I’m glad to hear that Kevin Falls from Journeyman is doing another show for Fox and not NBC. It’s not like Fox has a great track record either, but it would have been ridiculous for NBC to cancel a guy’s show, and then have him do another pilot.
This business leaves me scratching my head on most days.
But don’t get too excited yet that Falls will be back on TV. I loved the idea for Journeyman, enjoyed the stories and really dug the characters, but this new pilot may already be on the “skip it” list.
It’s based on the Argentina telenovela hit called Lalola and is about a womanizing man who is transformed into a woman – and must endure the same treatment he used to dish out to the opposite sex.
The show will be set at a sports management firm and will also include the entertainment and fashion world.
My apologies to Falls, because I REALLY wish Journeyman had been saved, but the idea of a show about a dude trapped inside a woman’s body doesn’t do it for me. Not in the slightest.
What about you guys? Ugh?
Ok Jina, know it wasnt me who brought it up, your boy did…. ” because I REALLY wish Journeyman had been saved” …. ME FRAKIN TOO, CAN YOU EVEN BELIEVE THEY CANCELLED IT!?!?!?! WTFRAK!!!!!
Ok, I got that out of my system for the day…. =)
I miss it too
This sounds like a horrible idea… like one that would come out of a Mad-Lib game or something… poor Journeyman.
Yeah I just cehcked the date and its not April 1st… this premise is really bad…
“Mad-Lib” – hilarious
Actually, if it's one of the funny, over the top telenovelas and they pair it with Ugly Betty, it could make for a fun two-hour block.
Then again, I don't watch Ugly Betty since it's opposite NBC's Thursday comedies.
Not only is this a show I wouldn't watch. It's the type of show I would normally actively campaign against.
Let the Lalola bashing begin!
On a side note, the official name for the series hasn't been chosen yet.
Yeah I like journeyman a lot better. They seem to be canceling all the good shows lately -_-
Anything based on a Telanova is a BAD idea.
Hey guys great news…Lalola ruled…and so it will in the US! Go to YouTube, if you know any spanish you'll understand and you'll see it's just hilarious, is not only about a guy trapped in a woman's body…it's about everyday life issues, war between people at work, competitiveness and values…it was just amazing for us…they won countless awards and they'll have a second season…their fans just fell in love with the series and can't wait to know more about it…If they do it in English…it will be gift for the world…and a second chance for Argentinians to enjoy such great story.
Xoxo.
Well, hopefully the English version wont follow the fate of shows like Coupling.
But if you give it such praise, perhaps it may be worth at least watching the pilot.
Yo Mike:
Recently discovered this website and just read your December 19, 2007 recap of the final episode of Journeyman, one of the best new shows from last fall.
Man, that recap was spot on. Everything you wrote was perfect. Keep up the good work!
Thanks IDR, glad you liked it and hope you stick around. We do tons of
recaps, just wait for the fall! As you can see, we're even doing a few now
As for Journeyman, I friggin' loved that show, writing the recaps came easy
and I'm so bummed that no more recaps will ever be written.
Wow, I just re-read that recap too, and all the memories came back about how much I loved it.
I forgot about the scene of Katie seeing Dan leave at the end…it still gives me goosebumps
I agree. And you nailed it in the final recap. Everything that made the show so good. The premise, the acting, the production, the writing, the direction… but especially the relationship between Dan and Katie. Perfection! Actress Gretchen Egolf was perfectly cast in that role. She could do more with one look or expression than any line of dialog to convey the moment.
I attempted to read anything I could find on Journeyman as the series was coming to an end and of the lot, your recap was easily one of the best takes on the show. A show that was just too damn intelligent for the majority of TV viewers.
I will continue to check this site and read your work.
Falls' “Lalola” – is it the American version of the Argentine version of an American play, written by George Axelrod, with screenplay by Harry Kurnitz, called “Goodbye Charlie”? (1964 and, as far as I can tell, out of copyright.) It is the story of a man trapped inside the body of woman who must suffer the slings and arrows of the treatment he dished-out to women when he was a man.
No idea…there are other comparisons too, like the movie Switch that was out in the 1980s.
Who was in “Switch” and how did they accomplish their task? “Goodbye Charlie” puts a man into a woman's body by an unexplained, uncontroled, and involuntary “twist of fate”. As I've heard around – just as in Lalola and the Kevin Falls version as well.
Actually a bit different. From IMDB (movie came out in 1991):
A sexist, chauvinist pig gets his just desserts when his angry
ex-girlfriends murder him and he is reincarnated as a woman
Funny, that's EXACTLY what happens in “Goodbye Charlie” except the sexist, chauvinist pig gets his just desserts when an angry husband of one of Charlie's women murders him and he is reincarnated as a woman.
I just Googled “Switch” and except that the writer is noted as Blake Edwads, after seeing the poster I remember that “Switch” was the name given to the 1991 REMAKE of “Goodbye Charlie”.
So are they all related or what?
They are not related. They are all the exact same work to which assorted people have attached their own names.
“Goodbye Charlie” was a play whose movie rights were sold to be turned into the 1964 movie by the same name – “Goodbye Charlie”.
“Switch” was the 1991 remake of “Goodbye Charlie – heaven knows if Blake Edwards also purchased the rights to “Goodbye Charlie”. I haven't found anything to indicate that he did.
According to what I've heard of the story line – Lalola is the Argentine version of “Goodbye Charlie”/”Switch”
Kevin Falls' effort will be the American version of the Argentine version of someone else's idea and work that not only was a movie, (twice), but which was originally a play on which George Axelrod owns the copyright,
Very original – not.
Yeah, I still can't get on board this…it just doesn't seem interesting to
me at all.