Perhaps this is more television news than it is movie news, but two of the once-biggest names in the industry, Renee Zellweger and Katherine Heigl, who’ve since fallen into a string of bad choices, are headed to work for television- separately.
Recently, I wrote about Heigl’s upcoming comedy caper, One for the Money, which is rumored to be just as lackluster as her last movies, Life As We Know It and Killers. Also, while Zellweger is waiting on a third installment of the Bridget Jones series to develop, I’ve been wondering about where the Chicago star’s career is headed after a straight-to-DVD release of My Own Love Song.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lifetime is developing Cinnamon Girl, “a 1960s drama loosely based on Zellweger’s journey from small-town Texas to Hollywood.” The series is co-created by Zellweger and Anthony Tambakis (Warrior) and will follow “four girls as they come of age during the cultural revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s in Los Angeles. The drama will explore Cassie, Lola, Penny and Lou’s lives as they reach a crossroads of the era’s political, artistic, social and sexual rebellions.”
The actress is executive producing with Gavin O’Connor (Warrior) who is also directing the script written by Jerry Maguire scribe, Danny Bramson. The network does not currently have a show like this in rotation, so it should make for a highly anticipated change of pace.
As for Heigl, the former Grey’s Anatomy star won’t be showing up in front of the small screen cameras any time soon, but has sold a story idea for a new program to The CW. Deadline Hollywood reveals that Heigl is behind the development of Trending, based on the novel Bi-Coastal Babe by Cynthia Langston.
The story follows “26-year-old Lissa Bennett whose job is to search for the newest and hottest emerging trends in order to keep her corporate clients ahead of the curve but finds it difficult to predict the trends in her love life as well.” Written by Gren Wells (A Little Bit of Heaven), Heigl will executive produce with her Abishag production company, which was behind The Ugly Truth and Life As We Know It.
Maybe one day these two leading ladies will land on their feet in front of the camera, but for now, there is not timeline set for when either of these projects will begin production. What do you think of Zellweger and Heigl’s television ideas? Would you watch either of the shows? Do you still want to see the respective Oscar winner and Emmy winner back in movies?
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