ABC greenlights Thomas' 'Cupid'

March 14, 2008 Thomas has described "Cupid" as a "reinvention" of his praised but short-lived 1998 ABC comedy series of the same name about a man who thinks he's a god sent to Earth by Zeus to unite 100 romantically challenged couples. The project, from ABC Studios and the original series' producer Sony Pictures TV, has been in development at ABC since the fall and is in first position to CW's "90210" spinoff. The pickup of "Cupid" puts Thomas in a position similar to the one Josh Schwartz found himself in last year, when both of his projects, NBC's "Chuck" and CW's "Gossip Girl," were picked up to pilots with "Chuck" in first position.

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