After creating a show for A&E about Boston teamsters called Teamsters (and sadly not Teamstahs), Mark Wahlberg is executive producing a show for the network about four tough-ass Boston women. The show was inspired by the scene-stealing, super Boston-y sisters in The Fighter that we all fell in love with. Amy Adams should probably skip the premiere of this one — she doesn't want to get a black eye before Oscar season.
- 11/16/2012
- Vulture
Exclusive: Mark Wahlberg‘s Oscar-nominated feature The Fighter is the inspiration for a docu reality series. Wahlberg executive produces the half-hour project, which has received a pilot order from A&E. Inspired by the scene-stealing, big-haired, loud-talking, punch-throwing sisters of Wahlberg’s Micky Ward and Christian Bale’s Dicky Eklund in Fighter, the untitled Mark Wahlberg Boston Women Project showcases the real women of Boston, featuring the day-to-day life of four of these tough, hard-as-nails women who juggle family, work, and relationships all while remaining true to their way of life. Wahlberg is executive producing through his Closest to the Hole Prods, along with frequent collaborator Stephen Levinson of Leverage, Bill Thompson of Bill Thompson Prods Inc and veteran reality producer Stephanie Drachkovitch of 44 Blue Prods. Filming is slated to begin in a few weeks. This is the second Boston-set docu reality pilot at A&E for Wahlberg, Levinson and Thompson,...
- 11/16/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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