If you loved “Pitch” and were sad to see it cancelled, here’s a silver lining: the baseball show’s star, Kylie Bunbury, has booked a new gig. Deadline reports that she’s signed on to topline “Get Christie Love,” an hour-long drama with a pilot production commitment at ABC. The project hails from “Power” creator and showrunner Courtney Kemp, and is inspired by the 1974 blaxpoitation TV movie “Get Christie Love!” The cult favorite spawned a TV series that aired on ABC from 1974–75.
Described as an action-packed and music-driven drama, the new “Get Christie Love” follows “Christie Love (Bunbury), an African American, female CIA agent who leads a highly trained elite ops unit,” the source details. “Beautiful and charismatic, Christie transforms into whoever she needs to be in order to get the job done, especially when it’s down to the wire and the stakes are life and death.” Kemp penned the pilot and is among the project’s executive producers.
Best known for playing Ginny Baker on “Pitch,” Bunbury’s other credits include “Under the Dome,” “Tut,” and “The Sitter.”
Another blaxploitation reboot in the works in “Cleopatra Jones,” a 1970s film series about an undercover government agent with the cover of supermodel. “Underground” co-creator Misha Green will write and produce the project.
Kemp inked a multi-year deal with Starz and Lionsgate back in May.
“I think people assume the person behind ‘Power’ is a person of color,” Kemp has said. “It’s the woman part that throws them. That’s been the harder part — as a woman, to be listened to, to be taken seriously, to not be mansplained.” She added, “I am a Black woman, and I’m proud of that, but as a showrunner, I want to think about what makes me unique beyond my race.”
The fourth season of “Power” concluded on Starz in September. The crime drama is confirmed for a fifth season, but a premiere date hasn’t been announced yet.
