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Yet another Twitter feed is taking the sitcom route via CBS. The network is developing a comedy series based on Charlie McDowell’s feed and Web site Dear Girls Above Me, about a single man who gains insight into the female mind by eavesdropping on his upstairs neighbors. The Girls feed, which has more than 34,000 followers, consists of imaginary 140-character letters McDowell writes to the party girls who live in the apartment above him in reaction to conversations he overhears. Some recent examples:
Dear GAM, Your “friend” from last night was fun, but did he need to grunt, “You like that,” over and over? It seemed pretty clear you did.
Dear Girls Above Me, “Did you hear that all these kids were rescued in Chile after being trapped in some mountain?” Miners, not minors.
Dear GAM,”I found out he’s taking me to a 3D movie! If the glasses aren’t cute I will literally die.” Just focus on not making out with air.
Girls, which has received a script commitment, follows a similar deal CBS recently inked for Shh … Don’t Tell Steve, a comedy based on a Twitter feed of a guy documenting the deeds of his immature roommate. Both Girls and Steve hail from Katalyst, the company of Twitter king Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg, and CBS TV Studios. And they both come on the heels of the promising launch of CBS’ freshman comedy $#*! My Dad Says, the first TV series based on a Twitter feed. Like $#*!, the script for Girls will be co-written by the feed’s creator, aspiring filmmaker McDowell, who will co-write with Justin Lader. And also like $#*!, which was developed with veteran comedy showrunners David Kohan and Max Mutchnick on board to supervise the script and executive produce, Tim Doyle is in negotiations to do the same on Girls. Kutcher, Goldberg and David Schiff will also executive produce. Here is a video of McDowell, son of actors Mary Steenburgen and Malcolm McDowell and step-son of Ted Danson, trying to enjoy a quiet evening while his neighbors upstairs are throwing a very noisy party.
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Speechless.
Humorless.
CBS has done the unthinkable — made me miss Becker.
ironically, that’s ted dansen’s stepson.
i can’t wait. mcdowell’s hilarious.
What was wrong with Becker? Fine show, dark, smart, fine writing staff. In today’s comedy wasteland it would look like a masterpiece, but a lot of middle-of-the-road ’90s comedies were. It was a good time.
Forget you, man, Charlie’s amazing! I can’t wait to see Pinkman come to life on TV! XD Congrats, Charlie!
Fantastic, what society definitely needs is another portrayal of women as vapid, ignorant sluts. Thanks CBS.
well if you’ve ever read the feed you would know that the girls above charlie are in fact vapid, ignorant and slutty
Don’t you already have The View for that?
you should be thanking ashton kutcher and his bozo development people over at katalyst. they wouldn’t know a well-rounded, intelligent, thoughtful portrayal of a REAL 21st century woman if it hit them over the head with a sledgehammer. truly offensive what these guys sell on a daily basis. the male characters have brains, candor, and humor and the females have…well, boobs. why people continue to make deals with these morons is beyond me.
Agree! I effin hate the Kutchernization of this culture – meaning, well, everything you stated and the rest of his crap ideas. And now Oprah wants him too? I mean, whaaa? Whenever I see someone following him or the Mrs. on twitter I immediately lose interest. Don’t know. Don’t wanna know. Don’t care.
(Yes, I know he’s not an idiot, but still.)
Well, if the spray tan fits…
maybe girls shouldn’t insist on being vapid, ignorant sluts and they wouldn’t be portrayed as such. there as several examples of smart, prudish girls out there, go watch shows and movies about them.
No.
That’s all I have to say on this.
Another horrible idea from CBS.
And now more inane Twitter feeds will be set-up with hopes of having a sitcom. Does Zucker work for CBS now? This is so idiotic that it seems like it would be his idea.
I can’t wait! It’s smart comedy, which is what we need. Charlie makes everyday conversations so hilarious!
How smart is he really? “Miners, not minors” is a direct steal from one of the great and underrated movies, GALAXY QUEST. Just sayin’.
That’s not the only stolen line, either. I’d advise CBS to have legal check the script VERY carefully.
Because people in “Galaxy Quest” are the ONLY people in the history of EVER to make the miners/minors mistake. I’m sure plenty of people said it before “Galaxy Quest” and plenty of people have said it since. Is “once bitten, twice shy” stolen from Wham!’s “Last Christmas”?
dude.. he just responds to the idiots that live above him. when they’re stupid enough to get the 2 mixed up, you can’t say he steals a line from a movie for not pointing it out. have you really looked at his whole feed, not just the snippets they put in this article?
I don’t think these were being posted with a t.v. script in mind. maybe that’s just what he thought of and honestly who cares? it’s funny and it works. it’s hardly stealing a line if it’s what he thought.
Puleeeze! Can’t stand Ashton! We are all in trouble!
I’m extremely excited for this! McDowell is the best!
Me too! DGAM makes me laugh out loud. Real comedy comes from real life, and these girls are as hilarious as they come. McDowell took Lemons and made lemonade. I applaud that.
Very excited as well! Have been a fan from the start pretty much.
I have to agree that McDowell created something pretty awesome here. I’m rooting for him that the show will go well!
I just hope the show make it to Europe, so I can actually watch it…
also that video is fake.
there’s a jump cut where the music doesn’t also jump.
there was no party going on upstairs. he just made a stupid video.
Edited and fake are two very different things. It’s definitely edited, can’t know whether it is fake or not. I prefer to believe that it isn’t.
It’s fake.
There is a jump cut where the music is continuous. Meaning that the music couldn’t have been really playing – it was added later. A jump cut tells us that time has passed, but if the music hasn’t jumped forward as well, then it is not music that was actually playing.
Get it now?
you don’t need to talk to people like they’re stupi just because you think you’re smart. WHO CARES? it was still funny.
Hey, lots of parties replay songs. Ever thought he did that on purpose so it lookked like it happenned at one time but was actually spread out over the night.
The sound quality on his camera might not have been the best, so while the party was raging upstairs, he could hear it, so he partied downstairs. Then, while editing, he realized that the music couldn’t be heard, so he added in his own to make it continuous. Get it now?
You lost me at Ashton Kutcher.
They lost me a “Twitter”, I didn’t even make it as far as Ashton Kutcher.
So very excited about this! Have loved his witty comments for months are more excited to see it in a series.
The great thing about CBS is no matter how lame the idea and how miserable the execution their audience will watch it. My theory is their viewers haven’t figured out how to use the remote control yet.
So… just because someone has a different taste in comedy than you do, they are too stupid to use a remote?? ugh, your disgusting.
It’s amazing what passes for entertainment these days.
sellout… and to cbs?
you have lost a fan charlie
You mean Charlie wants to be successful and make a living for himself? The shame!
I have a very compelling series of videos while I’m on the john. I just know CBS is the place to take my revolutionary idea! Way to blaze the trail, Kinetic!
And of course hilarity ensues when you forget to put the seat down.
Get a life.
Now THERE was a good sitcom.
I think Amber makes an excellent point! One lame joke about something being gay in a movie trailer causes a huge stir and yet a new series whose entire PREMISE is based on brain-dead sluts is somehow, OK? How’s that make sense?
The sad part is that the buyers at CBS who went forward with this premise are all women. You should be ashamed of yourselves, CBS Comedy Development.
They’re women, but they are women WHO HATE WOMEN. Lots of that in television development it seems.
True that. And even though there are plenty of women in development WHO HATE WOMEN, the CBS gals are the worst. Just look at what they develop, all male shows with no shortage of sexist jokes. The one show they had with a strong female lead — OLD CHRISTINE — was practically killed at their own hands with constant time slot changes and no promotion.
If “Old Christine”‘s 5 seasons, Emmy win for Julia, and daily syndication is “killed” I’m sure a lot of shows want to die. Let’s get a hold of ourselves here people.
I hardly think that “old christine” – a whiny middle-aged wine-o that lives with her brother is really the kind of “well-rounded, intelligent, thoughtful portrayal of a REAL 21st century woman” that we’re looking for.
They’re not women… they’re WOMEN WHO HATE WOMEN. There is a difference. Seems to be a lot of that in television development. If I had their lives I might hate myself too.
Soooo excited to seen this turned into a show. I look forward to DGAM updates during my day! I sincerely hope this does well.
Are we really supposed to believe this is real? It’s totally fake and made up just to get a deal. And why why why promote the portrayal of women as airheaded tramps???? This loser is just a bully who thinks he’s funny and cool because he makes lame jokes at the expense of others. ugh.
I agree with you. This is a Bitter Guy Who Never Gets Laid spouting a bunch of b.s. It depresses and frustrates me, as a female and as someone who appreciates intelligent humor, when material that mocks woman and reduces them to party sluts — and contains a bunch of hackneyed jokes we’ve heard already (in bars, as you say) — gets a green light.
Indeed, as is also clear from some of the comments here — he either has some friends here, or he’s posting a lot of the comments himself.
It’s very hard to believe that the comments here praising him and his twitter feed are independent and genuine.
It’s a tacky show idea, from a crass, classless, talentless feed, on an inane medium — and will be run by a brain-dead clown.
The very last thing on Earth we need, is another Twitter-based show.
I agree with Dave
I think you all have a snook up your snizz, it’s just a damn tv show, there’s plenty of worse things out there than this, such as Sarah Palin’s show, and George Bush. Comedies are meant to be stupid, people enjoy stupid because it makes one feel better about themselves and their lives. Tv is meant to entertain to a wide audience, and a wide audience demands a wide set of programs aimed at each group, so shut up, and just don’t watch it if you really don’t want to
I am not Charlie Mcdowell or a personal friend of his… but I do find is twitter/facebook/website postings very funny
I don’t care if you don’t like it, but don’t bash me for liking it. I have never met Charlie, and I am not Charlie, but he does have a strong following, and you can’t take that away from him. If you haven’t read his blog yet, it’s truly hysterical, and the comments section on every post is astounding. I don’t care if you want to be rude, but just don’t be a bully.
please please please start a bitter man who never gets laid twitter feed… please… somebody DO IT please
I think that the main purpose of DGAM is to show that women are stupid and shallow! And I really don’t like how everyone has these agressive feminist reactions. Relax, it’s no big deal. It’s not making fun of women, it’s making fun of stupid and absurd remarks that people sometimes have. And the reason we like to laugh at stupidity is that it makes us feel smarter, and there’s nothing wrong about it, it’s just human nature.
Plus I don’t mind even if it’s fake (or maybe inspired by one or two sentences he heard and then he continued which “fakes”) – it’s still funny, and that’s what matters. Our generation is so obsessed about everything being authentic, original… It’s getting almost ridiculous.
Plus, did you maybe think that by creating this, Charlie is not trying to humiliate women, but to make a point? Or maybe show the world how popular it is to laugh at others to prove to our selves that we are better? He might be doing the exact opposite of what you’re accusing him.
Ok, got a bit carried away, getting all philosophical… Anyway, just wanted to say – Chill out, it’s just a TV show, nobody should take it too seriously.
Arrgh, sorry, the first sentence is supposed to be “I DON’T think…”!
No. I think you were right the first time.
yeah, you got REALLY philosophical there, Mister.
Perhaps a little philosophical, but the only comment that has made much sense so far..! I’m curious as to why everyone is reacting quite so agressively to this, and taking it quite so personally. Niether the feed or the show even imply that all women are vapid, ignorant or stupid, or that they’re stereotypes or sluts- just those ones.
So while you’re all whining about poor female representation in the media, try and think about why you care so much and, if you do care so much, make your own bloody show. It’s not like you are so incapable of representing yourself and your gender, and need a television sitcom to do it for you. How terribly vapid.
I think it’ll be funny, but then you’ll probably all accuse me of having no pride in my gender, or whatever seems to be the most fashionable feminist insult right now.
THANK YOU DifferentinEngland!! Ladies getting upset over this because it “portrays all women as vapid,” I have two things to say: 1) Try actually reading the feed. http://www.deargirlsaboveme.com It’s funnier and less insulting than you think. 2) From me to you, as one feminist woman to another, get the sand out of your vaginas and let other people smile even if you can’t. Thanks.
oh my god. Dear shitty excuse for a “feminist” in the comment above me,
I’m not going to go into why portrayal of women as vapid “slutty” idiots in the media is bad. There’s a whole school of thought called feminism that will do that for me. Please go away and read something written by an actual feminist. We’re not “taking it personally”. Seriously. Read one goddamn feminist thing. just one. please. before you call yourself a feminist again. just try it. please.
mooop, did you even read Sadie’s comment? We’re all aware that the unfair portrayal of women in the media is bad, and the reasons, in the case of this argument, are immaterial. Sadie’s point, which you have so dissappointingly missed, is that DGAM is not portraying women unfairly. Charlie is recording the insights of TWO women, and if that’s representative of our whole population, it looks like your feminist cause is shot anyway. It sounds like you take yourself pretty seriously, but do try and retract your claws. And read the site. You’re teetering on the brink of ignorant.
okay–THIS IS A MAN WHO LIVES BENEATH TWO VAPID, IGNORANT SLUTS. Sorry, they exist. if you want to take them as a representation of the entire female population, go picket outside CBS while we who know that this is funny BECAUSE the population isn’t always like this watch happily on our TV sets. You degrade yourselves.
WHY?
I bet it will be the best written show on tv.
-anonymous (but I’m gonna tell everyone it’s from me)
Hmm…
Basically, I need to start updating my status more often AND come up with witty ways to entertain Los Angeles.
Got it. Thanks Chris.
No problem. Glad I could help!
What is noteworthy about that video? This guy’s a hack.
It’s not just the video. I’m vehemently against anything Twitter-related but stumbled across this and it’s hysterical. I don’t know if it’ll make it as a TV series, but the feed itself is brilliant. Try actually reading it some time.
And for those saying it’s just another chauvenist script…there ARE girls like that and they happen to live above him. What else are you going to do to keep yourself sane?
i used to next door to a bunch of jackass, muscle head, mansluts, and would make fun of them constantly, but, I BET they would get a show about how “awesome” their lives are before I would get one about me living next door poking fun at them… oh wait… they already did: entourage, two and a half men, etc, etc. And if i did get a show i’m sure you’d all be on here commenting on how i’m just a cold, bitter, bitch or something.
Uggggggggg. Let me guess. He pokes fun of them for 25 minutes in the pilot episode and then in the last few minutes he has a chance encounter with a girl in the laundry room “who could be the one”. We know she’s one of the girls from upstairs but he doesn’t. Brilliant!
and cash those checks quickly. CBS will have to stop those big bang theory overruns eventually and people will realize no one is watching the first twitter show &$#* My Dad Says.
Don’t worry folks I doubt these shit shows will make it to air. And if they do, they’ll soon go away just like Blank My Dad Says is going to with non existent ratings.
Mmmmm, just like “Three’s COmpany”. Except without, you know, the COMEDY.
Sounds craptacular.