History Series / DropDeadDiva

Deb Dobkins (Creator/BrookeDOrsay) is an attractive, ditzy blonde model with aspirations of being a game show hostess. She is engaged to be married to her lawyer fiancé Grayson (Jackson Hurst), who is interviewing at a new firm. She goes off to her audition to be a model on ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'', talking to her friend Stacy (Creator/AprilBowlby) on her cell phone and filing her nails, [[WomenDrivers all at the same time]]. Poor Deb; iif she had looked up for only a minute, maybe she would have noticed the grapefruit delivery truck parked in the middle of the intersection up ahead...

* CloningBlues: Invoked in "Chinese Wall". Though in this case the clone is a dog and it's the master that's blue. The dog is "imperfect" in that it no longer responds to the master's commands.

** Averted when Jane has a difficult crisis in the first season finale. [[spoiler: One of her clients pulls a 5-million dollar scam and Jane decides to turn him in, violating attorney-client privilege and potentially leading to her disbarment.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: In the fifth season premiere, it seems that [[spoiler: Owen is dead, and Old Jane has taken over his body]]; however, it turns out that [[spoiler: Owen is alive, which Jane finds out after asking a small series of questions when he comes into her office. Old Jane shows up at the end of the episode in a model's body]].

** Also, the more Deb learns and experiences Jane's life and hears about Jane's life before Debbization, the more the viewers start to see how Deb as an outside observer makes rather insightful observations on her life. Indeed, there are signs that ditzy but well meaning Deb may actually be making a better life for Jane than Jane ever was. [[spoiler: Such as re-connecting with Jane's absent dad and getting Jane's mom to go into therapy for bi-polar disorder.]]

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* SecretKeeper: The only ones that know Jane is Deb are Stacy and her guardian angels, Fred (Seasons 1-3), Luke (Season 4), and Paul (Seasons 5-6) and in the sixth and final season [[spoiler: Grayson]]

* SecretSecretKeeper: On her deathbed, [[spoiler: Jane's mom, Elaine reveals she always knew Deb wasn't really Jane but still loves her like her real daughter.]]

** When Jane [[spoiler: finally confesses to Grayson she's Deb]], he believes it because of how [[spoiler: he's noticed over the last few years "Jane" saying little things only Deb would have known]].
** [[spoiler: Grayson]] pulls this himself to convince Deb he's been [[spoiler: reborn into a man now in prison]].

* WhamEpisode: The season 4 finale. [[spoiler: Jane kisses Grayson on the day that she's due to marry Owen. Owen sees them and has a heart attack. Meanwhile, the original Jane pushes the Return button and comes back in Owen's body.]]
** Also season 6, episode 9. [[spoiler: Grayson defends a murderer and is shot.]]

* HasTwoMommies : Although the mommies in question don't know it. Jane deals with both Deb's mother, Bobbie, and Jane's mother, Elaine.

A drama/comedy/fantasy series on Creator/{{Lifetime}}.

Deb Dobkins (Creator/BrookeDOrsay) is an attractive, ditzy blonde model with aspirations of being a game show hostess. She is engaged to be married to her lawyer fiancé Grayson (Jackson Hurst), who is interviewing at a new firm. She goes off to her audition to be a model on ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'', talking to her friend Stacy (Creator/AprilBowlby) on her cell phone and filing her nails, [[WomenDrivers all at the same time]]. Poor Deb. If she had looked up for only a minute, maybe she would have noticed the grapefruit delivery truck parked in the middle of the intersection up ahead.

Meanwhile at the law firm of Harrison & Parker, Jane Bingum (Brooke Elliott) is preparing for her day. She is a literal PlainJane: mousy, overweight, and is obsessed with self-help books. Jane chats with her witty assistant Terri Lee (Creator/MargaretCho) and haughty rival lawyer Kim Kaswell (Kate Levering), who is busy showing off her new designer purse. Jane steps out of her office just in time to see an armed gunman take the office hostage. Her boss, Jay Parker (Josh Stamberg), was apparently dating the gunman's wife. Jane tries to calm down the situation, but trips over Kim's purse and the paranoid gunman shoots her dead.

You're probably asking, 'What the hell, the two main characters die in the first episode?' but rest assured, here is where it gets good.

Deb gets stopped on her way to heaven by angel Fred (Creator/BenFeldman), because she has never done a good or bad deed in her whole life.
"It doesn't mean you're a bad person. Probably just really shallow," he tells her. Outraged, Deb pushes the return button on Fred's keyboard and is sent back to Earth...into ''Jane's'' recently vacated body.

Now poor Deb/Jane has to deal with a lot: being a skinny girl in a fat girl's body; working as a lawyer using Jane's legal smarts (strange fact, Deb has all of Jane's knowledge of courtroom operations, but no memories of Jane's past); handle working in the same room with her (ex?)fiancé (turns out Harrison & Parker was the firm Grayson interviewed at); and overall just get used to her new life, including dealing with things from her pasts as both Deb and Jane.

P.S. Because of what Deb/Jane did, Fred was sent to Earth as her guardian angel, or as he calls it, her babysitter. Along the way, he gets a crush on Stacy, whom Jane lets in on the big secret.

The show was cancelled after an initial four season run, but Lifetime reversed the decision and aired season five in 2013.

* AlliterativeName : Deb Dobkins, Kim Kaswell.

* {{Meganekko}}: Stacy wears a pair while helping Grayson on a case.

* HateSink: Charles Ellis from "The Long Road to Napa" is one in and out of universe. Charles married Maria and then married Emily without telling either woman about the other. After lying to them for five years, Charles is chaught and they sue. During the trial, not only is it revealed that Charles got free stuff for his business because of his marriages, but Charles was also engaged to a third woman. The judge actually forces Charles to settle out of court because the jury all hated him.

Deb Dobkins (Creator/BrookeDOrsay) is an attractive, ditzy blonde model with aspirations of being a game show hostess. She is engaged to be married to her lawyer fiancé Grayson (Jackson Hurst), who is interviewing at a new firm. She goes off to her audition to be a model on ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'', talking to her friend Stacy (Creator/April owlby) on her cell phone and filing her nails, [[WomenDrivers all at the same time]]. Poor Deb. If she had looked up for only a minute, maybe she would have noticed the grapefruit delivery truck parked in the middle of the intersection up ahead.