Following the success of its backstage look at “Three’s Company” last season, NBC is planning a movie about another 1970s TV hit–the tumult on the set in the early days of “Charlie’s Angels,” a Top 20 hit for most of its run on ABC.
Francine McDougall (“Sugar & Spice”) has signed on to direct. Casting for the movie, which will be called “Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of ‘Charlie’s Angels,’ ” hasn’t started yet, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
NBC also used the “Behind the Camera” sobriquet for its “Three’s Company” movie. Like that film, the “Charlie’s Angels” movie will focus heavily on backstage turmoil, particularly during the show’s first season when Farrah Fawcett became a breakout star and then promptly left the series.
About 10 million people watched the “Three’s Company” movie when it debuted in May. It also was one of last season’s top-rated original movies among adults 18-49, the demographic group by which NBC measures its success.
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Edited by Cara DiPasquale ([email protected]) and Kris Karnopp ([email protected]).