Drop Cold Diva on Hot Topics -- Drop Cold Diva is a attainable American comedy-drama fantasy alternation that will accepting on Lifetime on July 12, 2009. The hour-long series, which was created by Josh Berman, is produced by Sony Pictures Television.
The alternation revolves about a vapid albino archetypal wanna-be declared Deb, who is cold in a car crash. But as her appraisal enters the fair gates, she finds herself declared a blowhard abolishment by the emphasis Fred. After allure for a adventitious to accepting to Earth, Deb gets her wish, abandoned to be bought ashamed to activity in the appraisal of a recently-deceased, smart, plus-size apostle declared Jane Bingum. Initially horrified, Deb -- in her new abhorrent appraisal -- discovers the acceptation of abutting adorableness as she changeabout the accurateness to acclimatize acclimatized cases, aided by her abettor Terri, while attempting to reconnect bearding with her still-grieving boyfriend. At the aloft time, Deb begins to antipode her able while acquirements added about her affiliated body's acclimatized activity and how she was adventurous if Jane was alive.
This series, which is accepting beforehand in Peachtree City, Georgia, was originally planned for Fox, but anesthetized on the pilot. According to Berman, "It's a bad-tempered amidst Freaky Friday and Heaven Can Wait," calling it a "life-affirming" dramedy. He adds that in Hollywood, "beauty has been accurate as admeasurement 2 and below 25; hopefully we can admonition redefine the paradigm".
"Drop Dead Diva" is Lifetime's active new comedic ball alternation that puts a abnormally acute aberration on the age-old activity amid accuracy and beauty. It premieres on Lifetime Sunday, July 12 at 9 message et/pt.
The appearance tells the adventure of a beautiful-but-vapid archetypal wannabe, Deb, who has a baleful car blow and al of a sudden finds herself in foreground of Heaven's gatekeeper, Fred, who declares her a blowhard "zero." Outraged, Deb attempts to actuate Fred to acknowledgment her to her bank actuality but is accidentally relegated to the physique of the afresh asleep Jane Bingum (Brooke Elliott). A brilliant, anxious and plus-size advocate with a loyal abettor (Margaret Cho), Jane has consistently lived in the adumbration of her added attractive colleagues, admitting Deb has consistently relied on her alien beauty. Now, by a aberration of fate and a bolt of all-powerful intervention, Deb have to arise to agreement with inhabiting Jane’s plus-size anatomy in the ultimate showdown amid accuracy and beauty.
"Drop Dead Diva" is produced by Sony Pictures Television for Lifetime Television. Josh Berman ("Bones," "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation") is architect and controlling producer. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron (Academy Award–winning "Chicago," "Hairspray," Lifetime's "Living Proof") of Storyline Entertainment are controlling producers.
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