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The producers of The Real L Word (Ilene Chaiken and Magical Elves) are looking for lesbians with important and compelling stories to tell for a documentary-approach to lesbian life beyond the coasts.  The project will focus on the experience of living as a lesbian in areas throughout the country where non-acceptance is still the norm.

We are currently casting for the project and are trying to get the word out to as many people as possible.  All the casting information can be found at reallworddocumentary.com, including a little more about the project and what to include in submissions.

If anyone from L-word.com is selected, be sure to let webmaster@ L-word.com about it! (remove that space after the @).

Good luck!

According to Deadline Hollywood, Jennifer Beals has signed on for a lead in “Venice”, while creator and executive producer Ilene Chaiken has come on board as executive producer and showrunner. This is the exciting news that Jennifer Beals hinted about earlier today in her tweet that promised good news for all the fans of “The L Word”. Perhaps it’s not the news everyone was expecting, especially because the fans are still waiting for L Word movie, but it is some sort of a reunion and a very good news for the fans of Jennifer Beals.

Written by Byron Balasco, “Venice”  is a soap about two rival families in Venice and a forbidden and dangerous romance emerging between them as they battle for control of Venice. Jennifer Beals will play Lisa Carver, the elegant bohemian matriarch of the Carver family, one of the two feuding clans. McG is directing the pilot, which he, Chaiken and Belasco executive produce with Peter Johnson.

By LanaRus

“These new series feature a great range of bold concepts, rich characters, big stars and fresh faces,” CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler said in a statement during upfronts in New York. “From a new take on Sherlock Holmes to an epic battle for control of 1960’s Las Vegas to a working-class point of view in a prestigious law firm, the dramas each have a unique style and sensibility. And, our new comedy “Partners” fits perfectly with the CBS Monday night tradition of relationship comedies with a lot of heart and humor.”

The 2012-2013 Fall Schedule: CBS (New programs in UPPER CASE; all times ET)

MONDAY
8-8:30 p.m. – “How I Met Your Mother”

8:30-9 p.m. – “PARTNERS”

9-9:30 p.m. – “2 Broke Girls”

9:30-10 p.m. – “Mike & Molly”

10-11 p.m. – “Hawaii Five-0”

Mondays will stay the same with an addition of a new half-hour comedy, “Partners”. I do hope that in the new season of “How I Met Your Mother” we will finally meet that illusive mother.

“Partners” – The personal story of two lifelong friends and business partners — one straight (David Krumholtz) and one gay (Michael Urie) — whose friendship has lasted longer than any of their romantic relationships. When one decides to propose to his girlfriend (Sophia Bush), their ‘bromance’ is tested and nearly results in a breakup. Will & Grace duo David Kohan and Max Mutchnick are executive producers. Also star Brandon Routh, Tracy Vilar, and Molly Shannon.

Showtime has recently renewed their reality series The Real L Word for a third season. The network has ordered another run of nine episodes and will continue to follow the lives of lesbians living in Los Angeles.

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By LanaRus

Since The L Word ended, many fans have been wondering about the prospect of The L Word the movie being made. After many talks, promises, rumors and jokes we still have not heard a word about this project. It seems that The L Word creator has been busy producing and writing something else these past few years.

Ilene Chaiken & Jennifer Beals ©L-word.com

Earlier this year when all TV networks were announcing their Fall TV schedule, Ilene was all set to produce a medical lesbian drama Rhodes to Recovery but instead she got involved with drama Hail Mary, which once was thought to be a front-runner for CBS. The show was about a suburban single mom played by Minnie Driver who teamed up with a street-wise hustler to solve crimes after her son was murdered. The Pilot wasn’t picked up because, according to reports, it “eventually lost momentum at the network.”

Minnie Driver

However, there are been more announcements about Chaiken’s involvement with a few new projects. For her first project Ilene has teamed with director-producer Joel Silver for a character-driven procedural which landed at CBS with a put pilot commitment. This means that the network and studio enter into an agreement, where the network agrees to air the pilot. If the network does not air the pilot episode, it will owe substantial monetary penalties to the studio. Generally, this commitment guarantees that the pilot will be picked up by the network.

Chaiken will write the drama, centered on an edgy punk hacker girl who teams up with an Oakland police detective to solve crimes. Chaiken and Silver will executive produce with Silver for Warner Bros. TV where Silver’s TV Company is based. The deal will keep Ilene in the CBS family after she worked with the network on the Hail Mary Pilot.

The second project is set up by Dick Wolf’s Universal TV-based production company as an hour-long show for NBC network, which puts a twist on a classic medical drama. Ilene’s project is still untitled and it centers on lesbian couple who are doctors at an inner-city Philadelphia hospital. Does it mean Ilene is returning to her previous project Rhodes to Recovery? It is possible, though that project only involved one lesbian and not a couple.

It seems that Ms. Chaiken is going to be pretty busy with her current commitments so she might not have time to write The L Word movie after all.