ABC picks up two TV shows based on a dating blog and a female cop—for the ladies
ABC struck two bold blows for femininity today, snapping up both a blog-based sitcom about dating woes and another about a cop who is also a lady. The first, Dealbreaker, has nothing whatsoever to do with the 30 Rock-spawned fake talk show Dealbreakers (in fact, it seems to have debuted online a good five months before “Dealbreakers” was ever mentioned on the show), however its premise is essentially the same: It’s based on this here Tumblr blog of various reasons why you shouldn’t date a person, even though we all walk alone on this big, spinning ball hurtling through cold and lonely space, and who are you to judge? Dealbreaker should make a great companion piece to ABC’s recently adopted Awkward Family Photos show, in that they’re both essentially context-free assemblies of amusing images and one-joke punchlines that will somehow be spun into weekly, standard sitcom narratives, because why should CBS get to rehash all the Internet’s ideas?