Robert Rodriguez, director of Sin City and Desperado, is shopping a new women’s exploitation show set in prison. It will be called “Women In Chains.”TV Squad has the scoop!

The show, written by Josh Miller and Mark Fortin, will star Rodriguez’s fiancee, Rose McGowan. She’ll play one of five women central to the show. It’s rumored to have a 70s exploitation feel, and there’s talk of mud wrestling. Alan Ball’s Bad Girls most likely takes HBO out of the equation, but I’d certainly prefer Showtime over any of the normal networks, just for the freedom it would provide.

I’ll admit, I got a thing for Rose McGowen, especially when she co-starred in Charmed, and a show like this may just be the perfect fit for her. We already know Rodriguez can direct exploitation decently, although it is debatable whether or not such homages are a waste of screen time, but we all deserve at least one guilty pleasure show at least one time or another.

I agree with the article. This show needs to be on a premium channel like HBO or Showtime. It needs breathing space. It needs to be able to do what it should do best: be exploitive! And I doubt if running on a channel like FX would help it much.

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