According to Deadline's Nellie Andreeva, Jennifer Beals has joined the cast of the pilot for ABC drama Venice in a starring role. Ilene Chaiken has signed on to serve as the executive producer and showrunner for the show if it goes to series. This serves as a reunion for the two, Beals played the role of Bette Porter on The L Word, which Chaiken co-created and executive produced. The L Word ran from 2004 to 2009. Here's an excerpt from the article, which gives some details on Venice:
Written by Byron Balasco, Venice, from Warner Bros TV and McG’s Wonderland Sound And Vision, is a soap about the haves and the have-nots of California’s most seductive city, Venice. It focuses on two rival families and a forbidden and dangerous romance emerging between them as the families battle for control of Venice. Beals, repped by APA and Greenlight Management, will play Lisa Carver, the elegant bohemian matriarch of the Carver family, one of the two feuding clans. McG is directing the pilot, which he, WME-repped Chaiken and Belasco executive produce with Peter Johnson.
Link to the full article:Jennifer Beals To Star In ABC Pilot 'Venice'
My thoughts: Unless I'm mistaken, I'm pretty sure that I read about Venice a while ago before this news was announced, and I was really excited about this show when I saw that it's being compared to William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. I'm a huge fan of Shakespeare's work, so that alone would have been enough to convince me to check the show out. I'm even more excited about this show than I was before now that Jennifer Beals has joined the cast and Ilene Chaiken has joined the show as executive producer and showrunner. Jennifer Beals is a very talented actress, and I thought that she did an especially good job on The L Word.
I know that a lot of people have criticized Ilene Chaiken's writing for The L Word, but I for one think that she's a fantastic writer. The L Word is one of my all-time favorite TV shows. I've always thought that Ilene had a real talent for coming up with great ideas for storylines revolving around relationship drama, and I'm sure that she'll able to bring that talent to this show. I've been hoping that she would work on a new TV show ever since The L Word ended and Showtime decided to not go forward with the spin-off. While she hasn't been involved with Venice since the very beginning of its development, I'm just excited that she's working on another TV show. I really hope that Venice goes to series and that it does well.
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