FOX Orders a New Gender-Bending Comedy Pilot Called Lalola

-- Dan McCallum from AfterElton.com

 

Can FOX do what ABC and NBC pulled off with Ugly Betty and The Office, respectively?  It's time we find out, because the network is taking a risk in adapting the Argentinian telenovela Lalola into a new series.

According to Variety, Fox has picked up the gender-bending pilot about a womanizer who gets a taste of his own medicine when with two shakes of a stick he's turned from a rooster into a hen by a scorned ex.  That's right, it's a new body swapping "comedy" from the network that brought us such high class shows Cops and World's Worst Car Crashes.

 

Created by Journeyman's Kevin Falls, the show will be set in the world of sports, entertainment and fashion. Think Just One of the Guys meets All of Me and Arli$$ by way of Sex and the City.

To get an idea of what the fuss is all about, here's the trailer for the original Lalola (with english subtitles)

Lalola was hailed as the next Ugly Betty when it premiered in Argentina so I'm sitting here thinking how fun it would be if we could get Betty's Michael Urie and Becky Newton to play the two leads.  Sure they have their own show and a little thing called a contract but how fun would that be?

For those of you keeping track at home, this show is not to be confused with FX's new show from Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy called Pretty/Handsome (original title, 4 oz), which is about a husband that comes to terms with being transgender and undergoes gender reassignment surgery starring Joseph Fiennes, Carrie-Ann Moss and Blythe Danner.