JANE BY DESIGN!

Hi everyone!
Today I'd like to talk about a TV show I recently watched and that has been,unfortunately,cancelled after just one season.
The show I'm referring to is Jane By Design:it was created by April Blair and it premiered on ABC Family on January 3, 2012.

The show resembles for some aspects to both "The Devil wears Prada" and "Ugly Betty", however it has a spirit of its own.
It tells the story of a teenage girl, Jane Quinby  (Erica Dasher), who is mistankenly hired as the assistant of a fashion designer, Gray Chandler Murray (Andie Mac Dowell) and begins working in high fashion. She then has to go on with her school life but, at the same time, she has to work and pretend to be an adult in order to keep her dream job.
Jane lives with her brother Ben (David Clayton Rogers) and has a best friend named Billy (Nick Roux). At work she has to do her best to please Gray, while she also has to fight with India (India de Beaufort) and, sometimes, with Jeremy (Rowley Dennis).

The show was cancelled after only one season of 18 episodes,due to low ratings. Although I can understand why ABC decided to get rid of the show,I find hard to understand why people didn't like it. I know it's quite a predictable show,but it's funny and you immediately start to care about the characters. In particular the relationship between Jane and Billy could have developed and be explored more deeply if the show had had time to grow. Unfortunately we'll never know what was going to happen (however,there is a little surprise at the end of this post for those of you who watched the show and know how it ended).

Even though the show is already finished I think everyone should give it a chance, and I'm sure you won't regret it.
Sure,if you only like TV shows where everything is unpredictable and you want a "coup de théatre" every second, well, this is not the show for you.
But if you like nice characters, funny stories and, yes, the world of fashion, you're going to love Jane by Design.

Here are some pictures of the cast:

                                                  Jane

                                                                            
                                                                          Billy

 

 

Jane and Gray

 

Jane and (from the left) Lulu, Nick, Billy and Ben

 

 

                         Jane and (from the left) Jeremy, Gray and India

 

The entire cast

 

Here is a preview of the show:

and a lovely interview to the two protagonists:

And here is the opening theme, which I think it's great!

                     (wow listening to this again makes me a little sad)

So what do you think?
Have you watched Jane By Design?Did you like it??
Let me know!!

Thank you for listening and stay tuned!

H.


SPOILER ALERT!!!!

Here is the surprise I told you about at the beginning of the post (don't go on reading if you don't want any spoiler).
Here is the link to an article where the creator April Blair reveals what was going to happen in season 2 (OMG!).
And finally here is a picture I found on this lovely tumblr 

 <3 <3 <3

TRAVELLING: NEW YORK CITY

Good morning!!

Here is another section of my blog I'd like to create,I thought of calling it "Travelling in the alternative reality".
I mean to put under this label everything about travelling,but in a way that is related to TV shows too (or films or books, of course).

For example, today I'd like to talk about a city where I've never been, but that's on my list of dream places where to go: New York city.
As you all know, NY has been and still is the set for many TV shows and thus a dream place for TV lovers.
Among them I remember Friends, Sex and the City and more recently How I Met Your Mother.

Although I know that the main part of these shows has been filmed in studios, there are some scenes which show the city and its famous places.
Sex and the City in particular is known for having many of its scenes filmed in real streets and pubs of NY, because the city was like a "real character" to the writers and they didn't want to leave it out (at a certain point along the seasons they started to film more and more in studios, but then they luckily changed their mind).
Another show which is based in New York is also Mad Men,although in this case we're talking about New York city in the 60s.

Then of course I have to mention one of my favourite movies, Breakfast at Tiffany's with the lovely Audrey Hepburn, which is entirely based in NY.

Here are some pictures, have you ever been to these places?

Friends' apartment

 

Carrie's house

 

Nice map with some Mad Men places

 

 

Tiffany's

 

Holly and Paul in New York

 

 
Have you ever been to New York? Do you have other places to suggest?Did I forget some series?
I'm going to update the post with all the new images I can find, so keep looking!

That's all for today,thank you for listening and stay tuned!!

H.