CBS buys new show for morons
Having enjoyed great success with The Big Bang Theory—its show about two very smart yet awkward and TV-version-of-unattractive men, who find their lives rocked by a beautiful girl who moves in next door—CBS is now eager to reverse that formula, rather than doing something else. Deadline reports that it’s just snapped up Gorgeous Morons, a show that turns sitcom convention on its ear by concerning “two stunningly handsome but dumb brothers, a model and a personal trainer, who find their lives rocked by their new roommate, a female literature PhD. who is merely very attractive”—i.e. she’s gorgeous by most reasonable standards, but likely wears glasses, and maybe sometimes a cardigan. “Ugh. You are, at best, very attractive,” her roommates’ handsome model friends will say when turning her down for dates, after which she probably offers a smart-mouthed reply, then secretly goes to cry on some books.