From www.hollywoodreporter.com:

"Oscar-winning Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar is venturing into television with a series adaptation of his first international hit, the Oscar-nominated 1988 feature "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown."

Fox TV Studios is developing the English-language hourlong project and has tapped Mimi Schmir to pen the pilot script. Almodovar and Schmir are exec producing."


As much as I love Almodovar and Women on the Verge, and as much as I would like to see this series succeed, I fear that it will be 'watered down' to make it more marketable to US audiences, and to make it past the FCC.

I guess time will tell.

What do y'all think?

I'm not familiar with Screen Writer Mimi Schmir or any of her work; but Fox TV is a big 'player' in the Cable TV Market. If anyone can get it across, Fox TV would be a good bet.

I think one of the Spanish language Channels (Univision, etc.) might have a better chance. They currently produce some pretty risqué shows. I love 'em!