Pilot season is over, people. Finally. By the grace of God, the networks have chosen a few offerings, discarded a hell of a lot more and sent a couple back for retooling. That means those of us who do this for a living can get back to writing up shows we’ve actually seen for a change. At least until next year’s pilot season starts. When is that going to be again? Goddamnit.
According to Deadline, ABC has just struck first in the 2012 pilot game. Perhaps because they’re banking on the Charlie’s Angels reboot to fail or perhaps because they’re just too excited about the book to wait any longer, ABC has ordered John Hoberg and Kat Likkel to adapt My Formerly Hot Life. The bestselling Stephanie Dolgoff memoir chronicles the author’s attempts to come to grips with her advancing age and the altered expectations that come with continuing birthdays. The network bought it last year, but until now, it was stuck in the development cycle.
Hoberg and Likkel may not be household names, but the writing team worked on My Name Is Earl for four seasons and more recently lent their talents to Better Off Ted. We won’t know until ABC orders a few more scripts, but if the channel continues along this path, it will mark a clear change from the direction they took this season when two shows directly centered around manliness made the fall schedule. We’ll see. Until then, expect a whole lot more of these in development stories over the next nine months. Yay!
