But here we are in 2015 and Nip/Tuck and Glee creator Ryan Murphy has helped to create the age of the television anthology series with shows such as American Horror Story, American Crime and Scream Queens.
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Gwyneth Paltrow and director Ryan Murphy are working on a new musical TV dramedy. Paltrow will both star and executive produce.
The GOOP mogul will play a 40-year-old woman who’s “broke, exhausted and the victim of cat-fishing by her roommate”. But everything changes once the Mortdecai star gets a call from a record label looking to form a supergroup with her and two other singers who each had a hit song in the ’90s! However, most likely due to the rush of Quetzalcoatl-related relief that hit everyone in December of that year, we somehow forgot that One Hit Wonders was ever going to be a thing.
While the label has a hidden agenda, the group ends up catapulting into stardom and becomes an inspiration to women everywhere!
“I love this idea that there is a second act”, Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter. They sold the project to Sony in a seven-figure preemptive deal, but the rights have returned to Murphy after Amy Pascal’s exit from Sony earlier this year.
THR also notes that Murphy is planning One Hit Wonders as an anthology series, because apparently Glee taught him that a few very bad storylines just aren’t following for more than one season.
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Assuming Murphy’s project takes off, it’ll be fun to see Paltrow sing in a “super group” – presumably they’ll be writing a few original material for this show so they can sell it online.
