Boulevard of Broken Dreams will profile the stories that make great movies and novels and National Enquirer stories: The ones whose careers were cut short--by drugs, scandal, bad choices, or preferably, death. The show will be produced by the True Hollywood team, they're bound be juicy and compelling--but here's the strange part: while True Hollywood Story focuses on a single subject for an entire hour, Boulevard, whose material is far darker, deeper and richer, is only a half-hour long.
And we get two losers in each episode.
We'd guess that in true Hollywood fashion, they're just rubbing it in.
The series will run Monday nights at 10:30. It debuts January 22. While E! keeps its sunny side up by promising a story or two about celebs who crawled their way back to the top, they're teasing us with the casualties:
Sean Penn's kid brother Chris, who turned up dead at 40 after years of drug and booze addictions;
Leif Garrett, the former teen idol who was plagued by drugs and hair loss;
TV news anchor Christine Chubbuck, who shot herself in the head on live TV;
Judging Amy actress Tara Correa-McMullen, who was shot and killed in a drive-by, gang-related shooting;
Then there are models Krissy and Niki Taylor. Krissy died from an asthma attack at 17. Then Niki was mangled in a car wreck. Wonder if they get fifteen minutes each?
Naah!
(Fun fact: The E! The True Hollywood Story has run 425 episodes, and is still going strong.)