ABC Picks Up Modern MY FAIR LADY Pilot from Creator of SUBURGATORY

A modern Eliza Doolittle may be heading to the small screen.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, ABC has ordered a pilot from SUBURGATORY's creator Emily Kapnek, titled SELFIE, and heavily inspried by the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe Broadway show - though the project is not a musical.

The single-camera comedy would follow "a self-obsessed 20-something woman who is more concerned with 'likes' than Being liked. After suffering a public and humiliating breakup, she becomes the subject of a viral video and suddenly has more social media 'followers' than she ever imagined -- but for all the wrong reasons. She enlists the help of a marketing expert at her company to help repair her tarnished image."

My Fair Lady is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Lerner and music by Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, so that she may pass as a well-born lady. The musical's 1956 Broadway production was a hit, setting what was then the record for the longest run of any major musical theatre production in history. It was followed by a hit London production, a popular film version, and numerous revivals. It has been called "the perfect musical".

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