According to New York Magazine’s Vulture blog, Grey’s Anatomy creator and ~Dartmouth alumnus~ Shonda Rhimes is creating a series for ABC inspired by PR mega-consultant Judy Smith, whose clients have included Bill Clinton, Michael Vick and David Paterson. From the Vulture post:
Per the logline we’ve heard, the currently untitled project (which some development trackers had been calling In Crisis) will revolve around the life and work of a professional fixer and her dysfunctional staff. Rhimes is writing the script for the pilot and will executive produce with her ABC Studios-based Shondaland production company. (Smith is also set to be a producer on the project, which is being developed for the 2011-12 TV season.) The potential show is still in its infancy, but the idea sounds like something ABC executives might be keen on. The network hasn’t had much luck developing a Law & Order-like procedural in the legal or police arenas, and the untitled Rhimes hour could deliver the sorts of pulp-y stories L&O offers, but without the increasingly tired cops-and-lawyers motif. And who knows: Maybe Smith might be able to convince some of her ex-clients to do ironic cameos: Vick as a pet-shop owner, perhaps? Ha-ha-ha, ick?
I took a gander at Judy Smith dot com.
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Hm. Wrong Judy Smith? I wonder what a quilting PR crisis would look like.
As Life’s a Pitch devotees well know, it has been suggested that I turn this blog into a “trashy summer novel,” in which I not so discreetly publicize my clients by throwing in plot points like, “The Louboutins she had snagged for $55 at the 9th avenue HousingWorks Thrift Shop snapped across the Lincoln Center Plaza as she sneered at the new Bellagio-ed out fountain, eagerly anticipating soprano Sondra Radvanovsky’s performance as Tosca.” We’re happy to have Shonda Rhimes develop the project. I can even loan Megan Fox my long-sleeved Dartmouth tee.
The Amanda character isn’t going to pretend to like someone else’s taste in music, though, sorry.