Despite what you might think, The CW’s new hour-long show Fly Girls is actually not about the back-up dancers from In Living Color. If you were born after 1985 and don’t know what that means, go ask your father. There’s a good lad, run along now.
In a stunning display of product-placement synchronicity, The CW is teaming up with Virgin America Airlines to create Fly Girls, which follows the adventures of a group of female Virgin America flight attendants as they flit from one glamorous location to another, cleaning up air-sickness bags and presumably having a lot of sex (this is The CW, after all).
Variety reports that Jeff Collins and Colin Nash are exec producing the show, and the network has ordered eight episodes so far. Sadly, there’s no sign that the show is a period piece. I think they’re missing a real opportunity to capture a Mad Men vibe by setting the show in the ‘60s when they were still called stewardesses, they were all required to look like models, and casual pilot-on-stewardess sexual harassment was rampant. God knows TV needs more beehive hairdos and miniskirts.
