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Reality Show Version of Girls Has Predictably Self-Deprecating Casting Notice

I’m not sure if we have a term in the English language for something like the singularity, except it happens when Craigslist ads for reality shows based on better scripted programs become self-aware, but if we did, the world we lived in would be even sadder. (Presumably because that means this phenomenon happened enough to deserve its own entry in Webster’s.) 

So just be glad that the Emmy-Award winning producers behind this new program about Brooklyn/downtown Manhattan hipsters 20-somethings who are trying to figure it all out can only have the one reference like this:

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You–Yes You!–Could be Playing Wonder Woman on the CW!

Good news for everyone who was saddened by the aborted Tara-from-Friday-Night-Lights (Adrianne Palicki) reboot of Wonder Woman on NBC: The CW has tentatively green-lighted a script about Diana of Themyscira, with the working title Amazon. And now they have a producer and a casting director as well!

And like many programs on the CW (Smallville, The Carrie Diaries) and comic book characters (Spider-Man, X-Men, Batman,) the show will be a revised origin story of the woman with the magic lasso. But can you make the cut in casting? Read More