Shane Life

So I was on ABC’s website today and I saw a little blurb on the home page for a new show called Cupid.

Wait a sec…

Originally starring the brilliant Jeremy Piven (well before he hit it huge as Ari Gold), the show is centered around a guy named Trevor who is thoroughly convinced that he is the reincarnation of Cupid “sent down from Mt. Olympus by Zeus to connect 100 couples without his powers as a punishment for his arrogance.”

The show has managed to be re-green-lighted by ABC (who also carried the original show) for the original creator Rob Thomas, only with a different cast. Now, Bobby Cannavale (Third Watch) and Sarah Paulson (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) will play the main characters, Cupid/Trevor and his psychiatrist/love interest.

I don’t mean to be doom-and-gloom here, but if this show couldn’t succeed with Jeremy Piven in the lead role, what makes anyone think it will get an audience with a guy who is probably best known for playing Will’s firefighter love interest on Will & Grace? I understand the desire that creator Rob Thomas might have to resurrect his baby, but this is just another example of how lazy people are getting on TV. What…were all the other new ideas gone?

And it’s not that this show is a bad idea. It’s just that I can’t figure out what makes the studio believe that things will be different this time. If audiences aren’t going to get into Pushing Daisies, they sure as heck aren’t going to get into a show like this.

Mark my words. The second incarnation of this show won’t last any longer than the pre-fully-bald-pre-hair-plugs-Piven-helmed first. Which was only 14 episodes (plus one unaired in the can).