LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC is developing a TV series based on the strike Jennifer Lopez romantic funniness "Maid in Manhattan."
Lopez will help as an executive producer of the hour-long comedy-drama, which has received a pilot commitment. In the 2002 feature, she played a struggling single mother from the Bronx wHO works as a housemaid at a swanky Manhattan hotel. A rising political leader guest (Ralph Fiennes) falls for her after misinterpretation her for a loaded socialite.
"The show is a different maiden in a different Manhattan," said Chad Hodge, world Health Organization will write the script for the pilot.
The leash in the TV version will soundless be a young Latina from the Bronx working at a Manhattan hotel who tries to make up it in the populace. But the series will focus by and large on her relationships with co-workers.
"While the hotel's clientele is an obvious voice of this world, I'm more interested in the downstairs part of 'Upstairs, Downstairs,'" Hodge said, referring to the classic British series.
Lopez, a Bronx native, has been very involved, providing "a fountain of ideas," Hodge said. "She will be very intact in the pilot and series," he said.
This is the second time that ABC has taken a stab at a series adaptation of "Maid," following a script developed with a different writer during the 2004-05 development season.
"Maid" could be a suitable companion for the network's dramedy "Ugly Betty," which also centers on a hardworking young Latina in New York with big dreams. It, too, was shepherded by a Latina A-lister, Salma Hayek.
/Hollywood Reporter
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