ABC 'Doing It' with Teen Sex Drama

[Brian]

If the early phases of the development process are any indication, the fall of 2004 could be known as the Season of Teenage Sexuality. ABC has given a script commitment to "Doing It," a drama project from Stu Bloomberg, a former ABC entertainment president, and Touchstone TV-based producer Francie Calfo.
The series will be based on the controversial British novel of the same name by Melvin Burgess. Since its publication in the United Kingdom early this spring, Burgess has come under some fire for aiming his coming-of-age novel about three boys and their burgeoning sex lives at a young adult readers. While some groups have attacked the book as too graphic for its audience, others have praised it as an unflinching and honest depiction.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Freaks and Geeks" alums Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs are at work on scripting the pilot and will join Bloomberg and Calfo as executive producers.


Bloomberg is involved in several Touchstone TV projects for ABC, including a mob drama from "Pirates of the Caribbean" scribe Stuart Beattie and a police drama from Robert and Michelle King. Calfo is also involved with both projects.
Last week, FOX gave a script commitment to an untitled teen sex drama from "7th Heaven" creator Brenda Hampton. Given that some critics are already arguing that the failure of shows like FOX's "Skin" suggests that viewers are shying away from sexually bold primetime entries, it will be interesting to see if any of these speculative projects make it onto the networks' fall schedules.

[garfield hates mondays]

This country is going straight to hell.

[Josh]

Originally posted by smeagol wants fishess
This country is going straight to hell.

Hell seems like a lot of fun. Lot of hot, sexually adventurous chicks there.

I love America you'd all die of shock in the UK coz every channel's like HBO over here none of this sanatised network shite.

[Hayzen]

Yeah, which is very ironic because don't you guys also have very strict standards when it comes to violence on television? As opposed to America where we're really uptight about sex, but have no qualms showing rather graphic violence on television.

[Josh]

Originally posted by Hayzen
Yeah, which is very ironic because don't you guys also have very strict standards when it comes to violence on television? As opposed to America where we're really uptight about sex, but have no qualms showing rather graphic violence on television.

Hayzen, sometimes you just gotta blow shit up.

[Hayzen]

Haha, I wasn't complaining.

[Doom]

I'm definitely watching this, though I didn't even read the article. The headline's good enough for me.