Mr & Mrs Smith TV Show Coming To Your, Uh, TV

The Mr & Mrs Smith movie from a couple of years ago was cool, wasn't it? Excitement from beginning to end, that's what Mr & Mrs Smith was, even though everyone who watched it completely forgot about it the moment they left the cinema.

For those of you who can't remember, this is what mostly happened during Mr & Mrs Smith. There was a gunfight. Then an explosion. Then a car chase. Then another gunfight. Then a car chase with a gunfight at the same time. Then someone drove a car off an exploding building while firing guns at it. Then a gun started driving an exploding car off a bridge into a lake of petrol and oily rags, which exploded. Then it finished. Now, imagine what Mr & Mrs Smith would have been like with a budget so tiny that nothing was allowed to explode or crash whatsoever, because that's what you're about to get - ABC has greenlit a Mr & Mrs Smith TV show.

Remember when you went to see Mr & Mrs Smith at the cinema in 2005? Remember that you mostly did it to find clues about whether or not Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were banging each other behind Jennifer Aniston's back? It was so exciting back then, wasn't it, before Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt started having babies, injuring Indians and only ever banging on about themselves all the time. But apart from that, what exactly did Mr & Mrs Smith have? Not a lot really, but that isn't stopping ABC from making a Mr & Mrs Smith TV show, as Variety reports:

ABC has greenlit production on "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," a small-screen take on the Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie feature. Doug Liman and Simon Kinberg are reprising their roles as helmer and scribe, respectively. Liman, Kinberg and Dave Bartis will exec produce. Regency TV will produce the pilot in association with Bartis and Liman's Dutch Oven Prods. As in the movie, ABC's "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" will revolve around two married assassins. Action will pick up about six months after the movie left off. "It's essentially 'Married … With Children' with guns," Kinberg said. "The show takes all the marital issues a couple has and blows them up to action-genre size." So rather than fight about who forgot to pack the toothpaste, "They'll bicker over someone forgetting to pack the detonator," he said.

Yes, it's the same Mr & Mrs Smith TV show story from a year ago, but an inch further down the line. It's pretty obvious that neither Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie would want to make a Mr & Mrs Smith TV show, and the show's budget probably won't allow for epic department store shootouts in each episode, so it's hard to see what would happen to Mr & Mrs Smith without any action or stars. Tell a lie, it isn't hard at all - in 1996 a Mr & Mrs Smith TV show was made with him from Quantum Leap and her from A History Of Violence. It was binned after two months.

Still, if the Mr & Mrs Smith TV show fails at least we'll have all kinds of other wonderful TV shows to watch like Terminator: The TV Show and Star Wars: The TV Show. But let's not be negative - we're sure that the lower-budget Mr & Mrs Smith TV show has the potential to run and run, and we're especially looking forward to the episodes where Mr & Mrs Smith manage to fight off a team of rival assassins by twanging elastic bands near their eyes and giving them nasty chinese burns for an hour.

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