Sunday, September 30, 2007 - 11:23 PM PST
There have been a few stories about the large number of so-called "geek" shows returning or premiering this fall on TV: Chuck, Big Bang Theory, Reaper, Heroes, Bionic Woman, and so on.
Not as much attention was paid to this potentially upcoming show, though, and it sounds like the geekiest one of all.
From ABC joins geek streak with office project:
[...] ABC has ordered a script for "Foobar," a one-hour ensemble set at a fictional software company."It's a show about a lot of very smart, highly verbal people who are relationship retards running one of the most admired companies in the world," said its creator, Alice Wu.
She knows those people well because she is one of them. Before venturing into filmmaking, Wu worked as a software developer at Microsoft.
After a couple of internships at the software company, Wu started there in 1992 after graduating from Stanford with a master's in computer science.
I don't think a show can have better nerd credentials than that.
And she worked at Microsoft to boot. Maybe it's time for a career change...