Eva Longoria is celebrating another milestone achievement behind the scenes. A few months back it was announced that the “Desperate Housewives” alumna will be making her feature directorial debut with workplace comedy “24/7,” and now word comes that she’s signed on to direct her first pilot. Longoria is set to helm Brooke Shields-starrer “Glamorous” for The CW. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the news.
A CBS TV Studios project, “Glamorous” sees Shields playing Madolyn, a former supermodel who launched a career as the CEO of a respected cosmetics company. The comedy’s protagonist is “a gender non-conforming recent high school graduate who lands the gig of a lifetime as an intern at [Madolyn’s] company whose products he panned on YouTube.”
After making her TV directorial debut on a 2014 episode of “Devious Maids” — which she also served as an exec producer on — Longoria has gone on to helm eps of series such as “”Black-ish,” “The Mick,” and “Jane the Virgin.” She’s in pre-production on “24/7.” She’s directing and co-starring alongside Kerry Washington in the feature about women accountants who take down male co-workers to solve a fraud cause. You can catch Longoria on-screen in the live-action “Dora the Explorer” movie set to bow August 2. She was last seen in “Overboard” alongside Anna Faris.
“The word ‘diversity’ has been thrown around so much in all industries — not just in television and film but in corporations all over — and it’s not just because it’s the right thing to do, but it’s because it makes business sense,” Longoria has said. “If you want to widen your customer base, you should be inclusive and reflecting the communities in which they live in.” For evidence of the multi-hyphenate’s claim, check out UCLA College of Social Sciences’ latest Diversity Report.
