This year we've seen two network TV shows, Cashmere Mafia and Lipstick Jungle, that have tried to recreate the magic of HBO's Sex and the City, with mixed results. By contrast, HBO itself is moving on, leaving SATC for the big screen and once again developing interesting and unexpected female-driven projects.
Jill Scott and Anika Noni Rose will star in Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella's adaptation of the popular book series the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. The project, about an all-female private detective agency in Botswana, was originally developed as a movie. Variety reports that this story will now be told on the small screen as HBO has ordered 13 episodes of it. If this sounds confusingly similar to another recent female detective project, never fear, I've broken down the differences between the two. As for the other female-led show HBO has on deck, it's a little quirky, so read more.
Actually, "quirky" is probably a generous way to describe this other HBO project, though I think it will end up being quirky-awesome, not quirky-awkward. Apparently, The comedy is titled Driving Around With Joni and follows "a woman who spends her days driving around Los Angeles with her French bulldog, looking for meaning in her life after the sudden death of her husband." No word on who will star as the widow. Got suggestions?
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If Joni is going to be young, I could see Amy Adams, Zooey Deschanel, or Elizabeth Banks playing her. If she's older, I think Frances McDormand would be awesome. Then again, I think that Frances should be in EVERYTHING.
1Jill Scott is AWESOMENESS!!!!!
2that should be interesting to say the least. i feel like i've read a book or 2 in the series but just don't really remember them. oh well - i'll have to tune in to HBO to check it out.
3I absolutely love everything about Jill Scott, so I would definitely watch No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency!
4Ugh, not a fan of McCall Smith.
5Weird story! I first read the Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency book after borrowing it from a woman who had stolen a dog from her next door neighbor (he was abusing it). KARMIC
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