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New TV Show Aims for Intellectual Audience
In an attempt to appeal to a more discriminating TV audience, the creators of the new series Sassy 'n Brassy have steered clear of the more violent and outrageous formats rampant in television today. The show, which premiered in private showings last month to rave reviews, centers on a late-twentyish super-model/ crime scene investigator/ international kickboxing champion named Sassy Martin who happens to be a devoted, single mother successfully raising eighty-three special-needs adopted children while also attending to her duties as the chief surgeon of New York City's largest hospital center. Sassy's counterpart, Jamala Brassard, is a transvestite cyborg who is battling the effects of HIV, years of prescription drug abuse, and premature rusting of vital interior body parts, but holds a top-secret position in a high-profile corporate law firm.
In the bestselling weekly journal, TV Zombie, Penelope Prozak, one of the show's nine writers, offers the following plot synopsis: "The two superheroes team up for the Federal Government in their spare time to infiltrate the seedy world of church organizations and homeschooling groups to weed out the destructive force of faith-based activities before they have a chance to take root."
"We wanted to provide a complicated, entertaining scenario that addressed real-life issues and contained profound meaning for today's world. This is a thinking person's TV show," chimed in one of the other writers to close out the article.
Based on a true incident, the pilot episode has the two crime-fighters raiding a private school run by a group of notorious nuns who are teaching children History and English from textbooks that were written in the nineteenth century. "We realize that such graphic material was shocking to the point of being unbelievable, but we wanted to come out with a bang on this one and grab everyone's attention," Ms. Prozak explained in a separate interview.
Asked how she enjoyed playing Sassy Martin, her newest character, actress Olivia Dykus replied, "Sassy's the coolest. Her hard-as-nails, no nonsense approach to life is something I think appeals to everyone because, let's face it, big girls really don't have time to cry in this day and age. An awesome role model for unsure girls in the awkward, adolescent years, she embodies all the greatness that is modern woman. In short: she's emancipated, empowered, emboldened – and that bi-atch can do anything."
