'Beauty And The Beast' TV Show: Pilot Ordered By ABC

Is Disney-owned ABC becoming the go-to fairy tale network? ABC has ordered a pilot based off the traditional tale of "Beauty and the Beast," reports EW.com.

From "Jericho's" Jonathan Steinberg, the project is described as “a fantastical re-imagining of the classic fairy tale set in a mythical, dangerous world wherein a beautiful and tough Princess discovers an unlikely connection with a mysterious beast.”

After the success of the highly-fanciful "Once Upon A Time," it looks like the network is looking for another fairy tale hit, but they have some stiff competition. NBC already have "Grimm" on its lineup, and The CW, with hit shows like "The Vampire Diaries" and "The Secret Circle," has also ordered a pilot based off "Beauty and the Beast."

However, The CW version will be loosely based on the cult-classic 1987 CBS procedural television show that starred Linda Hamilton.

While there's no telling if either of these shows will make it to a series order, we would like to see a primetime "Beast" vs. "Beast" showdown.

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Comments

[Di InscoeOakes]

10:35 AM on 03/18/2012

One of my favorite fairy tales & a great series with Linda Hamilton & Ron Pearlman in the 70's, too damm bad ABC is looking to redo it as ABC and any Disney channel are deleted from our TV watching. They should have left the soaps on daytime viewing alone or bring them back!

[ReadWryt]

04:27 PM on 02/20/2012

The series in the 80's was interesting to me at first, but then it just seemed to devolve into something derivative of "The Hulk"..."Catherine in trouble, Vincent SMASH!"

[AngryHarpy]

02:37 AM on 01/26/2012

Awesome!

[TheSojourner]

06:31 PM on 01/25/2012

I was a staunch fan of the '87 series. I was sorry to see it end. I would like to see how they would re-invent it, but with real actors not an animated series. We'll see, I guess.

[Kevin Arthus]

02:57 PM on 01/25/2012

So...a remake of the 1987 series. Ron Perlman as the Beast?

[jmslotnick]

04:41 PM on 01/25/2012

Loved that show and watch it when every once in a while some channel plays it. Perlman is one heck of a good and very underrated actor.

[Di InscoeOakes]

10:38 AM on 03/18/2012

why not?! He is perfect and would make an awesome prince or hero, he can pay straight human & now that his character has been killed in Sons of Anachy

[jbaer10314]

01:55 PM on 01/25/2012

Can't wait to see these two deal with issues like credit card debt and infidelity.

And the big question at the end of season 1: "Who shot the Beast"?

[Dale Hopson]

03:28 PM on 01/25/2012

It was Gaston!

[jmslotnick]

04:39 PM on 01/25/2012

Didn't shoot him, Gaston stabbed him in the back.....