People complain that there aren't any original TV shows anymore but you can find them if you care to look, sometimes in surprising places. Season three of Drop Dead Diva premieres this coming Sunday, June 19th, on Lifetime. I've actually been watching this show since it started and it is such a charmer that when we were offered a sneak peek at the new season, I had to take a look.If you don't know the premise of Drop Dead Diva here's the gist: a twentysomething aspiring model named Deb gets in a car accident because she's being totally dingy and painting her nails or something while driving. She goes up to heaven and after not being able to charm her way back to being alive with the angel checking her in, she hits the "return" key on his computer while he's distracted and that sends her back to Earth. But instead of waking up in her own hot, young model body, Deb wakes up in the body of a thirtyomething overweight, super smart lawyer named Jane Bingum (Brooke Elliott), who also just kicked the bucket. (I'm betting somewhere in Heaven, Jane is pissed.)
Deb-now-Jane is understandably upset as well. She rushes to find and tell her best friend and fellow model Stacy (April Bowlby) about it. However, before she can also tell her fiance, hottie-lawyer Grayson (Jackson Hurst), the same angel she tricked in heaven shows up and stops her. Because Fred the angel (Ben Feldman) screwed up at his post, he was assigned to Earth to keep an eye on Jane, and one of the rules is she's not supposed to tell anyone. So Deb-now-Jane is left to find her footing in a life, career, and relationships (or lack thereof) that aren't her own. She has the intelligence and practical knowledge of the original Jane, such as how to practice law, but none of her personal memories. On top of all that, it turns out that the law office where Jane works has just hired her fiance-before-death Grayson. Fred acts as Jane's conscience, but since he's new to Earth himself, he has a few mishaps along the way (like totally falling in love with Stacy first thing).
So that's the gist. Simple right? And that's before they get to the law cases.
