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It’s time to party like it’s 2007, because the Plain White T’s hit single “Hey There Delilah” is being adapted into a TV series. How exactly do you turn a song into a TV show, you may ask? According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Plain White T’s have joined forces with Lively McCabe Entertainment and Primary Wave to develop a scripted romantic dramedy about the song’s central long-distance relationship. The project’s producers are reportedly pitching the “contemporary fairy tale” to networks and studios in Los Angeles this month.

Unless you lived under a rock from 2006 to 2010, you’ve probably heard the band’s chart-topping song and its catchy refrain, “Hey there Delilah, what’s it like in New York City?” The 2006 single tells the story of a struggling singer-songwriter trying to keep up a long-distance romance with a college student named (you guessed it) Delilah, who lives in (you guessed it) New York City. Despite living 1,000 miles apart, the singer promises that his music will bring them closer, and he dreams about the day that they can be together for good. “Hey There Delilah” isn’t exactly the world’s most complex single, but it’s a perfectly adequate love story — for a song. But as a series? Who knows how the Plain White T’s magnum opus will fare.

“It’s been more than a decade since ‘Hey There Delilah’ was released, and people always ask me about it,” said the band’s frontman and songwriter Tom Higgenson. “A whole lot of people really connected with that song, and I’m very proud of that. I’m so excited to have an opportunity to give a new generation the chance to form their own connection with the song, and fall in love with its story through this new project.” Higgenson came up with the show’s concept with writer Jeremy Desmon and Lively McCabe co-president Michael Barra, who believes that the love story established in the song is “begging to be expanded into a full-length story for contemporary television audiences.”

I wouldn’t exactly say that “Hey There Delilah” is “begging” to be adapted into a TV show, but sure, why not. It’s better than another Roseanne spin-off.