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EXCLUSIVE: Just when we thought the trend of comedies based on blogs and Twitter feeds was cooling off, it’s back! Fox has tapped Ugly Betty creator Silvio Horta to develop a half-hour comedy based on the infamous blog Texts From Last Night. Happy Madison and Sony Pictures TV are producing. Fox has been high on the Web property. The network, Happy Madison and Sony TV first took a stab at developing a comedy based on the Web site two seasons ago with Steve Holland as the writer. Last season, it was redeveloped with different writers, Marc Abrams and Michael Benson. Now a new take will be written by Horta, who had been looking to branch out into half-hour comedies after creating 2 sci-fi dramas, The Chronicle and Jake 2.0 and a dramedy, 
ABC’s Ugly Betty. The user-generated TFNL blog posts “regrettable,” often embarrassing text messages usually sent late at night by people who are drunk or high. The Web site became an instant hit when it launched in February 2009, and landed a book and TV deal. This marks WME-repped Horta’s second sale under the overall deal with Sony TV he signed in June. The other one, also at Fox, is a Latino family dramedy, which he is writing and executive executive producing with Jennifer Lopez.
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If Silvio Horta had been greenlit by Paul Lee instead of Stephen McPherson, would the show have been treated as badly as it was by Stephen? Or would Paul have supported the creative side more?
Correction: I mean if Ugly Betty had been greenlit by Paul Lee.
Mark my words: this show will never work.
What’s your point? Go waste your time doing something else. Seriously. Drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Nice to see some non white folk get deals. Congrats FOX for hiring outside the white line.
Silvio is white. A white Latino (in his case, Cuban-American.) Many Latinos are white. And black and brown as well. Latino is not a race, it’s an ethnicity.
He is not Anglo. And so you could say:
“Nice to see some non-Anglo folk getting deals. Congrats FOX for hiring outside the Anglo line.”
A sentiment I agree with.
Im good with that. Its just nice to see some diversity, as you would say Anglo Hollywood doesn’t care one Iota about diversity.
We heard this pitch but already bought a few internet dating shows in the past month. Its very funny and has some great off the wall characters. I wish my boss had said yes.
Damn. JLo is sure desperate to stay relevant somehow. God forbid she’s not spinning 50 plates of mediocrity! Y’know as long as she gets paid and all.
One wonders if it ever occurs to JLo how easy she makes it to feel incredibly sick of her. I guess not. That would suggest a certain amount of depth.
Get Shatner to co-star as a cranky old father and…..
Oh, wait a minute. This same idea was already done in the disasterous “$#*! My Dad Says”.
Nice try.