Hairspray TV Show?

[robbie_731]

Posted: 7/3/13 at 3:42am

Does anyone know what network this is in possible development for, what stage it's in, or what format it might take (new songs?). It's the first I've heard of a possible TV show based on Hairspray.

On the success and multiple incarnations of Hairspray: “It’s the gift that keeps on giving. I got paid to write a sequel, White Lipstick, which never happened, and a television series, which still might. But I just want to keep on with it until we get to Hairspray on Ice.”

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/an-evening-john-waters-critics-578135

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 7/3/13 at 5:41am

My guess since John Waters is the one involved in writing it, the tone and such will be more similar to the original film than the stage musical and subsequent movie musical.

[gchris11]

Posted: 7/3/13 at 7:21am

'But I just want to keep on with it until we get to Hairspray on Ice.”

Waiting for this to happen so I can book my Carnival Cruise. LOL!!

[all that jazz]

Posted: 7/3/13 at 8:15am

I wish some network would pick up the Corny Collins Show, as long as it's not NBC.

[JP2]

Posted: 7/3/13 at 12:07pm

Wouldn't mind a musical show with Water, Shaiman, and Witman involved.

Harvey as Edna, and Blonsky as Tracy. They'd pretty much have to recast everyone else.

[darquegk]

Posted: 7/3/13 at 12:16pm

Waters himself will surely play some role in the production, either as executive producer or as writer or at least as a cameo figure.

Is there a role for a necrophiliac undertaker? A teacher who prefers the company of his youngest students? A used underwear salesman? Something friendly but loathsome, that's what he does best. I doubt they'd expand "the flasher next door" into a recurring figure, but they need something decidedly "aww/eww" for Waters to make regular appearances.

Maybe they can do "The Creep" on the Corny Collins show!

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 7/3/13 at 1:07pm

I didn't click on the link. Is a network developing it or a cable channel? If cable, I imagine it would be something appropriate for Ovation or Oxygen. Maybe even Lifetime. If we're talking network, maybe FOX would take it on. I honestly don't see NBC dipping their toes back into a scripted musical series anytime soon and his more ironic, twisted sense of humor is not a fit for ABC.

[Visceral_Fella]

Posted: 7/3/13 at 3:00pm

This is actually great material for a TV show. I never realized.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 7/4/13 at 12:28am

I don't know if this would work.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/4/13 at 12:44am

"Harvey as Edna, and Blonsky as Tracy"

You know she's supposed to be a teenager, right?

[darreyl102]

Posted: 7/4/13 at 12:47am

And why does the rest of the cast have the be cast? There are a slew of people who have played the roles on stage and off that can still play it.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/4/13 at 12:56am

Nobody is saying it's a musical. It's probably a series based on the original movie, but I can't see it getting produced. Period pieces are awfully expensive.