'Bad Girls': NBC remake casts Tracee Ellis Ross
Published Mar 15 2012, 10:21 GMT | By Morgan Jeffery
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The CSI actress will play a corrupt businesswoman, according to Deadline.
Her character Rachel is jailed after being caught selling phoney mortgages. Despite her new situation, Rachel is desperate to become pregnant.
Ross previously appeared on the UPN / CW series Girlfriends from 2000 to 2008 and currently stars in and produces BET sitcom Reed Between the Lines.
Other stars attached to NBC's Bad Girls include Jurnee Smollett (Friday Night Lights), Zoe Boyle (Downton Abbey), Rick Gonzalez (Reaper), Amy Smart (Crank) and Karolina Wydra (House).
Shameless showrunner John Wells will executive produce the pilot alongside Andrew Stearn and Nancy Pimental, as well as a team of British producers from Shed Media.
The original UK Bad Girls aired on ITV from 1999 to 2006 and followed the inmates and officers in a women's prison.
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To be honest, I don't think they are going to stick to the original characters and storylines, as every actor they annouce when it describe their character in it it doesn't resemblance of any of the original characters from series one.
To be honest I think its stupid if they don't stick to the original series. As it clearly won't be a remake, and I remember reading that the shows creator from the British version, wanted them to stick to the original characters and storyline.
If they don't stick to the original series, I could see it flopping.
March 15th 2012 at 10:50pm
Imagine when Bernard & Knives is remade as, 'B'nard & Blades'.
March 15th 2012 at 2:56pm
Why can't America just think of their own ideas? It seems now an 'idea man' for the TV stations seems to be whoever can stumble upon the most obscure British TV programme.
I'm expecting AMC to do a gritty crime drama remake of "This Morning" next.
March 15th 2012 at 1:29pm
I agree! Although I did generally enjoy watching up to series 6, and then I lost interest.
March 15th 2012 at 12:21pm
As long as they stick to Drama and the darker storylines of the first series this could work. Bad Girls started out being a very good drama that descended into a comedic farce of epic proportions. (Like most shows from Shed Productions).
I liked the 2008 idea of having Alan Ball produce the show for HBO, this could work still as long as they use the calibre of actors and writers that NBC use for Law & Order SVU.
March 15th 2012 at 11:30am