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Fox To Air TV Show About Text Messages

Fox has landed a multicamera coming-of-age TV show based on the popular Web site TextsFromLastNight. The site's signature slogan is "Remember that text you shouldn't have sent last night? We do."

Called "a living document of 20something life in 2009," the site launched in February and averages 4 million hits a day. The user-generated blog posts "regrettable," often embarrassing text messages usually sent late at night by people who are drunk or high.

"The show is about 20somethings in that post-college, pre-the-rest-of-their-lives limbo trying to figure out what to do, and texting is a large part of that," says Steve Holland, the show's writer. Holland was a co-producer on CBS' "The Big Bang Theory."

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