From the New York Observer:
HBO's taking on the $46 million herbal weight loss industry with a new pilot, Fat Sells.
The network just greenlit the Forest Whitaker-produced show, which will
follow a fat cat in the industry whose life begins to unravel once the
FDA begins investigating the company's claims, according to Variety.
The magazine also reports that the show will be written by Gren Wells, an executive producer of NBC's hit weight loss show The Biggest Loser.
From io9:
Showtime is bringing in The Exterminators,
courtesy of a just-announced adaptation of DC Comics' horror series
from the Vertigo line. In a strange moment of the circuitous nature of
media, Vertigo's The Exterminators actually started life as a pitch for a TV show by writer Simon Oliver
before being turned into a 30-issue series about ex-con Henry James'
experiences working for Bug-Bee-Gone, an exterminator company run by
his stepfather. It sounds dull until you learn about the
possibly-mystical mysterious box with some connection to insects, Nazis
and the Gulf War.
Let's hold off on asking how many tubetopped hotties HBO will have to pack into a show about fat people in order to get their horny-ass viewers to watch... and we're guessing that's a lot... and note that despite the fact that TimeWarner owns DC/Vertigo, it's SHOWTIME that's finally bringing a Vertigo title to life, despite the fact that Preacher, probably the greatest longform comic of the '90's, languished in HBO development for years.
HBO Original Programming: you're officially a fuckin' FAIL.
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