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ABC has greenlighted to pilot drama Scruples, produced by former Imagine TV CEO-turned-feature director Tony Krantz and actress Natalie Portman. It is based on the 1978 bestselling book by Krantz’s mother, Beverly Hills novelist Judith Krantz, who
also penned a sequel in 1992, and centers on a rich and powerful clothing designer in a world of sex, revenge and scandal. Bob Brush and Mel Harris wrote the adaptation and executive produce with Portman, her producing partner Annette Savitch and Krantz. Krantz’s Flame Ventures is producing with Warner Bros. TV, which has the rights to the property via the 1980 Scruples miniseries starring Lindsay Wagner, which it produced. The pilot order caps Krantz’s successful return to TV producing this season while he also continues to be active as feature director. Scruples marks the first foray into television for Portman, who won an Oscar last year for Black Swan.
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Paul Lee must really want a clothing designer soap opera to order two pilots with the exact same premise. See also: Americana.
Didn’t ABC just buy a soap about a fashion line (Americana)? If I’m Mark Gordon, I am pissed.
ABC = Soap Net. Back to the 80′s at ABC. Yawn.
What is going on with ABC this year? Beauty and the Beast, Scruples. Another year of cheesy, badly written tv shows. All the pilots they’ve picked up this year sound horrible.
I hope Portman appears or does a reoccurring role, if “Scruples” makes it to series. I would love to see her do television work for a change.
Why green light Americana then? What’s going on with Carlton Cuse pilots? Why no green light?
Who else remembers reading this mass paperback in jr. high school and underlining “the good parts?” Love it – guilty pleasure trashy fun, proving everything old is new again…
Soap operas, fantasies and soaps. Is there anything else ABC is going to do this season. Didn’t they develop other genres?
ABC is into escapism, which trumps cop/lawyer/crime/singing shows anytime. Just look at CBS if they want a new show, they just clone a crime show, NBC clone a lawyer/crime show.
There is nothing wrong with fantasy, after all who owns ABC….King of fantasy, Disney
ordering 30 rock and studio 60 at the same time yielded a moneymaking hit for NBC–arguably those two concepts were closer than Scruples and Americana
How are those two closer? One was a drama, one a comedy? These are both dramas.