{"id":452233,"date":"2010-03-20T17:26:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T21:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=97303"},"modified":"2010-03-20T17:26:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T21:26:28","slug":"lucy-liu-rihanna-courted-for-%e2%80%9ccharlie%e2%80%99s-angels%e2%80%9d-tv-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/452233","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Liu, Rihanna Courted For \u201cCharlie\u2019s Angels\u201d TV Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rumor:<\/strong> Charlie’s Angels<\/em> is returning to TV nearly 30 years after it left the air — thanks to big screen angel Drew Barrymore — and according to a scoop featured in the March 29 issue of GLOBE<\/em>, Lucy Liu and Rihanna may be putting on their halos for the new show.<\/p>\n

The island-born “Umbrella” star and Liu — who co-starred as Alex Munday alongside Barrymore and Cameron Diaz in two successful film adaptations of Aaron Spelling’s ’70s crime drama — are in the running for Angel roles on a new hour-long TV version of Charlie’s Angels<\/em>, the tabloid report claims.<\/p>\n

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TV industry insiders are predicting the revived Charlie’s Angels<\/em> could be a mega-moneymaker: after all, the original series launched the careers of Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, and Jaclyn Smith. <\/p>\n

“The girls we pick must be incredibly capable, but not take themselves too seriously,”<\/em> Drew says of the type of actresses she’s hoping to cast as sexy L.A.-based P.I.s on the new show.<\/p>\n

While acting novice Rihanna is rumored to be making her silver screen debut as a prostitute in an upcoming remake of the 1985 film The Last Dragon<\/em>, Lucy, on the other hand, is a seasoned vet. Barrymore is reportedly eager to bring on 41-year-old Liu in hopes that the TV role will help revive the minx’s somewhat fleeting career. Lucy’s work took a bit of a nosedive after the success of the Charlie’s Angels<\/em> film franchise. Her last two TV shows, Cashmere Mafia<\/em> and Dirty Sexy Money,<\/em> were both axed without ever seeing a third season. These days, the Queens-bred brunette is keeping busy by voicing a fairy named Silvermist for a series of Tinkerbell<\/em> DVDs.<\/p>\n

While the trio that will ultimately step into the roles of TV’s new Angels<\/em> is any one’s guess, there’s no question who will getting behind the speakerbox to voice often-heard, still-unseen millionaire Charlie Townsend. That role will be going to John Forsythe, 92, who played the same role in the original series. <\/p>\n

Charlie’s Angels<\/em> is expected to debut on ABC in the fall of 2011.<\/p>\n

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Rumor: Charlie’s Angels is returning to TV nearly 30 years after it left the air — thanks to big screen angel Drew Barrymore — and according to a scoop featured in the March 29 issue of GLOBE, Lucy Liu and Rihanna may be putting on their halos for the new show. The island-born “Umbrella” star […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}