Showtime springs for Clooney’s ‘Fall’
Jun 23rd, 2008 | By admin | Category: News, televisionGeorge Clooney’s Smoke House shingle has set up half-hour comedy script “The Fall of Bob” at Showtime.
Project, penned by Danny Zuker (“Stacked”), is a dark single-camera laffer that revolves around a man whose life flashes before his eyes as he jumps off a building.
Show will follow the lead character, Bob, as he narrates his life through flashbacks.
Showtime’s been aggressively pursuing top-name talent of late, recently greenlighting the Steven Spielberg-produced, Diablo Cody-penned “United States of Tara.”
The channel also just piloted the darkly comedic “The End of Steve,” from Matthew Perry and Peter Tolan.
Meanwhile, the project reps the latest at Showtime from Clooney, who last year developed a televangelist-themed series at the cabler.
Clooney’s still more closely identified with HBO, having exec produced the series “Unscripted” and “K Street” at the pay cabler, as well as longforms such as “Sand and Sorrow” and “PU-239.”
Also in TV, Smoke House is developing the cop drama “Delta Blues” for TNT.
Zuker’s credits also include “Come to Papa,” “Just Shoot Me,” “Off Centre,” “Grace Under Fire” and the U.S. version of “Coupling.”
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