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'Green Acres' May Get Reality Treatment
While CBS works on developing a reality version of "The Beverly Hillbillies," Fox TV is taking a serious look at re-doing its country cousin.
Originally posted Friday August 30, 2002 01:00 AM EDT
Earlier this week, CBS announced that it is developing a reality-based version of its '60s sitcom hit "The Beverly Hillbillies," on which a rural family will be re-situated into the excesses of Beverly Hills, Calif.
Now, reports Variety, Fox TV is planning a reality-based version of one of the "Hillbillies" spin-offs, "Green Acres," about a sophisticated New York couple that relocates to the sticks.
Can a "Petticoat Junction" reality version be far behind?
For the new "Green Acres" (the 1965 sitcom starred Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor and lasted six seasons), producers will likely "take a rich, upper-class family or individual -- possibly a celebrity -- and move them from a big city to a much more spartan existence, most likely in the South," says the trade paper.
Among the challenges in this new setting: getting a job, buying groceries and mingling with ordinary people.
The show is still in the development stage, says one of its producers, Mary-Ellis Bunim. As she told Variety: "Our final concept may end up being real different (from 'Green Acres')."
There has been no comment from Arnold the Pig.
Now, reports Variety, Fox TV is planning a reality-based version of one of the "Hillbillies" spin-offs, "Green Acres," about a sophisticated New York couple that relocates to the sticks.
Can a "Petticoat Junction" reality version be far behind?
For the new "Green Acres" (the 1965 sitcom starred Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor and lasted six seasons), producers will likely "take a rich, upper-class family or individual -- possibly a celebrity -- and move them from a big city to a much more spartan existence, most likely in the South," says the trade paper.
Among the challenges in this new setting: getting a job, buying groceries and mingling with ordinary people.
The show is still in the development stage, says one of its producers, Mary-Ellis Bunim. As she told Variety: "Our final concept may end up being real different (from 'Green Acres')."
There has been no comment from Arnold the Pig.
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