It's been four years since the last original Josh Schwartz television productions—"Gossip Girl" and "Chuck"—hit television airwaves, so we figure it's about time that he give us something new to love. Deadline has the exclusive that Josh is planning on reuniting with his "The OC" star and frequent collaborator Rachel Bilson (who couldn't love her brief guest spot in the first season of "Chuck"?!) for a supernatural romantic comedy series called "Ghost Angeles."
Consider it a sign of just how effective all of Josh's shows have been that NBC picked up the pilot for the series before Josh and his co-writer Henry Alonso Myers ("Ugly Betty") even wrote it. The project sparked a heated bidding war with NBC coming out on top, continuing the relationship Josh and the network started with "Chuck" (which, against all odds, just started its fourth season).
The plot of the hour-long show is being kept under wraps, but Deadline says the basic premise is that Rachel is a young woman in Los Angeles who can talk to the dead and helps the ghosts she encounters "as much as they are helping her." Of course, there's going to be some romance tossed in there too. Though this seems like a premise that has been a little overdone on television (from "Ghost Whisperer" to "Medium"), Josh has a tendency to take familiar concepts and make them fresh and addictive. Can you tell we're fans?
This will be Josh's second dabbling with supernatural dramas, if you consider "X-Men: First Class"—which he helped write—to be about the supernatural.
Are you excited to see Josh and Rachel reunite? Do you think he will be able to make the supernatural genre fresh and addicting like he did teen dramas and spy comedies?
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