The new project is described as “Mean Girls meets Riverdale meets a Lizzo music video”…
A new Clueless TV series, which was originally announced as ‘in development’ last October, has finally found a home at the Peacock streaming service, Variety confirms.
The “dramatic” new show will have hour-long episodes, and will follow Dionne, Cher Horowitz’s best friend in the 90s feature film and also in the previous – and much more fluffy – Clueless TV outing. Dionne was first played by the now-controversial media figure Stacey Dash, and Dash reprised the role in the spin-off show.
This rebooted version of Clueless will be “a baby pink and bisexual blue-tinted, tiny sunglasses-wearing, oat milk latté and Adderall-fueled look at what happens when the high school queen bee Cher disappears and her lifelong No. 2 Dionne steps into Cher’s vacant Air Jordans” and tell the story of how Dionne will deal with “the pressures of being the new most popular girl in school, while also unravelling the mystery of what happened to her best friend, all in a setting that is uniquely 2020 L.A.”
2020 L.A. is certainly a lot different than it was envisioned to be back in October, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out!
The project has been written by Jordan Reddout and Gus Hickey (Will & Grace) and is being guided by executive producer Corinne Brinkerhoff (American Gothic).
More as we get it.