ABC Greenlights Charlies Angels Reboot
After a year of planning and development, ABC‘s reboot of their classic 1970′s show Charlie’s Angels has been given the all-clear to produce a pilot episode. The series is based on three women who work for a detective agency, under the leadership of their off-screen boss, Charlie.
Those involved in the project, produced in association with Sony TV, was originally set up with ABC for a similar pilot deal this time last year, with Josh Friedman employed as a writer. It failed to get as far as production, though, and the project was sent to redevelop with new writers on board, Smallville co-creators Al Gough and Miles Millar.
New ABC president Paul Lee is said to have been a big fan of the proposed script ever since he took over in August. Top casting director John Papsidera has been selected to discreetly hunt actresses for the three female leads. The pilot for the series is set to begin filming in January in Miami.
Alongside Gough and Millar on the executive production team are Leonard Goldberg (who served a similar role on the original series), Drew Barrymore(star of the two Charlie’s Angels movies), and Nancy Juvonen. The recruits all had a hand in the two movie versions of the hit series (2000 and sequel in 2003).
The reboot plan is set to follow the process of another popular 70′s series that has made a recent comeback, Hawaii Five-0, which had also had to go through two development cycles. ABC will be hoping for similar success from their new breed of Angels…
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