Feeling down? Having a hard week? Did you just get caught trying to cheat on your partner using an online infidelity service? Well, we’re not sure if you’ll like this news or not: your story might soon be told in the form of an Ashley Madison TV show.
By now we’ve all heard of the extra-marital affairs website Ashley Madison, and the recent hack that has exposed the names and private information of the millions of people signed up to it. Now though, the Hollywood Reporter has revealed a couple of enterprising producers are trying to leverage this into a new TV show.
Steven Marrs and Courtney Hazlett of OutEast Entertainment are reportedly pitching a show titled Thank You Ashley Madison to TV networks. The strangest thing about the Hollywood Reporter story though, is how the producers intend to change the origin story of the website. Rather than real life creator Noel Biderman being portrayed, the proposed series would centre around a mother who creates the website to support her family.
Producer Courtney Hazlett told the Hollywood Reporter the show might explore a “third lane” to modern marriage and relationships. At least one website has suggested this could mean an exploration of polyamory, something far more open and honest than the affairs Ashley Madison has made its name on.
It might all be a moot point though, with reports circling the web claiming virtually all the female profiles on the affair website are robots. For internet illiterates that means they were fake accounts created by Ashley Madison employees. There’s a lot of computer sorcery involved, but if this report is to be believed the number of women using the service could have been anywhere between a couple of thousand and none at all.
Given the website claims to have around 30 million users, we’ve got to wonder if any of the men using the service got the affairs they were looking for.
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