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Ursula Hayden, who performed as Babe the Farmer's Daughter for the original Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling and holds the rights to the original GLOW video library, filed a trademark on the term GLOW on 9/1.
What is interesting is the description of the trademark, which would include the premise of the Netflix series of the same name, which is based on the original GLOW television series:
"Entertainment services, namely, a continuing comedy-drama program broadcast and viewable through cable and broadcast television, video-on-demand services, web-based streaming via communications networks, and through recorded media, featuring a fictionalized account of the historical 1980s women's professional wrestling circuit and fictional accounts and back stories of participating performers and wrestlers; entertainment services, namely, production and promotion of filmed entertainment featuring women's professional wrestling; entertainment services in the nature of an ongoing fiction series distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media featuring the behind-the-scenes lives of characters performing in a professional women's sports and entertainment tour of live and recorded wrestling matches set against the cultural backdrop of the 1980s; providing information regarding the production and distribution of a fictionalized account of historically based professional women's wrestling as well as information about the genuine historical tour and its later exploits, and films and media featuring the original performers and tour. "
The trademark filing lists 1986 as the first usage of the term in business.
Filming will commence on the second season of Netflix series GLOW on 10/16 in California. The second season, like the first, will be ten episodes.
Loosely based on 1980s female wrestling league The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, the first season of GLOW was a critical success, telling the talent of a fictional troupe put together to film a TV pilot, which airs as the first season ends. The series is headed by Alison Brie playing Ruth Wilder, a down on her luck actress that sees the opportunity as her last chance at success and Marc Maron, who plays the world-weary director of the series, Sam Sylvia, who has to find himself as he attempts to lead these women to stardom.
Kia Stevens, best known as Awesome Kong in professional wrestling, had a tremendous turn as Tamee, stealing a number of scenes. Chavo Guerrero Jr. oversaw the wrestling sequences for the series. A number of other performers from professional wrestling, including Alex Riley, John Morrison, Tyrus, Christopher Daniels, Joey Ryan and Kazarian also appeared over the course of the first season.
Created by Liz Flahive (Homeland) and Carly Mensch (Orange is the New Black), GLOW was inspired by the 2012 documentary GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, which looked at the original promotion, why it shuttered and where its stars ended up.
If you missed my review of the first season, you can check it out by clicking here. Elite subscribers, you can click the headline below:
NETFLIX'S GLOW MAY BE THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO PRO WRESTLING IN FOREVER
by Mike Johnson
6/23/2017 10:58 AM
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