Amy's HBO Gig
David Milligan
"Gilmore Girls" creator writing series for HBO
Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:51pm EDT
By Nellie Andreeva
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Gilmore Girls" creator Amy
Sherman-Palladino will be tackling more mother-daughter relationships in a
project for HBO.
Sherman-Palladino will write and executive produce an untitled
comedy-drama for the cable network. The show chronicles the complicated
relationships among three adult sisters, all writers living in the same
Upper East Side apartment building, and their mother, a domineering literary
lioness who reserves her affections for their ne'er-do-well brother.
"It's a story of love, hate, family -- and finding the perfect
opening line," Sherman-Palladino said.
The project marks Sherman-Palladino's first foray into cable.
After a string of jobs on broadcast sitcoms, including "Roseanne"
and "Veronica's Closet," Sherman-Palladino rose to prominence with her
quirky mother-daughter comedy-drama "Gilmore Girls," which aired on the WB
and CW for seven seasons. For the first six years, Sherman-Palladino
executive produced the show starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel before
parting ways with producing studio Warner Bros. TV.
Sherman-Palladino most recently created and executive produced the
short-lived Fox comedy series "The Return of Jezebel James."
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David E. Milligan
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Rob Jensen
I hate to say this but it sounds like a retool of Jezebel James.
Also, I think she's being waaaaay too insular -- and too cute by half
-- in having all three of the Bronte sisters (hee) be writers.
She needs to finally do the real Gilmore Girls finale to get that out
of her system and then move on to some other set-up than a family of
writers, which is the principle of "write what you know" to the absurd
extreme.
-- Rob
David Milligan
"Rob Jensen" <Shut...@aol.com> wrote in message
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I was thinking kind of like that, but being on HBO I'm sure the
language and (semi) nudity factors will be higher.
> Also, I think she's being waaaaay too insular -- and too cute by half
> -- in having all three of the Bronte sisters (hee) be writers.
#1 - Murder mysteries; #2 - Children's books; #3 - (Very) Graphic novels
>
> She needs to finally do the real Gilmore Girls finale to get that out
> of her system and then move on to some other set-up than a family of
> writers, which is the principle of "write what you know" to the absurd
> extreme.
>
> -- Rob
Maybe she's running out of imagination. And Dan is no help.
William George Ferguson
>I hate to say this but it sounds like a retool of Jezebel James.
>
>Also, I think she's being waaaaay too insular -- and too cute by half
>-- in having all three of the Bronte sisters (hee) be writers.
And their mother considers their ne-er do well brother Bramwell to be the
most talented.
And they're all going to die of tuberculosis.
(Well, Charlotte apparently died because of poor health during a difficult
pregnancy, but then since all four of her sisters and her brother had died
of tuberculosis, the doctor probably didn't want to break the string and
entered that as the cause of death also)
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I have a theory, it could be bunnies