'Blonde' Director Investigates WB's 'Spygirl'
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com)
"Legally Blonde" director Robert Luketic has come on board to help shepherd "Spygirl," an hour-long pilot on The WB. The netlet has given a put pilot commitment to the drama, which comes from Warner Bros. TV-based 25C Productions.
The series is based on Amy Gray's autobiographical "Spygirl: True Adventures from My Life as a Private Eye," which was published last fall. The book focuses on an Ivy League grad who leaves a unfulfilling job at a publishing house to join a Manhattan private investigating firm populated by quirky PIs delving into seedy cases. Soon, her love life and her professional life begin intersecting in unpredictable ways.
Maggie Friedman ("Dawson's Creek") wrote the pilot and will executive produce along with Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly of 25C and writer-producer Ed Redlich ("Felicity," "Without a Trace"). Luketic, whose other credits include "Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!" and the upcoming "Monster-in-Law," will direct the pilot and executive produce.
"As a PI show, it's absolutely a procedural,, but at the same time, it's more about a young woman's investigations into human passions than about fingerprints or offshore accounts or paper trails," Timberman tells The Hollywood Reporter. "It's about a twentysomething woman given the opportunity to be a licensed voyeur in a sophisticated adult world at a point at which she's becoming an adult herself."
This is the second time that Gray's story has been in the mix for a network slot. In 2002, "Spy Girl" was in the works at NBC, but never made it to air.
It's shaping up as a busy development season for 25C. The company already has a legal drama from Redlich set up at CBS, while FOX has given a script commitment to the drama "Unhitched, from Gary Tieche and Barry Sonnenfeld ("Men in Black").
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com)
"Legally Blonde" director Robert Luketic has come on board to help shepherd "Spygirl," an hour-long pilot on The WB. The netlet has given a put pilot commitment to the drama, which comes from Warner Bros. TV-based 25C Productions.
The series is based on Amy Gray's autobiographical "Spygirl: True Adventures from My Life as a Private Eye," which was published last fall. The book focuses on an Ivy League grad who leaves a unfulfilling job at a publishing house to join a Manhattan private investigating firm populated by quirky PIs delving into seedy cases. Soon, her love life and her professional life begin intersecting in unpredictable ways.
Maggie Friedman ("Dawson's Creek") wrote the pilot and will executive produce along with Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly of 25C and writer-producer Ed Redlich ("Felicity," "Without a Trace"). Luketic, whose other credits include "Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!" and the upcoming "Monster-in-Law," will direct the pilot and executive produce.
"As a PI show, it's absolutely a procedural,, but at the same time, it's more about a young woman's investigations into human passions than about fingerprints or offshore accounts or paper trails," Timberman tells The Hollywood Reporter. "It's about a twentysomething woman given the opportunity to be a licensed voyeur in a sophisticated adult world at a point at which she's becoming an adult herself."
This is the second time that Gray's story has been in the mix for a network slot. In 2002, "Spy Girl" was in the works at NBC, but never made it to air.
It's shaping up as a busy development season for 25C. The company already has a legal drama from Redlich set up at CBS, while FOX has given a script commitment to the drama "Unhitched, from Gary Tieche and Barry Sonnenfeld ("Men in Black").
