EXCLUSIVE: Showtime is developing Boycrazy, a half-hour comedy based on Alexi Wasser’s provocative blog ImBoyCrazy.com, with Wasser attached to star and Lynda Obst to executive produce. Wasser will co-create the potential series with Daisy Gardner (Californication), who will serve as showrunner. Boycrazy centers on a girl (Wasser) looking for love, purpose, and the meaning of her life, one dude at a time. It follows her as she tries to navigate the world of sexuality in the post-modern society of Los Angeles while trying to find real love. 3 Arts Entertainment is producing, with WME-repped Gardner, Obst and 3 Arts’ Dave Becky and Alan Rautbort executive producing. Wasser is with Don Buchwald & Assoc. This is the latest Internet property to migrate to TV. CBS’ sitcom $#*! My Dad Says was based on the Twitter feed, CBS is developing 2 more Twitter feed-based comedies for next season, Dear Girls Above Me and Shh … Don’t Tell Steve, while ABC is working on a series based on the Awkward family Photos blog. And Showtime recently acquired Lisa Kudrow’s Web Therapy videos to convert them into three 5-minute interstitials.
The slogan of Wasser’s ImBoyCrazy.com is A pep talk in the form of a slap in the face in the form of a blog. She shares experiences – as the name of the blog suggests mostly about men, relationships and sex – and shells out advice in writing and through live webcasts. Here are some PG-rated recent examples and a video promo for the blog:
If you and your crush share at least 15 mutual facebook friends, it’s totally meant to be.
If you meet a guy and IMMEDIATLY get your period, it means you’re soul mates.
There’s nothing sadder than a hot dude in BAD shoes!
Running in public is for assholes.
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Boy Crazy Promo from alexi wasser on Vimeo.
When does this trend of making TV shows out of blogs end? I just poured myself a mug of bleach.
Everything I need to know about the quality of her writing, I know from her picture. Like, you actually posed for that?
This woman is awful. She is vicious- she really, truly hates fat people and says some of the dumbest, racist and/or classist shit ever.
My friend and I stumbled across the blog a while back and were so mortified we always check up on it every few months with updates like, “Yup, she’s still awful”.
Just a few I found on cursory glance.
“using abortions as birth control is TOTALLY not cool! unless you really love him!”
“women need to start acting more like gay men: fierce, bold, & empowered!
straight dudes need to stop acting soooo much like gay men.”
Thank you for your wisdom, you awful person, you.
Read more: http://jezebel.com/5676731/blog+based-boycrazy-comedy-coming-to-showtime#ixzz13mcw9JUy
Is she available?
yes. she is definitely single.
This elitist wimpy indie american apparel scenester stuff is over with. Hollywood is always 10 years behind. So are some girls with blogs.
Couldn’t agree with you more. Scenester scene is over, over and done. She thinks looking for love is hard? Try raising 3 kids as a FT working (writer/producer) mom in Hollywood. Finding a man is easy. Potty training? Not.
Doesn’t “Parenthood” fill your empty soul with enough stories about how hard it is to raise kids? Besides, do you actually have time to watch TV? My wife and I fall asleep in front of Jeopardy we’re so tired at night.
don’t shit on someone else because of your problems. potty training might be hard, but it is boring. if you feel like your lifestyle isn’t being represented on television go watch reruns of everybody loves raymond and let other people get their shot.
The only problem is why waste our time because you’ve got “source material” and can say it’s a defendable decision because every other network is doing it? And oh yeah, another Everybody Loves Raymond would be great because that was a great show and this promises to be another blogtastic crapfest!
The real question is why not just remake Sex and the City? Perhaps it’s not “post-modern” enough.
You’re right. Who needs some fun new show about a girl running around having sexy, funny adventures? Boring! God, if people liked shit like that, ‘Sex and the city’ would have been a hit. Oh wait, it was. You sound like a boring, ugly, bitter, hater. You don’t want to watch it? Don’t watch it. Stay home, wipe your kids ass, and milk your shriveled saggy tits while your husband cheats on you with someone who isn’t so exhausted, angry, bitter, and jealous. Alexi has done nothing to you. At least watch it before you decide you hate it. Or don’t. It doesn’t matter either way. ‘Parenthood’ and ‘Everybody Love Raymond’ IS time consuming enough, I’m sure.
whoa– back it up Jess… take a breath hon, it ain’t even worth all that, it’s just entertainment.
STFU, this girl is a freaking pie face with no wit. To make it in what she is trying to do you need to be hot, smart as hell, or the luckiest bitch on earth, and she doesn’t look lucky. It’s lame, lame, lame. You’ll need to find someone else’s coattails to grab on to.
Solid. A breath of fresh estrogen. A show for the majority of the population. Bring on the elitist, the wimpy and the independent.
A show for the majority of the population, you say? Really?
“…looking for love, purpose, and the meaning of her life, one dude at a time.”
Sure, the pursuit of love, of purpose and of the meaning of life IS certainly a concern of the majority of the population. But the show’s notion that she’ll find that in “a dude”, let alone “one dude at a time” is NOT. There are a great many ways that women (and men) find love, purpose and meaning out there, but not enough shows reflect this.
I agree. I am so over the entitled, blog, indie-chic, once again hollywood, if we are going to do YOUNG girls, lets make it honest and realistic for girls everywhere, and if we’re gonna do hollywood, lets really do it. PLEASE no more twitter blog shows please please please
That blog looks brain-dead. Sorry, Showtime, it’s a bad idea. We don’t need (more) people who are so full of themselves and think they know it all on tv.
Gross.
So, I guess its okay with Showtime, Lind Obst, etc. to support a person who posts that it’s totally cool to get AIDS from someone as long as you love them. Awesome work, Showtime. Super cool move.
Alexi must live in my neighborhood — I seem to run into her at every turn. Unfortunately she’s not boy crazy for me.
Can’t imagine this will work with the blogger starring in this ( unless I am reading that wrong). Showtime series are headlined by A list talent find it odd they wouldn’t find someone to play her.
And I’d much rather see a show based on a blog then rehashing old tv shows – Munsters, Charlies Angels etc.
She’s actually an amazing actor! Check her out in Audrey the Trainwreck.
Oh, and this will be an awesome episode: (Directly from her blog,btw)
2. it’s not rape if you’re sleeping.
3. whoops, my bad, my bad. what i meant was: it’s not rape if he’s super cute!
Wow… how progressive.
So glad a woman like that is getting a show, advancing this kind of noxious shit.
She’s being ironic. This is her dark sense of humor. Don’t take things so literally. Ever heard of Sarah Silverman? Half of Alexi’s blog is warm and vulnerable, and the other half is her dark twisted sense of humor.
OK… I’ll open my mind a bit (even if I have to get out the can-opener). But that sort of humor takes great skill to pull off deftly, and I’m not seeing Silverman in her, not yet. Maybe the medium isn’t working in her favor… hard to pull off irony via type on the internet. Perhaps the show will be a better home for her brand of humor.
She isn’t being ironic. I’ve read the blog thoroughly. She spews whatever comes into her mind – that’s her right, and I don’t deny her that. But she doesn’t have enough experience, self-awareness and/or education to understand irony. A quick spin through her posts reveals the truth. And “that’s just her sense of humor” doesn’t get her off the hook for saying offensive, idiotic and hurtful things. And I’m not sure the Sarah Silverman train is the kind of success this network would be hoping for.
I want to shit on this but I actually always find her blog funny.
“Post-modern society?”
Someone trying to sound smart without knowing the meaning of the words they use.
I don’t think that word means what they think it means.
And I’d much rather watch a show about someone looking for fake love.
because being condescending is preferable
it’s preferable to being a professional writer who doesn’t know what words mean.
Hmmmm…..on hiatus?
From her about me page: “ultimately, all i really want is to be liked. there, i said it.”
I read a couple of pages of her blog, and wanted to punch her in the face.
Why anyone thinks this will make a good TV show is completely beyond me. TV Execs — stay away from twitter, facebook and blogs. These are the realms of the vacuous and self-important. Nobody likes them — except other bloggers.
she’s totally in love with herself. just isn’t that funny.
This looks fantastic! Finally a network that’s doing something right!
Isn’t this the same thing as the Gary Sanchez show at HBO with Lizzy Caplan? Just set in NY..
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-RnsW
one Diablo Cody is more than enough. this looks hideous.
Yeah, but Diablo Cody is hot. And smart. And funny. So, I guess there’s still only one.
No one thinks Diablo Cody is hot. Sorry. No one.
Is that a man?
Ugh… Showtime programming is just going to continue to churn out this crap. 1) this blog sucks 2) this idea sucks 3) Nevins needs to stop playing it safe by doing what everyone else is doing (buying blogs), and only buying shows with huge auspices and actually do what put showtime on the map…. taking chances, making risky decisions… this is cookie cutter crap.
They’re using her because she also tries to be an actress when she’s not blogging. She’s the peppermint patty commercial chick. Of course, she doesn’t speak in that one, so…
I find her blog to be silly and like reading something written by a 16 year old in dire need of attention, saying thing she think will sound cool or shock others. *yawn*
Why is everyone so threatened by this?
She’s obviously put time into making a persona, and she has a viewpoint-no one claimed her viewpoint was going to remake the earth or anything-there is a place in entertainment for stuff like this. Her videos and blog just show she’s making an effort to get what she wants in life, and look it’s working.
I get it if you don’t think she’s funny or something, but there’s real animosity.
Everyone on TV is into self-promotion. Somehow this is different???
Real animosity? Calm down, slugger. As you said, I just don’t find her funny. I don’t find her compelling. I actually find her blog to be what’s wrong with women – chicks like her make guys think chicks like me are idiots. Vapid, self-absorbed, hipsters. Where are the strong women?? The ones with jobs, lives, men (or women)? The ones not talking about how they fuck someone and have to scurry out because they don’t feel worthy of even a conversation after?
But hey, this is obviously your thing.
*things
this show is gonna be a smash hit. the topic is classic. and alexi is a star without a doubt.
Thank God I will never have to go on a date with this girl.
I love her blog to death and have been a dedicated follower for almost two years now. A show though? Not sure about that. But I think it definitely has the potential to be amazing if done right.
Shitting other peoples is what America is all about but watching Alexi or any other do-nothing party girl celebrate her smug sycophantic lifestyle while being paid for it is miserable. Jealousy will get you nowhere but big tits will.