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[09/18/08 - 06:41 PM]
Development Update: Thursday, September 18
Updates include: "The Daily Show's" Jason Jones to visit "How I Met Your Mother"; HBO to adapt James Ellroy's alternative history books; and brothers Brian & Ed Burns set up a pair of drama projects at CBS.







AMERICAN TABLOID (HBO)
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:
9/18/08
STATUS:
previously in development (2009-2010 season)
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
script
DESCRIPTION:
drama, which may be a series or mini-series, based on james ellroy's alternative history books about three men and their shifting alliances with the cia, the mafia and the kennedys in a very different 1960s
CREW INFORMATION:
· Gary Goetzman as EP
· James Ellroy as BOOK
· Kirk Ellis as CRTR/EP
· Tom Hanks as EP
GENRE(S):
· drama
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Playtone