'Grease' prequel gets a greenlight at Paramount+ for 10-episode show

Paramount+ has grabbed the rights to ‘Grease’ prequel series.

Titled ‘Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies’, it will be a prequel to the beloved musical. The 10-episode show takes place four years before the original Grease. As per the show’s logline, “before rock ‘n’ roll ruled, before the T-Birds were the coolest in the school, four fed-up, outcast girls dare to have fun on their own terms, sparking a moral panic that will change Rydell High forever.”

Stockard Channing, Didi Conn, Dinah Manoff and Jamie Donnelly played the Pink Ladies in the 1978 feature film version of Grease.

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The show has taken a rather long road to its green light at Paramount+. The show was originally titled Grease: Rydell High and scored a straight to series order from HBO Max in October 2019.

However, it was scrapped at HBO Max but a management change led to a new life for it. After a new title and an overhaul of the content, the prequel is finally going to take shape.