Bravo Developing 1980s Cola Wars Series

October 28th, 2012 | Posted by James K in Television

Pepsi vs Coca Cola 570x380 Bravo Developing 1980s Cola Wars Series

Bravo, seeking to expand into scripted programming, is developing a workplace drama based on the 1980s Coke vs. Pepsi advertising wars.

You remember: New Coke. Classic Coke. The Pepsi Challenge. “Coke is It!” “Choice of the New Generation.”

Would you watch?

Other Bravo projects:

  • A reboot of the cult-classic flick “Heathers.” The show is set in the present day, 20 years after the movie left off.
  • “22 Birthdays.” Follows the lives of a parents at a private school. Each episode would be centered around a birthday party.
  • “Blowing Sunshine.” A series about the staff and patients of a fictional private rehab center.
  • “Apartment.” Two twentysomething siblings inherit the love nest where their late mother had an 18-year affair.
  • “Darlings.” Based on the novel by Christina Alger about a high-society family on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that’s pulled into a financial scandal after a business partner’s Ponzi scheme unravels, driving him to suicide and exposing the family (and company’s) secrets.
  • “All American Girl.” Based on Black List writer Jenni Ross’ mother’s stint as fashion editor at Seventeen magazine in the 1970s.
  • “Rita.” A family drama that centers on an acerbic and outspoken private school teacher who struggles to raise her three teen children while dealing with bureaucracy and overprotective parents at her school.

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