14 DAY TRIAL // In what may be a surprising move, the network E! has announced the launch of a new celebrity reality show, this time starring ‘90s screen siren Lara Flynn Boyle.
This is the same network that is also behind the highly successful “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” and its many spin-offs, including the recent “Kourtney and Kim Take New York” of which we also told you yesterday.
Now, E! is looking to expand its line of celebrity docu-series by getting Boyle to appear in her own – which, apparently, will document the duality of her life, as Entertainment Weekly puts it.
“E! – the network that has brought us such gems as Kourtney Kardashian and Joel McHale (and, yes, you too Mankini) – is lassoing another star into its family: he network has picked up a reality show pilot starring The Practice star Lara Flynn Boyle,” EW says.
“Cameras will follow the actress as she ‘splits her time between her life in Texas and her marriage to real estate investor Donald Ray Thomas II and her Hollywood-centric lifestyle in Bel Air’,” the same report says citing from the press release.
Even if it means stating out the obvious, Boyle hasn’t had a major role since she did a few episodes of “Huff,” “The Practice,” “Men in Black II” and, of course, “Twin Peaks” (which is different from saying she hasn’t worked at all).
Moreover, in recent years, she seems to have gotten more headlines for her apparent love of plastic surgery, Botox and fillers (and of Jack Nicholson before that), so there is little obvious reason to make a reality show about her life.
This is about the same point that EW, together with many other voices online, argues: the term that would be describe the new show is probably “wacky.”
“Hmm. I would say the show sounds ‘complicated,’ but surely it cannot be, since Denise Richards colon (three words I probably shouldn’t place together) already took that title. So how about… Lara Flynn Boyle: It’s Annoying Removing Your Shoes at Security?” EW writes.
“And though I honestly have no idea what Boyle’s like in ‘real’ life, I give you two reasons to be excited about her future in the genre: 1) Boyle’s smoking Punk’d episode was all kinds of amazing and 2) We are talking about an actress who once wore this dress to the Golden Globes,” EW says.
“And the person who dons this sort of outfit is either a wacky Baby Jane-esque hermit desperately attempting to recapture her days as an 8-year-old spinning happily under the spotlight, or a wacky celebrity. Either way, wacky is the key word here,” the same report says.
Further details on the show have not yet been made public – however, if this piqued your interest, make sure you keep an eye on this space here for updates.