HBO is reteaming with the producers behind Entourage to develop a politically charged series.
Variety reports that Leverage’s Stephen Levinson,Mark Wahlberg and Doug Ellin are prepping a project that centers on a young political aide and his relationship with his idol, the former President of the United States.
Ben Schwerin is writing the project and would serve as co-exec producer, while Ellin, Levinson and Wahlberg are all attached as executive producers.
The new series continues the paybox’s relationship with Levinson and Wahlberg, who are also exec producers on In Treatment and the upcoming Martin Scorsese drama Boardwalk Empire. The duo are also exec producers on HBO’s new buddy comedy How to Make It in America.
Separately, HBO is developing a half-hour dramedy series to be based on the Pamela Des Barres’ memoir, I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie. Deadline.com reports that Zooey Deschanel will star and executive produce with her manager Sarah Jackson of Seven Summits, and Tim Gibbons, an executive producer of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm.
