The CW’s Fall 2008 show

16 May 2008 Rob Buckley US TV 3 Comments

Not much new non-reality programming from struggling network The CW for its Fall schedule. In fact, only one new drama: Surviving the Filthy Rich.

It’s a drama adaptation of the Zoey Dean novel How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls, which centres on a Yale graduate who has moved to Manhattan, but finds nothing going to plan. When her job at a tabloid magazine turns sour, she accepts a position working for infamous teenage twins who are filthy rich, and unmarketable, as far as their grandmother and upper-echelon colleges are concerned.

Her challenge? Get them into an A-list university. Her reward? Ample pay, plus a significant check that will wipe out her hefty college loans.

Here’s the promo and what I’m seeing is the worst of Gossip Girl (mean rich kids) without any of the benefits (decent adult roles, some good romantic storylines, some charm). But then, I’m not exactly the target audience on this one.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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