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| MODEL WOMAN (ABC)
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DEVELOPMENT
HISTORY:
1/27/16
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4/6/16
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STATUS:
previously in development (2016-2017 season) |
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
ordered to pilot |
DESCRIPTION:
(from ABC's press release, March 2016) Beauty and glamour. Fame and fortune. Betrayal and intrigue. It's 1977 and the formidable Bertie Geiss (Andie MacDowell), with her colorful husband Miller by her side, lords over the Geiss Modeling Agency, a monopolistic powerhouse that sets standards of beauty worldwide. Bertie has an eye for spotting talent and cultivates her finds by mentoring the "girls" in a sorority-type home with strict rules and regimens. Her son Elson is gorgeous and has his mother's eye for the next face, while son Lonnie longs to escape the business side and find the next star. Rebellious daughter Michelle, although model material, wants no part of fashion and chooses to photograph reality, not fantasy. But Bertie's true children are her models, especially her top-tier star clients. So when supermodel Rebecca Blackwell returns from Paris demanding what amounts to free services from the Geiss agency, Bertie hatches a plot to keep her under her wing. The next fire to put out comes in the form of betrayal. Bertie's Paris partner Lio Fibonacci, a sexy, dangerous snake is secretly pilfering models to join his new agency in New York while introducing the models to the disco nightlife of glamour, sex and drugs which Bertie forbids. As everyone knows, your enemy's enemy can be your friend, so Bertie offers an olive branch to her former client and now competitor Helenjane Harris to join forces against Lio. Lonnie may have a chance to shed his "numbers guy" persona and get in the talent-scouting game when he plucks a Pippi Longstocking-type girl from the waiting room named Gemma Pinschenat. Bertie sizes her up in seconds and is about to dismiss her when she's surprised by Gemma removing the mortician's wax camouflaging an intriguing gap between her front teeth. Bertie immediately sees what Lonnie saw - a potential star and Lonnie's "first face". As Bertie fights to stay on top, her family is floundering. Husband Miller is the target of Rebecca's passes, son Elson -- normally a player - is falling for Gemma, and Lio is making the moves on daughter, Michelle, whom he knows is forbidden fruit. As she nears hitting the big 50th birthday, will Bertie be able to hold on to power in the anything-goes/if-it-feels-good-do-it world of the 1970s? |
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Andie MacDowell as Bertie Geiss
· Caitlin Carver as Michelle Geiss
· Chris Mason as Elson Geiss
· Dan Byrd as Lonnie Geiss
· Felix Gomez as Lio Fibonacci (Originally Cast)
· Jamie Bamber as Lio Fibonacci
· Kayley Ronayne as Rebecca Blackwell
· Madeline Blake as Gemma Pinschenat
· Marcus Callender as Drew Pickett
· Nicole Ari Parker as Helenjane Harris
· Steven Weber as Miller Geiss
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CREW INFORMATION:
· Helen Childress as CRTR/EP
· Liz Craft as EP
· Richard Shepard as DIR (Pilot)
· Robert Lacey as BOOK
· Rosalie Swedlin as EP
· Sarah Fain as EP
· Scarlett Lacey as EP
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GENRE(S):
· drama
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STUDIO INFORMATION:
· ABC Studios
· Anonymous Content
· TriStar Television
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