Bitches

It's hard to disparage Fox for wanting to get into the werewolf business after the huge – and soul crushing – financial success of the lycanthrope-heavy New Moon. But the network that canceled Dollhouse, Firefly and, amusingly, Werewolf might be stretching America's love affair with fanged furries to its breaking point.

Last year, we reported that Fox was eyeing Bitches, about a pack of urban shewolves. Now comes news that it's developing a second werewolf show called Howl, from Dreamworks TV. Variety says that Howl is a family drama about warring werewolf clans in a small Alaska town.

It sounds like Fox is looking to grab some of that Team Jacob money with its own hairy version of The Vampire Diaries.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Maybe both.

In a sure sign of the apocalypse, Fox has signed a new dramedy by X2/Superman Returns scribe Michael Dougherty. It's about four women who live in New York City and turn into werewolves at a certain time of the month. Yes, it's really called Bitches. Can Fox get that one past the censors?

Okay, I get the analogy. The main characters will probably be successful businesswomen and therefore "bitches". The transformation into werewolves with every full moon could be a take on menstruation (an analogy that's been used before in fantasy literature). Will a fantasy series on Fox do better in the ratings than the much-loved-but-quickly-canceled science-fiction series of years past (and present)?

More than anything, it's the name that really gets me. It's such a cheap ploy. If Bitches can get through as a title, why not other profanities? Perhaps Fox can broadcast that film briefly mentioned in the movie Idiocracy called Ass.

(S01E06) Up until now, we've only seen Emerson as a gruff P.I. whose role was to throw a sprinkle of cynicism on the decidedly sprightly environment around the Pie Hole. But you knew that eventually we were going to either find out more about his past or see him get involved with one of the people he was investigating. Tonight we got the latter. And his dalliance did a nice job of throwing some needed darkness into what was an overly-sweet episode.
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