Speaking of garbage projects from the garbagetainment industry, NBC is reportedly developing a new comedy series with the working title My Best Friend Is a Lesbo.
The project, from Warner Bros TV and Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage's studio-based Fake Empire, is about two best female friends — one straight, the other gay — who become roommates and help each other navigate life, love, and dating in Los Angeles. The semi-autobiographical comedy is based on the real-life friendship of writers and longtime roommates Sascha Rothchild and Randi Barnes, who will co-pen the script together. This is a rare paring of the two, who are not a writing team. They will co-executive produce My Best Friend Is a Lesbo, with Fake Empire's Schwartz, Savage and Len Goldstein executive producing. If the project goes to series, its provocative title will probably be toned down the way ABC's Good Christian Bitches became Good Christian Belles and The Bitch At Apt. 23 was shortened to Apartment 23.I love how the "provocative title" is deemed the most problematic element, and not the treating as HIGHLARIOUSLY RADICAL two friends of differing sexualities. I also love how the use of "lesbo" is definitely the "provocative" part and not the centering of the straight woman right in the title, despite the fact that the show is ostensibly about the two of them equally.
Coincidentally, the working title of Deeky's and my Victorian werewolf docudramedy is My BFF Is Not a Lesbo. Small world!
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