ABC's Slogan For The New 'Charlie's Angels'; "These ain’t your mama’s angels.”

[Brian Damage]

What was wrong with the classic show?

At this summer’s TCA, across the networks, there has been more than one panel including earnest, beautiful young women, mostly clad in teeny-tiny skirts and architecturally challenging platform heels, talking about how retro shows about gaggles of “girls” answering primarily to male bosses are actually all about female empowerment. Network execs and show producers also seem to be repeating the girl-power mantra. The main cases in point: NBC’s set-in-the-'60s The Playboy Club, ABC’s new Pan Am and the remake of the 1976-81 series Charlie’s Angels, co-executive produced by Leonard Goldberg with Drew Barrymore (veteran of the Charlie’s Angels movies) and creators/executive producers Al Gough and Miles Millar (both of Smallville). The show was unveiled at last month’s Comic-Con with the phrase: "These ain’t your mama’s angels.”

Following this morning’s Charlie’s Angels panel, I asked Millar the empowerment question: Really? He at first seemed to be addressing the issue by saying that initially, Gough’s and Miller’s wives didn’t want them to do the show. Why? Because the original angels were such role models to the producers' spouses, Millar said reverently. “They didn’t believe we could do it [and maintain] the legacy of Charlie’s Angels.” Millar said during the panel that the idea of the new series was not to make “a cynical remake” of the original, nor to assume the same tone as the movies, about which Gough said: “[They were] superheroes for girls, post-Matrix … [the new show will] bring to the table more grounded, more real” characters with somewhat dark back stories. “You want to have something to come back to every week.” Describing the tone of the new show, Gough said: “If Jack Bauer and Carrie Bradshaw had a love child, it would be [the new] Charlie’s Angels.”

http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/tca-...-predecessors/

[Pavan]

Just watch it. I've seen it. It has a nice mix between the original series and movies. I liked it. It also had some easter eggs for the series, like 1976 is the house address for the Townsend Agency.

[hch]

Originally Posted by Pavan

Just watch it. I've seen it. It has a nice mix between the original series and movies. I liked it. It also had some easter eggs for the series, like 1976 is the house address for the Townsend Agency.

If the new "Charlie's Angels" is Successful, maybe that will prompt Sony to release the DVDs of the Original show along with the new season.