ABC Family picks up 'Samurai Girl'
February 14, 2008 ABC Family has picked up "Samurai Girl," which the cable network plans to air as a "major programming event" consisting of three two-hour episodes. "Samurai," based on Alloy Entertainment's series of popular young-adult novels, centers on a 19-year-old Japanese girl named Heaven (Jamie Chung) who discovers that the wealthy businessman who adopted her as an infant is really the head of the Yakuza, the Japanese mafia, and that he had her brother brutally murdered. "Samurai" was brought to ABC Family through Alloy; the company's Leslie Morgenstein and Bob Levy are executive producing.
