Starz Announces Vigilante Series from 50 Cent, Pole-Dancing Drama and Telenovela Adaptation

Starz is upping its original slate with four new shows, including a vigilante hero series from Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, a pole-dancer drama, a telenovela and a Sex and the City-style comedy. The pickups were .announced during Starz's panel at the Television Critics Association fall previews on Monday.

The network has extended its overall deal with Powerstar 50 Cent and is developing a vigilante series, Tomorrow, Today from the rapper/actor. The show is about a veteran from the south side of Chicago who, after being falsely imprisoned, becomes the personal experiment of a mad prison doctor who's trying to create the perfect man, and ends up with an unstoppable killing machine. The veteran will use his newfound abilities for good in a world he feels has turned against him. Jackson wrote the script and will executive-produce the series.

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Continuing in the drama realm, Starz has picked up Pussy Valley from playwright Katori Hall. The series is "an unflinching and unapologetic look at the lives of pole dancers working down in the Dirty Delta." It follows five pole dancers working at the Pink Pony club in Mississippi who must prevent their real-life drama from interfering with their on-stage personas.

Starz will also branch into the world of telenovelas by adapting the Mexican soap opera Teresafor American audiences. The show focuses on an undocumented Latina who's trying to scrape her way into the world of the Los Angeles elite, chronicling her "ruthless pursuit of money and power and her willingness to do anything to get them." Carlos Portugal (Meet the Browns) will oversee the series.

It's not all serious stuff at Starz, however. The network has also added a half-hour comedy to its new slate of shows. Dirty Girls Social Club, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Alisa Valdes, centers on six women living, working and loving in New York City. Ten years after going to college together, they realize all they can really count on is each other. Anne Thomopoulos (Rome) will executive-produce the series.

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