and is good in everything she has been in so far. Cast her ASAP…
As for the other “Angels”, Odette Yustman might be good.
IDK about Katie Cassidy. Have you been catching her on Gossip Girl lately? I’ll make some allowances for the way her character is being written and for the general improbability of Gossip Girl to begin with, but from what I can see, I would hardly call her the savior of anything.
She is terrible on Gossip Girl and that is saying something.
She’s the whole reason I decided to watch Gossip Girl again after sitting out last season. You obviously don’t have an eye for talent. Katie Cassidy will be a huge film star and headline rom coms one day. All these reboots have had bland cerebral leads. Katie is someone America will respond to once she’s on something that reaches a broad audience.
Katie Cassidy doesn’t seem to be on “Gossip Girl” by her own choice. She was trapped in her “Melrose Place” contract up until the very end, even though the network knew they were canceling it. She missed out on pilot season, and rumor has it, she was originally considered for the “Charlie’s Angels” pilot but couldn’t get released from The CW.
“Gossip Girl” itself is a bore and hasn’t been good for 2 seasons. The writers don’t even know what to do with Blair or Serena and you think they are going to know what to do with Nate’s new love interest with a secret past #3? That show is a sinking ship.
Katie Cassidy is good in nearly everything she has been in. She was good on Supernatural. She was a good “Final Girl” in the horrid “Black X-Mas”. She was good on “Harper’s Island”. And in the “Nightmare on Elm Street” remake, once her character dies, you couldn’t care less about Rooney Mara’s “Nancy” since she is uninteresting.
Again, she was the only saving grace about “Melrose Place”. Had the CW cast stronger actors opposite her instead of people like Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, the show would have lasted longer.
Give her a chance to star in something more high profile and mainstream and she will undoubtedly shine.
I agree about Katie Cassidy. She’s HOT HOT HOT!
She’d make a perfect Angel.
Lindsay Price looks way older than her 33 years.
Lizzy Kaplan doesn’t want to be committed to a TV show.
Amanda Seyfried is always employed as an actress as she is in demand and has put TV behind her.
yes, yes, and yes.
Lizzy is committed to an HBO that she is developing along with Will Ferrell’s company, so that’s not entirely true.
The Josh Friedman draft was excellent… so of course ABC ditched it.
Do TV revivals EVER work? I don’t think so. TV audiences want something new, not tired retreads. (See “Knight Rider,” “90210,” “Melrose Place,” “Bionic Woman,” “The Fugitive,” “The Prisoner,” “Dragnet,” “Twilight Zone”). Features are different. You see it once for two hours and you’re done. Series are weekly commitments. It’s like going back to an old relationship. You’re curious to see what they look like, but you don’t want to commit to them. People want new relationships.
And no matter how much CBS spins it, “Hawaii Five-0″ is not doing well. I believe it’s dropped every week it’s been on, and it’s doing much worse than former timeslot occupant, “CSI Miami.”
From MediaWeek:
“Hawaii Five-O (CBS) – Mon. 10 p.m.
Viewers: 10.94 million (#24), A18-49: 2.9/ 8 (#27t)
Grade: B-
Given the hype and lead-in support from Mike & Molly, results should be better for this revival.”
And why do the networks only remake one-hours? Where are the remakes of “Cheers,” maybe starring that cute kid from “Outsourced”? Or how about a new “Mary Tyler Moore” with the comedy stylings of Cobie Smulders? I feel it’s about time for a new “Seinfeld,” too.
I guess they don’t have to remake comedy shows, just recycle the jokes and scenarios — Friends ripped off jokes from lots of shows, Seinfeld in particular.
um, 90210 is one of the best shows on the air now.
Melrose Place reboot was cancelled way too soon, considering the potential.
The writers on 90210 have done a great job with separating it from the original. Now it’s no longer about the old characters popping up. Also Annalynne McCord has grown on me and I love the character she plays.
I can only hope this comment was made in jest. Being an alum of the original series, I simply had to start watching the new one to satisfy my curiosity. The acting was so grotesquely awful that all this did was satisfy my need to laugh out loud… hard; which I highly doubt was their intention.
I can taste vomit in my mouth.
That’s not vomit, it’s “ratings gold”!
I am going to give ABC, Drew Barrymore, Nancy Juvonen (sp?) and company the benefit of the doubt.
The Hawaii 5-0 reboot is legitimately doing well (even *IF* Alex Loughlin (sp?) is more wooden than a damp tree branch during a monsoon)
I think this could do well also.
As for casting, they should cast late 20′s early to mid 30s.
I was thinking:
Naomie Harris (28 Days Later), Rosario Dawson, and Lizzy Caplan
But whoever they get, i’m sure it will work.
Don’t put just for white women in it. Yawn snooze…..BORING
Christina Applegate, Gabrielle Union and Rachel Bilson..
Love Applegate and think she needs a sitcom on CBS that isn’t a “Single Camera” comedy. Gabrielle Union already tried TV too many times and it just doesn’t work for her. And Rachel Bilson is not believable as a kick ass crime fighter because she is soooooo skinny. She needs to get back to her OC weight. Also I think she is working with Josh Schwartz on a show.
I only support this if the characters are the daughters of the characters from the CHARLIE’S ANGELS movies. And Matt LeBlanc should make frequent guest appearances as whatever character he played in the first movie.
You are totally right about Katie Cassidy. She was great on Supernatural.
Eliza Dushku, Summer Glau, and…oh wait that’s Fox’s tanked Friday night star list from 2009. I wish though. Would love to see at least one unknown though.
Leave Charlie’s Angels” alone. They should NOT remake it. I vote for its failure.
Tracie Thoms!
Katie Cassie!
Jessica Lucia!
And if the ratings of this new Charlie Angels are bad they can always try to relocate it in Hawaii.
Just one more piece of evidence that the broadcast nets have completely lost all creativity. If it ain’t “reality” it is a “re-imagining”. Some work, but most don’t. Viewers tune in for curiosity more than anything else, but generally don’t stay more than a handful of eps.
I can see ABC mining more “classic” shows for reboots. Get ready for “The Fall Guy”, “Love American Style”, “Fantasy Island”, and Love Boat”, among others.
Yuck!
ABC already tried rebooting “Fantasy Island” in 1998 with Malcom McDowell as Mr. Rourke and Barry Sonnenfeld behind the camera. It lasted less than a season.
UPN tried Love Boat too…it lasted two seasons with Robert Urich at the wheel…
Lindsey Lohan, Paris Hilton and a Kardasian (any one).
Only this time make it a reality series.
Speaking of reality series…….didn’t Nancy Juvonen produce “Tough Love” on VH1 with Drew Barrymore? What about that blonde girl from the show? Not the southern one but the other one… And the brunette (Jessica, Jessi) was cool too. I’d like to see what would happen if they cast REALITY stars as the 3 angels……lol
Next up on the expensive failures list …
Emma Stone!
Looks like the new ABC brass is already looking like the old brass…
I cannot believe they are going with another remake.
Knight Rider , V ; Bionic Woman…
And now , the BIG and expensive Hawaii 50 is getting lower viewers than CSI Miami in the same spot last year.
Hawaii 50 has been dropping viewers each week since the premiere.
I think it is time to finish with silly remakes!!!
Cher
Bettie White
Oprah
Now that, I’d watch.
ME!! Kelli Stoner
The same guys behind the Hawaii Five-O remake? Bad idea!