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Writing duo Patti Carr and Lara Olsen have landed their first showrunner gig – they have signed on to executive produce and run the CW’s drama 90210 next year.Carr and Olsen will succeed Rebecca Sinclair who recently left the teen soap, which has been renewed for next season. Once again, the CW went to the talent bench of its own series to recruit a new showrunner for 90210. Carr and Olsen were most recently co-executive producers on the CW’s praised but short-lived Life Unexpected, while Sinclair was a co-executive producer on Gilmore Girls. Carr and Olsen, repped by CAA and attorney Patti Felker, started off in comedy, with stints on such sitcoms as Reba and ‘Til Death, before segueing to hourlong series, including serving as co-executive producers on Private Practice. The two landed a pilot order in 2009 for their adaptation of the U.K. series Ny-Lon at CBS.TV Editor Nellie Andreeva - tip her here.
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Would have loved Diablo Cody. Looks good, just hope they keep the consistently fun tone that’s been established this year.
Diablo Cody? You’re serious?
Yup. She liked the original and it would be interesting to watch. I have fun watching 90210 and I like her work – so shoot me. If she can do a Sweet Valley High movie and has already made a cameo on the show, I don’t think it’s preposterous. Obviously she would never slum it with the CW but I think a high school show by her would be awesome. Marshall and Kate are great on USoT, imagine what she could do with a bunch of rich CA kids …
… and then there’s Jennifer’s Body.
They look like nice women. I just hope they made the show less “goofy” fun and more guilty pleasure, twisted story lines and big dramatic explosions like The OC.
LOVED NY-LON!!! redevelop, please!
Love these two! Everyone involved is lucky to have them.
Two truly awesome, funny writers. So glad things are going for them.
Ugh. Life Unexpected was awful. But at least now with Sinclair gone, maybe they can lure Jennie Garth back. (Please?)
Hopefully they return to what made the series work at the beginning, the ties to the original 90210. Maybe with Sinclair gone, Garth will think about returning to the series.
Excellent excited. I hope they continue with Teddy’s well written storyline. It started off great and fizzled because they ran out of ideas. Trevor Donovan’s portrayal as Teddy Montgomery the Jock who suppressed his gay feelings because he felt he must keep up appearances, has related to my life and so many others from what I’ve seen in comments on twitter ect ect. I’m not an “advocate” but it’s just nice to see a story close to my life and apparently so many others play out so well. Fingers crossed.
Gavin MacLeod’s portrayal of Captain Merrill Stubing was the precursor of all closeted, conflicted gay men who must live up to their oppressive, anachronistic “shell games”.
Thank God Hollywood is here to set everyone “right”!
I’m not homofobic, but the Teddy storyline was awful. He doesn’t look gay or is gay at all! I guess that even Navid or Dixon could had a better portrayal of a gay teen, than the womanizer jock who loves all the girls! Damn it! It would be nice to see Teddy becoming at least bisex and give the gay storyline to someone else!
Patti was a hellcat on the strike line. Showed a lot of leadership out there!
They’re great girls, and very good writers…
Talented writers and genuinely nice people. Good for them!
They’re an awesome team. I loved Life Unexpected so I hope they will make 90210 work!
Sweet and funny are NOT what 90210 viewers are interested in…at all! Explosive, outrageous, shocking, over-the-top, twisted, watercooler-type storylines and moments will sell the show–nothing else. It needs to be a LOT more vintage Melrose Place, and a lot LESS goofy, sugary syrup. The best storylines have been the stalker cousin Emily, the crazy Mr. Cannon, wacko Adrianna (loved her self-absorbed obliviousness), even Jasper.
The point is, One Tree Hill provides all the sap and friendly non-drama one network can handle without vomiting. 90210 needs much, much more EDGE to hold the ever-changing interest of today’s teens…who have the attention span of a bug.
This article was longer than the amount of time this show has dedicated to a gay character.
It is for this reason that I have been complaining on other threads that I do not see an increase in the quantity of gay characters as being an improvement. If anything, we see a lot of diversity tokens, of which Teddy is the poster child.
To develop slowly, very slowly, a gay storyline and then to trash it totally is just a very painful experience for us, the show’s gay viewers.
But I will give these woman a chance to revive the show and the positive gay role model storyline.
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They are awesome, talented and organized!!!! Perfect choice!!!!
Patti and Lara are excellent writers and even better human beings. The CW made a great choice.
Except now I’m going to have to watch the damn show. Crap.
Good writers and producers, talented and creative. That’s what they have showed in the past.