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Promising 'Privileged' recalls 'Gilmore Girls'
"Privileged" is the closest thing we've seen to that show since it left the air.
The new CW series, which premieres Tuesday at 8 p.m. on Ch. 30, is not a remake of "Gilmore Girls." It's a totally different situation with totally different characters.
But the tone, humor and heart of "Privileged" are reminiscent of the good ol' days of Lorelai and Rory.
"It's very much 'What if the Gilmore Girls were teaching the Gossip Girls?"' said executive producer Rina Mimoun, who worked on the final season of "Gilmore" and proved herself a superior show-runner on the made-in-Utah "Everwood."
Based on the book "How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls," by Zoey Dean, "Privileged" centers on 23-year-old Megan Smith (JoAnna Garcia, "Reba"), a smart, driven Yale grad for whom life is not going really well. In the first few minutes of Tuesday's premiere, her New York apartment burns up and she gets fired albeit from a job she didn't really want in the first place.
There's tragedy behind the billions. Laurel's husband died young, leaving her to build her empire. And, 10 years earlier, her daughter and son-in-law were killed, leaving her with Sage and Rose. She's hired Megan not only to tutor the girls and get them into Duke, but to be sort of a surrogate mother to them.
"What I loved about the 'Gilmore Girls' was the (upbeat) tone," Mimoun said. "And there was this tremendous sense of heart and this fantastic mother-daughter relationship that I think made it very accessible, not just for the teenagers, but for families to watch it together.
"I think that's really what we're sort of hoping to do on this show is kind of tap into that vein again."
She's plans to "play up all the fun they get to have on 'Gossip Girl' with the sort of money and privilege and wealth." But she'll come at it "from a different perspective, using Megan as our Lorelai ... to sort of bring it all back down to our earth."
At the same time, there's a "sort of wish fulfillment" of a middle-class girl suddenly thrust into the world of enormous wealth.
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