LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC is development a TV series based on the hit Jennifer Lopez quixotic comedy "Maid in Manhattan." (Theo Wargo/WireImage/Getty Images )
Lopez will serve as an executive producer of the hour-long comedy-drama, which has received a pilot commitment. In the 2002 feature of speech, she played a struggling single mother from the Bronx world Health Organization works as a amah at a swanky Manhattan hotel. A rising politician guest (Ralph Fiennes) falls for her after misinterpretation her for a loaded socialite.
"The show is a different maidservant in a different Manhattan," said Chad Hodge, world Health Organization will spell the book for the pilot.
The lead in the TV version will placid be a young Latina from the Bronx working at a Manhattan hotel who tries to make it in the populace. But the series testament focus by and large on her relationships with co-workers.
"While the hotel's business is an obvious part of this world, I'm more interested in the downstairs contribution of 'Upstairs, Downstairs,"' Hodge said, referring to the classic British series.
Lopez, a Bronx native, has been very involved, providing "a fountain of ideas," Hodge said. "She will be very built-in in the pilot and series," he said.
This is the second time that ABC has taken a stab at a series adaptation of "Maid," following a script developed with a different writer during the 2004-05 development season.
"Maid" could be a worthy companion for the network's dramedy "Ugly Betty," which also centers on a hardworking young Latina in New York with big dreams. It, too, was shepherded by a Latina A-lister, Salma Hayek.
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