Fox has ordered 13 episodes of “The North Shore,” an “Upstairs, Downstairs” look at a Hawaiian luxury hotel, its guests and its staff. Formerly titled “Oahu,” the drama stars Kristoffer Polaha (“America’s Prince”), Rob Estes (“Melrose Place”) and Navi Rawat (“The O.C.”).
“It’s a very commercial idea with some very compelling characters at the center of it,” Craig Erwich, executive VP at Fox, tells The Hollywood Reporter. The Fox drama has no connection to the WB’s reality series “Boarding House: North Shore.”
The pickup of “North Shore” is Fox’s second early scheduling move in less than a week. The network, which vowed to begin year-round scheduling last summer, snagged 13 episodes of the comedy “Method & Red” last week.
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Fox has promised the premieres of several new series this summer, a strategy which helped turn “The O.C.” into a demographic hit last year, but which failed to draw audiences to “Keen Eddie.”
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