ABC's 'Selfie' Comedy Starring Karen Gillan Loosely Based on 'My Fair Lady'

Get ready  for the first mobile-inspired sitcom: Selfie. As we’ve mentioned before, the comedy from ABC is set to air this fall, and as you’d expect, there are a lot of hashtags, mobiles, and gendered stereotyping. Of course, the show highlights a girl who spends too much time indulging in fake, digital friends on social media – but why is her hero a man with marketing skills for unmarketable things?

The show seems a bit obvious, from my perspective, but at the very least, it’s historically rooted in My Fair Lady.