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Nickelodeon’s newest live-action series, True Jackson VP, sounds like a show your tween/teen will watch. and you’ll actually be cool with that.
Claiming to be indebted to both Big and The Devil Wears Prada, the show centers on 15-year-old True Jackson (Keke Palmer of that Starbucks flick, Akeelah and the Bee), a no-nonsense, fashion-forward teenager. When she’s selling sandwiches outside the offices of a major fashion label one day, the head of the company’s so intrigued by her “young yet marketable” fashion sense that he makes her VP of his youth apparel line faster than you can say Lauren Conrad. Needless to say, True learns to navigate nasty office politics with the help of her best high school buds, Lulu and Ryan.
Ten bucks says Lulu is kooky but insightful, and Ryan harbors a crush on True (which will be teased throughout the first twenty eps and play a part in the season finale.) But we’ll still tune in. We love that True will learn “corporate life has the same highs and lows of high school, complete with cliques, mean girls and crushes.” Because it so does.
We do hope the show’s writers go out of their way to avoid dialogue which too cutely incorporates the lead character’s name. Someone saying, “True dat!” every time a meanie gets their comeuppance would just be too obvious.
Look for True Jackson, VP to join the TEENick line-up this fall, along with iCarly.
