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The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Norman Lear, creator of both "All In the Family" and "The Jeffersons," as well as many other TV projects will be teaming with HBO to produce a new dramatic series set in the world of 1970s professional wrestling entitled "Everybody Hurts."
The series will be written by Aaron Blitzstein, who was a former Vice President of marketing for World Championship Wrestling has also written for FX's The Riches, The Late Show with David Letterman and other shows.
"Everybody Hurts" will be based on a family running a pro-wrestling business in New York with looks into the lives of the wrestlers and their fans.
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OMG WE'VE ONLY SAID FOR ABOUT A BILLION YEARS THAT WRESTLING WOULD MAKE AN AWESOME SHOW ON HBO. The crazy fucked up bullshit behind the stage makes for better drama than what's on the screen.
Good Things:
1) They've apparently got a guy who was actually involved in the business at one point to write the show. I haven't seen "The Riches" but I've heard that it's good, so this is promising.
2) IT'S ON HBO A;LDFJLAKFJD;LKAFJDLKAF
3) Fabulous title. Because, yeah.
Bad Things:
1) 1970s??? RILLY??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? I'm so so SO tired of the mainstream media's inability to think of wrestling beyond the 80s. Come the fuck on, man. God, it'd be SO much more interesting and about seventy billion times less potentially kitschy to set it in the early 2000s, post-WCW buyout, where there's only one major company left, no competition, some young upstart company heading way, and there's the growing independent scene.
2) No, seriously, 1970s??? That's the best you can do? WHAT
OMG, evilgmbethy, we totally should've written our pilot. Marks would be a BILLION times better.
The series will be written by Aaron Blitzstein, who was a former Vice President of marketing for World Championship Wrestling has also written for FX's The Riches, The Late Show with David Letterman and other shows.
"Everybody Hurts" will be based on a family running a pro-wrestling business in New York with looks into the lives of the wrestlers and their fans.
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OMG WE'VE ONLY SAID FOR ABOUT A BILLION YEARS THAT WRESTLING WOULD MAKE AN AWESOME SHOW ON HBO. The crazy fucked up bullshit behind the stage makes for better drama than what's on the screen.
Good Things:
1) They've apparently got a guy who was actually involved in the business at one point to write the show. I haven't seen "The Riches" but I've heard that it's good, so this is promising.
2) IT'S ON HBO A;LDFJLAKFJD;LKAFJDLKAF
3) Fabulous title. Because, yeah.
Bad Things:
1) 1970s??? RILLY??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? I'm so so SO tired of the mainstream media's inability to think of wrestling beyond the 80s. Come the fuck on, man. God, it'd be SO much more interesting and about seventy billion times less potentially kitschy to set it in the early 2000s, post-WCW buyout, where there's only one major company left, no competition, some young upstart company heading way, and there's the growing independent scene.
2) No, seriously, 1970s??? That's the best you can do? WHAT
OMG, evilgmbethy, we totally should've written our pilot. Marks would be a BILLION times better.