Exclusive: Cynthia Mort, who created HBO's racy drama series Tell Me You Love Me and co-created the comedy pilot Tilda, is back in business with the pay cable channel. HBO has picked up a script for a half-hour series, which Mort co-wrote with author Mary Karr. Mort is executive producing the untitled project with feature producer Scott Rudin and Gail Lyon (Edge of Darkness), with Karr serving as co-executive producer. The show is based on Karr's life, which the poet and essayist has depicted in a series of autobiographies, including the bestseller The Liars' Club. It is described a a half-hour dark comedy about a family's attempt to become whole again, while trying to reconcile their dark and complex past and will center on a writer in New York with flashbacks to her growing up in Texas with a drinking problem. "It is a a pretty extraordinary story, which lends itself to a series,...
- 7/16/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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