Image Credit: Christopher Smith/PR PhotosEW has exclusively learned that Groundhog Day star Andie MacDowell has been cast as the character Grey in ABC Family’s drama pilot What Would Jane Do. The one-hour scripted drama follows Jane (to be played by The Lake‘s Erica Dasher), a 16-year-old who goes to work for a cutting edge fashion company after the people there mistake her for an adult. MacDowell’s Grey is described as “the hard-nosed, tough-as-nails boss that Jane goes to work for.”
In a release, ABC Family described the show as such: “Jane soon finds herself juggling life as a regular teenager in high school and as an assistant to a high-powered executive in the cutthroat world of fashion … all while trying to keep her true identity a secret.” Should like a cross between Disney’s Hannah Montana and Nickelodeon’s True Jackson, VP — now, with a diva-licious Andie MacDowell at the helm.
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This sounds like half of the plot of Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead.
That exactly what I screamed out when I read the synopsis!
Oh My Gosh! Exactly what I was thinking. This is the same sub-plot of Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead.
And Andie McDowell? Well ABCFamily is not known for picking people who can actually “act”, and scripts that aren’t cheesy….so I guess this isn’t a surprise.
Andie McDowell? As hard as nails boss? Really?
Will Glenn Close dub all of McDowell’s lines? Only way I would see this.
This kind of reminds me of “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead”
This is just like the sub-plot in “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead”! I remember watching that movie as a kid just because I loved that part of the story. Really looking forward to a reboot!
It sounds similar to “Don’t tell mom the babysitter’s dead” but without a dead babysitter.
It would be hard to imagine worse casting than Andie MacDowell playing “tough” or “hard-as-nails”. It’s easier to imagine a sixteen year old being HER boss, and scaring the crap out of her.
I’m really hoping that this will fill that Ugly Betty-sized hole in television. I need a weekly dose of b*tchy fashion people, stat.
r u kidding me this is exactly wat true jackson starring keke palmer is about. This is stealing they should b ashamed of themselves