If you’d like to witness life in women’s prisons, raise your hand!
By fred | May 28, 2008
In TV land, whenever a network as a hit, others try to copy it. In fact, you don’t even have to look away at what other networks do, networks will try to duplicate their own hits over & over again themselves. Ain’t that right, CSI: SVU.
But recently, it seems everyone is going after one thing at the same time. There’s no hit already done, but everyone wants to do their series about a women’s prison. Latest in date comes from Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Til Dawn) who has been reporting shopping around with an idea for a new series described as a violent drama set in, you guessed it, a women’s prison, and said to be fashioned with a 1970’s exploitation sensibility.
So yes, you can expect some mud wrestling from Women In Chains!
The show is also said to star Rodriguez’s fiancée, Rose McGowan, who would play one of the five female character on the show. So, yeah, I’m sold. And I’m sure most guys are in too, and hope the show will land more on FX (or Showtime) than NBC. PS for Silverman and co: not much opportunities for product placement in that show, just forget it (please).
The funny thing though, is that it’s not the only show about a women’s prison that is around the corner. Alan Ball (Six Feet Under) is also working on “his own” show about a women’s prison, Bad Girls, adapted from the British female prison drama of the same name and written by Nancy Oliver (who also worked on Six Feet Under), though I’m sure their sensibilities will differ from Rodriguez’s.
Interesting to note also is that HBO bought the rights for Bad Girls from… FX.
But that’s not all, as I’m sure you all remember Fox “brilliant” idea of Cherry Hill, the spinoff and basically female version of Prison Break.
So, with a lot of women’s prison series possibly heading towards us, which one of them do you actually whishes to make it to the air ?
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Shows: Bad Girls, Cherry Hill, Women In Chains!
Robert Rodriguez Celebrity Gossip | If you’d like to witness life in women’s prisons, raise your hand!