“Maid in Manhattan” Coming To TV Screens
‘Maid In Manhattan’, the rom com starring jennifer Lopez is to be adapted for the small screen according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The series will air on US TV network, ABC, will be wriiten by Chad Hodge and executive produced by Lopez, Joe Roth and the film’s producer, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas.
“The show is a different maid in a different Manhattan,” Hodge said.
Although the lead in the TV version will still be a young Latina from the Bronx working at a Manhattan hotel who tries to make it in the world, the series will not focus on a romance with a high powered man, but on her relationships with her co-workers and friends.
“While the hotel’s clientele is an obvious part of this world, I’m more interested in the downstairs part of ‘Upstairs, Downstairs,’ ” Hodge said.


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