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“Hitch” TV Show
Hitch is headed to the small screen. On Wednesday, television tattles confirmed that FOX has purchased the TV rights to Will Smith and Eva Mendes’ 2005 romantic-comedy and plans to adapt the hit film into an “action-packed one-hour project,” Deadline Hollywood reports. The film starred Smith as a professional “date doctor” trying to help a […]
Hitch is headed to the small screen.
On Wednesday, television tattles confirmed that FOX has purchased the TV rights to Will Smith and Eva Mendes’ 2005 romantic-comedy and plans to adapt the hit film into an “action-packed one-hour project,” Deadline Hollywood reports.
The film starred Smith as a professional “date doctor” trying to help a poor sap (Kevin James) win the heart of the girl of his dreams (Amber Valletta) while falling in love with a gossip columnist played by Mendes.
Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment will produce the TV project while The Proposal writer Pete Chiarelli has been tapped to pen the script.
This isn’t the first time television execs have toyed with the idea of adapting Hitch for the tube. Overbrook and Sony TV tried unsuccessfully to bring the film to TV as a half-hour single-camera comedy series three years ago.
But we still have to ask: Do we really need Hitch: The TV Series?