Women In Chains For Rodriguez

Today we have learned from Horror-Movies.ca that Robert Rodriguez is shopping around a new TV series called "Women In Chains"! This comes as some fantastic news for me because I am a huge fan of the classic 70's exploitation women in prison films which this series is said to borrow from. It will include everything from "Sadistic Guards, Cafeteria Hosedowns, Mud Wrestling, and Violent Vendettas".

To make this news even better Rose McGowan will topline as one of the five femme fatales that the show will focus on. Throw in a couple of other big names like Rosario Dawson and Asia Argento and call it a TV show from my dreams. The only negative thing that could come from this is a soft station like FX or one of the big networks picks it up.

For this kind of TV show to even work it really needs to land on Showtime or HBO. It will most likely, live or die based on that. In my mind it is impossible to make a good exploitation based TV show without being able to push some taboos. That is something that can not be done on network television. Until we hear some more info on this be sure to keep it here.