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Thank You ‘High Potential’ for Finally Making Kaitlin Olson TV’s Biggest Star

Only seven episodes into the first season of High Potential, Kaitlin Olson’s crime drama is already ABC’s most-watched new series in six years — so where were these hordes of fans when The Mick needed saving?

On High Potential, Olson plays Morgan, a self-confident single mother of three who works as a cleaning lady for the LAPD. However, and unlike a certain janitor from another Olson project, Morgan is not-so-secretly a “high potential” intellectual with an IQ of 160. In the first episode, which a staggering 20 million viewers have watched since its premiere this past September 17th, Morgan successfully Good-Will-Huntings herself into a consultant position at the police department by cracking open a murder case during her graveyard shift.

The U.S. Government Tried to Ban the Original ‘Idle Hands’

Hollywood has been revisiting a lot of ‘90s teen horror franchises lately, from the new Scream movies, to the I Know What You Did Last Summer TV show, to the Jurassic World series that clearly took its cues from the Denise Richards classic Tammy and the T-Rex. 

Now it’s just been announced that Idle Hands is getting a remake (even though it was basically already a remake of that one scene from Army of Darkness).

The new Idle Hands is penned by Billy Bryk and Finn Wolfhard (of Stranger Things fame), and it will be produced by Jason Reitman. Presumably, a story about demonic possession will be a pleasant change of pace for Reitman after the hellish nightmare that is Saturday Night Live’s backstage politics.

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