We Miss Gilmore Girls - So Bunheads Will Do

Your Stars Hollow team adores a certain Ms Amy Sherman-Palladino, the brains and voice behind the always fabulous 'Gilmore Girls'  ( aka - best show in the world)  Her next show, Bunheads, centers on a former Vegas showgirl who , after impulsively getting married, moves to a small coastal town and works at her mother-in-law's dance school. We also happen to be fans of anything dance-related (think Step Up, Centre Stage, even Honey!) and Amy herself spent 20 years as a dancer which bodes well for the accuracy of the series.  

We have been bitterly disappointed in the past - we got all excited about an AS-P project that starred the yummy Sean Farris - The Wyoming Project - but this never saw the light of day.  The Return Of Jezebel James also showed promise but fizzled after only 3 episodes.

Let's keep our fingers crossed for Bunheads.  It will star Broadway favourite Sutton Foster as the Las Vegas showgirl and It was just announced that Kelly Bishop, who portrayed Emily Gilmore in Gilmore Girls, will play the recurring role of Fanny, her mother-in-law^. 

 
Bunheads will screen in the US in June 2012

Sooki's not the only one!

Another Gilmore Girls allum - Amy Sherman Palladino, writer and creator of Gilmore Girls, is going to pilot for a new series for ABC Family -  Bunheads.

Bunheads is about Michelle, a Las Vegas showgirl who “impulsively” marries a guy and moves to his hometown where she starts to teach at his mother’s dance school.
The series is set to be an hourlong drama.
Amy is also writing a pilot series for ABC - an adaptation of The Nanny Diaries.

Let's keep our fingers crossed that one of these makes it unlike the much anticipated 'Wyoming Project' or 'The Return Of Jezebel James'

It's So Sad When They End

While I'm consumed by series finales I thought I'd hark back to our all time favourite for a moment.  I just read a very interesting take on Gilmore Girls final season which I thought was interesting...



“One show that flubbed its ending in almost every important way, in my view, is ‘Gilmore Girls.’ The show’s creator left before the final season of ‘GG’ and the new person brought in to mop up during that last year just didn’t have a good feel for the characters or their world, and after spending six seasons with the people of Star’s Hollow, the final season was a trainwreck on a character level. A fairly decent series finale wasn’t enough to remove the bad taste that the rest of that unfortunate season had left. Very little of what transpired was true to the vision I’d watched for the first six years of the show.”  George R.R. Martin, author of the Game of Thrones



I can't say he is entirely wrong as much as I hate saying anything negative about my beloved GG, but I think all GGs die hard fans wonder what would have transpired in season 7 if Amy Sherman-Palladino hadn't left.

It's A Sad Day At The Hollow

Sad news! Though Scott Patterson’s (Luke Danes on Gilmore Girls) new pilot series for NBC, The Event, and Melissa McCarthy’s (Sookie on Gilmore Girls) has new CBS comedy pilot, Mike and Molly, were both picked up for the Fall season, The Wyoming Project, the upcoming pilot from Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino (creators of Gilmore Girls), has not!

The CW has not chosen to pick up the Palladino series. Instead, the network has chosen to pick up two other new shows for the Fall slate: Nikita and Hellcats.
Courtesy -Gilmore News


I can not tell you how sad I am about this news.  That's my weekend ruined!
Drop by here to see why we were so excited.

Bugger Them

Television Without Pity has named the upcoming pilot from Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino (creators of Gilmore Girls), The Wyoming Project, as one of the 10 “Worst-Sounding New Pilots.”
(Gilmore News)

EXCITING NEWS - from the brains behind Gilmore

We get very excited when Amy Sherman Palladino and her husband develop a new series and although 'The Return Of Jezebel James' didn't take off, there is a new offering and it looks FANTASTIC.

The new series centres around 22-year-old Gideon Thorpe, a horse trainer who inherits a ranch in Wyoming. There he must care for his 3 younger sisters after their parents die.

Now for the best bit - Sean Faris was recently cast in the lead role of The Wyoming Project. You’ll recognize him from The Vampire Diaries, and 'Life As We Know It' which is a special favourite of ours.

Hmmmmm

The CW has ordered a pair of pilots with familiar hooks, one being the latest version of "La Femme Nikita" and the other coming from "Gilmore Girls" creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.

Sherman-Palladino and husband Daniel Palladino are behind an untitled family drama set on a Wyoming horse farm. That project is set up through Warner Bros. and CBS TV Studio.

More Ace Gilmore Related News.

The brain and heart behind the fantabulous "Gilmore Girls" (creator-executive producer) Amy Sherman-Palladino will be tackling more mother-daughter relationships in a project for HBO.

Amy will write and executive produce the untitled dramedy, which "chronicles the complicated relationship between three adult sisters, all writers, sharing the same upper east side apartment building, and their mother, a domineering literary lioness who reserves most of her affections for their ne'er-do-well brother."

"It's a story of love, hate, family -- and finding the perfect opening line," Sherman-Palladino said.

I absolutely can't wait - how good does it sound!! I wonder who the cast will be - oh it's too hard to wait.... Amy is my hero!! She ran the show starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel for the first six years before parting ways with producing studio Warner Bros. TV. Even I will admit that the show was never the same after Amy left.

All Hail The Sherman-Palladino

Hilarious

I'm so sorry - I just can't help it. I miss G.G so much that Youtube is like a hit. I'm addicted. Luckily I know that at least a few of our readers are similarly afflicted so probably won't mind this post.
These Gilmorisms remind me just what a genius Amy Sherman-Palladino (or God) is.



K. I think it is definitely time to start from the beginning again. Thoughts?