The CW remaking the 1980s Beauty And The Beast

CW president Mark “Pedowitz” Pedowitz knows what little girls want, and he believes it to be the exact same stuff girls have wanted over the past two decades: In addition to the network’s continuations of 90210 and Sex And The City, The CW is now mounting a remake of Beauty And The Beast, the late-’80s CBS fantasy-drama that played to every woman’s secret desire to be whisked away into the magical underworld of the New York sewer system, where she is then romanced by a guy who looks just like Ron Perlman, only slightly more leonine. According to TV Line, this new version will both modernize the story and add a “procedural twist,” though it’s not clear yet how that will differ significantly from the original’s basic formula, which saw Linda Hamilton’s district attorney character constantly stumbling into crimes that necessitated being rescued by the people who lived in the Tunnel world, who definitely didn’t have their own problems to worry about.