IN Clueless TV series, based on the hit 1995 feature, is in development at Peacock.
As Deadline previously reported exclusively, the project, which comes from writers Jordan Reddout and Gus Hickey (Will & Grace) and CBS TV Studios, has been in development since last October, but no network or streaming service was connected.
The series centers around the Dionne character played by Stacey Dash in the film and the adaptation of the 1996 series.
Written by Reddout and Hickey, the new Clueless is described as a baby pink and bisexual blue-tinted, spicy sunglasses-wearing, hate milk latte and Adderall-driven look at what happens when high school queen bee Cher disappears and her lifelong No. 2 Dionne steps into Cher’s low-lying Air Jordans. How does Dionne deal with the pressure of being the new most popular girl at school while also discovering the mystery of what happened to her best friend?
American Gothic en No tomorrow creator Corinne Brinkerhoff and her development executive Tiffany Grant produce executive through the overall deal of Brinkerhoff at CBS TV Studios, as well as Robert Lawrence, who was a producer on the Clueless film, and Eli Bush.
CBS TV Studios co-wrote the TV rights to the 1995 Paramount feature directed by Amy Heckerling, starring Alicia Silverstone as Cher, Dash as Dionne and Brittany Murphy and Paul Rudd. CBS TV Studios’ predecessor, Paramount Network Television, was behind the 1996 comedy series Clueless, made by Heckerling, which ran three seasons, one on ABC and two on UPN.
De Clueless TV series, which follows the premise of the movie Chronicles of the Adventures of Cher Horowitz, a California girl who attended Bronson Alcott High, starring Rachel Blanchard as Cher since Silverstone was unavailable, with Dash repeating her role as Dionne.
