Alanis Morissette’s life is being turned into an ABC sitcom
The series, called Relatable, will be loosely based on the musician and her family
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Alanis Morissette is no stranger to TV. Before penning songs that helped angsty youths feel seen, she spent her tween years on kids sketch comedy show You Can’t Do That On Television. She’s also had small roles on other TV shows and movies, including Weeds and Dogma. But now, Morissette gets a sitcom based on her life.
Deadline reports that the ABC series, titled Relatable, will be a “single-camera comedy that follows a 40-something woman, married with three kids, who spent her young adult life as an international rock star, famous for her self-penned anthems of female rage and teen angst. Now this ‘voice of her generation,’ although deeply bonded with her family, can’t quite get the next generation living in her house to listen to her.”
The publication notes that while Morissette’s life will “loosely inform” the show, the stories and characters are fictional. So, it’ll be about a woman whose life story mirrors Morissette’s, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll hear her belt out “You Oughta Know” onscreen.
The series is made by The Goldbergs supervising producer Elizabeth Beckwith and Marlon co-creator Christopher Moynihan; Morissette will be one of the show’s executive producers and contribute original music for it, too.
There’s no word yet on who will play the character based on Morissette, but Soleil Moon Frye is a dead-ringer for the musician, and now that the Punky Brewster reboot was canceled, her schedule is likely freed up. It could get fun to make it meta and have some of Morissette’s famous exes like Dave Coulier and Ryan Reynolds pop in, too.
And speaking of Morissette-related TV, the musician recurrently plays herself in Bob’s Burgers writers Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin’s new animated series, The Great North. On the show, the fictionalized version of Morissette is middle child Judy’s imaginary friend, who gives motherly advice to the tween.
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Can’t wait for the theater episode!
It will go down in history.
Cut*it*out!
Network censors are way ahead of you buddy.
Came here to post this.
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She’s also had small roles on other TV shows and movies, including … DogmaSurely God’s as big a role as you can get!
Or, so small as to not even exist?
There are no small parts just small actors or something like that.
It turns out she was only a demigod.
Morgan Freeman was busy?
If there’s one person who’s capable of turning God into a small role, it’s Kevin Smith…
Well, isn’t it ironic.
Cobie Smulders could work too. She already played a version of Alanis on How I Met Your Mother.
Robin Sparkles!
AKA Robin Daggers.
AKA Maria Hill
Things that just became indisputable headcanon: heavily firearms-trained, globetrotting reporter Robin Scherbatsky and Agent Hill are one and the same. Thank you for that; it has improved my life.
Maria Hill, deep undercover on a very embarrassing mission
With the little cut on her cheek that says she gets into the action, but she’s still unbearably pretty.
OK, she’s been in stuff…we get it!
Hey now, they didn’t even say “I don’t know”!
They didn’t?
Obligatory:You Can’t Do That on Television!
Can’t wait to see which five or six women are cast as the nannies who actually spend time with the kids!
So it’s based on her life now? Not during, you know, the interesting parts of her life? OK.
‘Morissettaissance’
bless you!
She the one that sung Friday?
No, you’re thinking of Morrissey.
I’m waiting for the genetic lab accident that gifts the world with Alanis Morrissey.
What time is now? You oughta know.
Alanis Morrisey loves India….and hates China!
Mmm, meat
Monday to Saturday too.
Oh, I’m having a reaction to this…It’s coming.I don’t think I can hold it back much longer.Here it comes:……Why not!Why not? Sounds like it could be fun. That’s how I feel about this. Why not!
Oh god the anticipation was killing me!!!!
I apologize for that, I wanted to recreate the sequence of events just like I had experienced it. It was a wild ride that concluded with mild approval. I thought that was noteworthy!
I’m shocked that there aren’t at least 15 grayed out replies just saying that this news is “ironic”
I missed that the Punky Brewster reboot was canceled. It was canceled in August. I meant to check it out, but I guess it doesn’t matter now.
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The one true opinion is punctuation.That’s some next level shit, dude!
I asked a question, then I read the article a second time and it already answered that question. And Kinja doesn’t let you delete messages. So….the best anyone can do is that.
Right on.
This is such a bad idea. You have a legacy, girl; don’t fuck it up.
A sitcom? About a priviliged white lady? NOW?!
Rock stars, the new IP! Looking forward to the early 90’s rock star extended universe
If it’s going to be all fictional 90’s rock stars, then “The Chris Gaines Show” needs to be the first one.
A major celebrity having identity issues and trying to pretend he’s someone else is peak peak tv. It could be like Mad Men but set in Nashville
Can’t wait for when Alanis, Liz Phair, and the two girls from Veruca Salt team up to stop Loki from invading New York.
For some WEIRD reason, I want to see this…
Nina Gordon and Louise Post thank you very much
YES, thank you. “The Seether’s Louise…” how could I forget? LOL
No problem. I Love Veruca Salt. I thought the 2015 reunion album was great.
If this is a sign of things to come I can dust off that GG Allin multi-camera comedy I have!
Isn’t it ironic?
(that no one has said this yet?)
Damn you! Now I am required by the bylaws of the internet to reply that the lyrics of that song are not examples of irony; but merely dumb coincidences.
There. Obligation fulfilled.
But don’t you see that’s the actual Ironic part, Alanis was being ironic by using non ironic examples. Ironic, right, don’t you think.
Well, you oughta know.
Yeah, whenever I hear an Alanis Morissette song I immediately think “Comedy Gold!”
Ironic-ish?
Will Dave Coulier portray her husband?
“Alanis played by Soleil Moon Frye”90s teen me just needs a few minutes before I stand up.
it COULD be good…but is it going to be? Most likely not.