Charlie's Angels TV Info

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A thief, a street racer and a cop who got too deep… these women are no saints, but they are angels.

There’s Abby (Rachael Taylor), a Park Avenue princess who became a world-class thief. Then there’s Kate (Annie Ilonzeh), a Miami cop who fell from grace, losing both her career and her fiancé. Finally there’s Gloria, a disgraced army lieutenant who has a way with explosives. When one of the angels’ missions ends in Gloria’s tragic death, Charlie persuades them to partner with Gloria’s childhood friend, Eve (Minka Kelly), a street racer with a mysterious past. They may not know each other yet, but one thing’s for sure — Abby, Kate and Eve will always have each others’ backs.

Lucy Liu may have played Alex Munday in the hit Charlie’s Angels flicks, but that doesn’t mean she’s looking to reprise the role anytime soon.

At least not in the upcoming television reboot produced by costar Drew Barrymore…

“I think we did our fair share in the two movies, so I think I’m going to leave it up to the new girls,” Liu told us the other day at the premiere of her new flick, Kung Fu Panda 2.

And when we caught up with Anne Ilonzeh, the hottie newcomer who plays Kate in the ABC series, she said she hasn’t heard anything about her boss Barrymore popping up on the show. However, she also said there’s plenty being kept under wraps, including a “huge twist” in the pilot.

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According to Deadline, ABC’s Charlie’s Angels reboot has found the three women whose litheness and bone structure will make or break its success: Minka Kelly—Friday Night Lights star, Esquire’s “Sexiest Woman Alive” of 2010, and object of Leighton Meester’s unhealthy fixation in The Roommate—will play a former U.S. Marine and “weapons expert trained in all forms of hand-to-head combat.” Yes, it says “hand-to-head;” yes, this character will be played by Minka Kelly. But this won’t be some sort of fantastic, only-on-TV caricature: She’s also “a neat freak,” so she’s recognizably human.

She’ll be joined by Transformers star Rachael Taylor as Abby, “the youngest and sassiest of the Angels, the beautiful and privileged daughter of a notorious Wall Street crook who is an expert con artist herself, as well as a Krav Maga expert.” Of course, what daughter of privilege is not skilled in the ways of the long grift and Israeli combat techniques? Kelly and Taylor round out a team that includes the previously cast Annie Ilonzeh, a former General Hospital star who will play Kate, “a very smart and very athletic ex-cop and a master of martial arts”—naturally—who, although being the “serious” one, “also knows how to let her hair down and have a great time.” Unfortunately there are only three Angels, so there was no room for a quiet, bookish type who’s also a multilingual master of disguise, a student of Monkey Kung Fu, a reincarnated 19th-century charwoman, and always getting pregnant. Maybe when Minka Kelly leaves?

Well, no, not really, but I can’t help but wince at the fact that the new Charlie’s Angels pilot will have a young, good-looking Bosley who is described in the script’s stage directions as “a perfect specimen of 21st-century American manhood.” Why? Because for many of us — okay, me — Charlie’s Angels made the most sense if you looked at it as the tragedy of John Bosley, a schlubby-looking, scratchy-voiced man who clearly can’t get a girl under most circumstances. He’s surrounded by beautiful women whom he cannot have, and who treat him like their ugly sister. And he’s working for a guy who can apparently have any woman he wants and never has to do any actual work. Think what goes on in that man’s mind. Clearly, if Charlie’s Angels had run another season they would have revealed the big twist: Bosley has been in hell all this time, and this is his eternal torture — created by an unseen, all-powerful god who prefers to be called “Charlie.”

I actually think the script of the pilot is not bad, if you remember that “not bad” for this kind of show means it can — nay, must — include a heaping helping of cheese. It also includes a cute idea of paying homage to the original title sequence (and the interstitial sequences leading into commercial breaks) by calling for a split-screen technique that seems like 24, except with the screen cut into different shapes. Then again, I thought the script of the Rockford Files remake wasn’t bad, and that pilot went nowhere thanks to casting and execution problems. If this one winds up the same way, the producers can always blame the director too.

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