Logo Plans A ‘Sordid’ Fall
Humorous Series, Based On Shores's Play And Film, Currently Filming In Louisiana
By Mike Reynolds -- Multichannel News, 1/8/2008 5:26:00 AM
Production has begun on Sordid Lives: The Series an original scripted comedy for Logo about a dysfunctional southern family based on the 1996 play and 2000 film of the same name. The 12 half hours, currently being shot in Louisiana, are slated to premiere on Logo in fall 2008, according to officials at the MTV Networks’ service targeting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
The series will take a humorous look at a dysfunctional family and the denizens of Winters, Texas, as well as an institutionalized brother who channels Tammy Wynette. It also chronicles the doings of handsome young son of one of the sisters who is struggling with coming out to his Texas Republican Baptist family while pursuing an acting career in Los Angeles.
Like the play and film, the series is created, written and directed by Del Shores. It stars Bonnie Bedelia (Die Hard, The Division), Beth Grant (No Country for Old Men, Little Miss Sunshine), Emmy Award-winner Rue McClanahan (The Golden Girls), Olivia Newton-John (Grease) and Caroline Rhea (Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, The Caroline Rhea Show).
Guest stars will include Margaret Cho, Candis Cayne, Carson Kressley and Georgette Jones, the daughter of Tammy Wynette, playing her mother in a dream sequence, as well as Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan (Will & Grace) who will appear in several episodes, reprising his award-winning role of “Brother Boy.” In fact, most of the stage and film cast will reprise their roles, save for McClanahan and Rhea, who did not appear in the original film. Additionally, Grammy winner Newton-John will perform five new original songs exclusively for the show.
In development at Logo, which now counts some 30 million subscribers, for the past two years, the show is produced by Stanley Brooks, Shores and Damian Ganczewski for Once Upon A Time Films (AMC’s Emmy Award-winning miniseries Broken Trail).
“These TV and film icons populate Del Shores’ amplified southern family brilliantly,” said Brian Graden, President, MTV Networks Music Group Entertainment; and President, Logo, in a statement.
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