Hot off the success of 1995’s Clueless, ABC greenlit a television adaptation of the same name in which Stacey Dash reprised her role as Cher’s best friend Dionne. It ran for three seasons across two networks and was almost universally considered worse than the movie but still watchable. At least that’s what I thought anyway, and for some reason sensible people pay me to come to these conclusions.
Outside of Clueless, there’s, of course, a long and sordid history of this kind of thing, and while it doesn’t exactly stink of originality, since the majority of new television programs are terrible, I’m not gonna get all hot and bothered over one more redub. According to Variety, the Queen Latifah produced Single Ladies is next in line for the movie-to-television carousel. The movie which wrapped just a few months ago stars, you guessed it, Stacey Dash along with LisaRaye McCoy and Charity Shea as presumably single ladies. Normally, these sorts of things materialize after a movie premieres to raging success, but reportedly, VH1 was so pleased with the test screening audiences that it decided to get things moving as quickly as possible.
Single Ladies is set to upend VH1’s long held music-or-shitty-reality-show tunnel vision in July of next year. The feature will air first followed by eight subsequent episodes. Put a ring on it.
