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including local playboy and attorney Nick Dalton,played by CSI:Miami’s Eddie Cibrian. “The Playboy Club is a fun place to visit.The


women are beautiful and the men are hand- some,” says Marion Edwards, president, inter- national television,20th Century Fox Television Distribution. “It will be broad, it’s a network show, it’s not cable.”


The Playboy Club The Playboy Club is the second period piece to be unveiled by the networks this season. The series is produced by Imagine Television’s Brian Glazer,who has worked on movies including A


funny too. “We have two women-centric comedies – Apartment 23 and New Girl – and this has coincided with the success of the movie Bridesmaids [starring Saturday Night Live’s Kristen Wiig], which did very well at the box office,” she says.


The female skew is noticeable across the listings. Disney’s Good Christian


Beautiful Mind and American Gangster, in asso- ciation with 20th Century Fox Television. The Playboy Club centres on the eponymous


nightclub in Chicago launched by Hugh Hefner in the 1960s and follows characters


Belles (formerly Good Christian Bitches), which is produced by Darren Star, has received much interest for its Dallas-meets-Desperate Housewives approach and Sony has rebooted the Charlie’s Angels franchise with a series produced by Drew Barrymore. “Women generally make up the majority of the TV audience so charac-


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Alcatraz (right) Alcatraz is,essentially,Lost-meets-Prison Break with an added dash of Fringe. The series, which is produced by J.J.Abrams and his Bad Robot production banner as well as Bonanza Productions, stars Sons of Anarchy's Sarah Madsen as a detective in the San Francisco police department working on a muder case that brings her back to some strage happen- ings at the legendary prison many years ago. Jurassic Park's Sam Neil, and Lost's Jorge Garcia also star in this one-hour drama that is written by Lost's Elizabeth Sarnoff. "Alcatraz is one of our showpieces for this Screenings," says Jeffrey Schlesinger, president, Warner Bros International Television Distribution. "It's


a procedural with some mythology, rather than something you have to catch every week."


Secret Circle Secret Circle is the latest series produced by Scream, Dawson's Creek and The Vampire Diaries writer Kevin Williamson. The show, which will air on The CW, is based on a book by L.J Smith about a young girl, played by Life Unexpected's Britt Robertson,that discov- ers she is a witch. "What vampires are to The Vampire Diaries, witches are to the Secret Circle," says Schlesinger. "This show is really going to be in the sweet spot for networks like ITV2," he adds.


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The New Girl (left) The New Girlstars (500) Days of Summer’s Zooey Deschanel as a girl in her late 20s who moves into a house with three guys following a bad break-up.The single camera comedy, which is produced in association with Chernin Entertainment, was created by No Strings Attached’s Liz Meriwether. Fox’s Edwards says: “Deschanel is so appealing and awkward.She’s very much an indie girl and she has a great lightness and vulnerability.”


ters that they can root for are appeal- ing,” says Keith LeGoy, president, inter- national distribution, Sony Pictures Television.


Last year was, ultimately, disappoint- ing for US shows with few breaking out domestically or internationally. However, as May rolls around and the buyers hit town, the studios are once again optimistic that one (or more) of their shows will stand out. “It’s a golden age of television, I just hope there’s enough room for all of these shows,” adds Edwards. TBI


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