CBS Options Girls Above Me Twitter Feed For Sitcom

Apparently CBS really likes Twitter. With $#*! My Dad Says an inexplicable success for the network (fine, I’m biased against Shatner), CBS has now optioned a second Twitter feed for a sitcom: Charlie McDowell’s Dear Girls Above Me. The account features regular 140-character responses to things Charlie hears from the 2 “annoying girls” who moved into the apartment above him in Los Angeles.

I follow Charlie’s Twitter because 1) he’s funny and 2) he’s Malcolm McDowell’s son & Alexander Siddig‘s cousin. (Yes, more bias.) But can it transfer to the small screen? I do think there’s more comedy potential with this than $#*!. Obviously the “falling in love with the girl next door” concept is built-in, complete with the requisite initial snarkiness, the meet-cute, then the pining. We have at least a season’s worth of material right there.

Charlie will co-write the pilot and the project will be produced by Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg and David Schiff.