It looks like Kirstie Alley may have a post-Jenny Craig career after all. The Emmy Award-winning actress will head the cast of Fox's comedic pilot The Minister of Divine. Alley will play a renegade-turned-preacher who returns to her small hometown as a woman of the cloth. The show is based on BBC series The Vicar of Dibley.Feel free to insert your own joke about ministers counseling the faithful on the caloric content of the Saturday night fish fry, but I've got faith in Alley. She came back from Look Who's Talking. She can come back from the Oprah tankini dance. I feel like Alley may age into one of my favorite female archetypes - the "I don't care what you think of me," "seen it all" dames of the Elaine Stritch, Kathleen Turner and Kiki and Herb mold. Technically, Kiki's a drag queen, but you know what I mean.
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2-07-2007 @ 9:20AM
erroneous_nick said...
I've always liked Kirstie Alley and I really hope this show turns out to be good. I'm a *HUGE* Vicar of Dibley fan, so I hope I don't judge Ms. Alley's show too harshly. I will try very hard to be open-minded when it airs.
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2-07-2007 @ 11:24AM
InL.A. said...
It appears that FOX is trying something new, again...
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2-07-2007 @ 2:37PM
Gene Cowan said...
Hmm. The Vicar in "Dibley" is the straight man, with a gaggle of bizarre characters whirling around her. Somehow, I can't see Kirstie Alley playing the straight man -- this is a major problem with most remakes of Britcoms, the inability of American producers to restrain the comedy. The perfect example of this is the contrast between "Police Squad!" and the Naked Gun movies; some producer somewhere told Leslie Neilsen to mug for the camera, which completely ruined the thing.
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2-07-2007 @ 3:03PM
Porchland said...
Great. Expect telepathic messages from the scientology aliens masquerading as church chat.
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