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Privileged

Sunday July 19, 2009

7:00PM

E4

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The Pitch

Twenty-three-year-old Megan Smith is a Yale educated journalism major. Stuck working for a dead end tabloid paper, she has great plans to take the writing world by storm. In a bizarre turn of events, Megan finds herself jobless and becomes the live-in tutor for the spoiled daughters of a Palm Beach cosmetics magnate. The beautiful, rebellious girls are less than welcoming to Megan, but she’s determined to win them over…

The Talent

Joanna Garcia is fab as Megan Smith and Lucy Hale and Ashley Newbrough are suitably hideous as the spoilt Baker sisters. The makers of Privileged haven’t let us down on the eye candy front either; we’ve got the delectable Brian Hallisay to ogle over. New crush alert!

The Verdict

The show’s already been a huge success in the States and we can see why. From the makers of Gossip Girl, Privileged gives us everything we want from TV. Beautiful people swanning around their beautiful surroundings – there’s plenty of bitch fights too. The only disappointment is the lack of Chuck and Nate, but we’re thinking new character Will Davis might just fill the void…

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