Outrageous Fortune: US Pilot!

In a first for an Antipodean television drama, ABC network (USA) has given the go ahead on the pilot episode for the US version of South Pacific Pictures’ successful drama series Outrageous Fortune.

Rob Thomas (Cupid, Veronica Mars) wrote the script, which is based on the hit New Zealand series created by Rachel Lang and James Griffin.

Thomas will also act as Executive Producer on the show.

A fourth series of OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE is currently in production and will screen on TV3 in New Zealand in mid-2008. Previous series of the show screened on channels Nine, Ten and Foxtel in Australia.

A UK version of OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE has also been adapted for ITV. Honest was produced by Greenlit Rights and starred Amanda Redman.

Source: http://www.variety.com/

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  • Kayla

    Hey very cool! Rob Thomas rocks so it should be a great show. He’s also writing a script right now for the Beverly Hills 90210 spin-off show… and don’t forget Dawson’s Creek <3

  • Katie Katie

    Ooh wow! Will we see this in New Zealand?

    Here’s a clip from Honest….. pretty funny to watch and imagine our actors in it:

  • gyro

    fantastic news!!!

    not to mention ABC will be showing it and they have the best marketing machine in the world.

  • Tui

    Oh awesome! Hope TVNZ picks this up :D
    Will it still be called O.F?

  • ChchTVaddict

    Too cool Can’t wait to see who the US cast

  • nanisnap

    HAHA! it would be pretty funny if TVNZ got it!

  • Rachel

    The Hollywood reporter has picked up on this story and describes Outrageous Fortune as a “dramedy in which the matriarch of a family of criminals decides it is time for her brood to go straight when her husband ends up in the clink for five years.”

    They also say Rob Thomas will executive produce with SPP’s John Barnett.

    “Michael Larkin, Michael Goldstein, Bruce Cervi and John Lansing will serve as co-exec producers, while Danielle Stokdyk and Jennifer Gwartz will produce.”

  • everythingshiny

    I’m interested in this project. I’m a Kiwi living in the UK at the moment, and I watched the first episode of Honest, then turned it off in disgust. It’s EXACTLY the same as the NZ version, other than a few changed lines and different actors. You have to ask yourself, what’s the point? OF does it beautifully, why remake it word for word, why not just watch the original? However the Rob Thomas version of the show hopefully shows more promise. I hope it’s a very loose adaptation of the original, perhaps with similar characters in the immediate family, but with completely different storylines. Anyone who watched VERONICA MARS will know that Rob is a creative genius. I have my fingers firmly crossed for this one.

    Rob Thomas will be a busy man though…he has had two more pilot scripts picked up by ABC…the Beverly Hills 90210 spinoff, and a re-write (?) of his formerly cancelled show Cupid.

  • Tui

    HAHA! it would be pretty funny if TVNZ got it!

    It would, and I’m sure that TVNZ has the contract to screen abc content in NZ so I wouldn’t be surprised if they pick it up (seeing as TV3 wouldn’t be able to).