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US to remake Bad Girls

The UK's 1999 female prison series is getting a US pilot at NBC.

The US has its sights set on another British remake, this time an adaptation of Bad Girls.

The women’s prison drama ran for eight seasons from from 1999 to 2006 and the version for NBC will be executive produced by John Wells (ER, Third Watch, Southland, Shameless).

A Pilot will be written by Nancy Pimental for John Wells Prods and Shed Media, which previously had the project under consideration by both FX and HBO. When it was with HBO, writer Alan Ball was said to be involved and the remake was set to follow original storylines.

Of course Australia’s iconic Prisoner -currently airing on 111HITS- pre-dates Bad Girls, but not the other UK prison series Within These Walls (1974-78).

Prisoner itself had a US remake known as Dangerous Women (1991) as well as the original Aussie series having an earlier US screening.

Last year TEN cancelled plans to revisit the genre with a new local series, Inside Out.

Source: Deadline

6 Responses

  1. I think Nine should pick up Inside Out it fits their demographic better and they need something like that that has potential. Seven’s fairy floss coated dramas are in la la land, really can’t see them making a show about the grim realities of prison life.

  2. expect Foxtel to pick up the US Bad Girls here. Now that Ten has dumped Inside Out, perhaps Seven should pick it up, it fits their demographic and it’ll be Australian made.

  3. Bad Girls was nowhere near as good as Prisoner, not even close. I also remember Dangerous Women which was almost an exact clone of Prisoner storyline wise but much more poorly done. I used to record it when it was shown late at night in the early 90’s around the same time they were repeating Prisoner. I wish they would show Dangerous Women again but that seems unlikely to ever happen. Oh how I wish I had kept those tapes of Dangerous Women as now that show doesn’t seem to be available anywhere.

  4. as long as the US do not ‘dumb it down’ it should b good. john wells who has the magnificant-and underated-southland on his books should make a go of it. prefer to see it with hbo though, not nbc.

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