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Former network head Robert Greenblatt has set up a limited series for development at Hulu, Variety has confirmed.

Greenblatt, via his first-look deal with Lionsgate Television, will executive produce a series adaptation of The Atlantic article “Death at a Penn State Fraternity” by Caitlin Flanagan.

The project is currently titled “Death at Penn State.” Based on a true story, the series’ official logline states, “The limited series explores fraternity life and specifically tells the story of Tim Piazza who fought for his life for 12 hours before his Beta Theta Pi brothers called 911. By then it was too late.”

“We are grateful and fully supportive of Lionsgate and Hulu taking on this project related to our son’s tragic and very preventable death,” said Jim and Evelyn Piazza. “Given the reckless and deplorable behavior of fraternity members and their advisors, the lack of oversight by the University and the National Fraternity...

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Robert Greenblatt is getting serious for his next TV foray.

The former Showtime, NBC and HBO Max topper has set up limited series Death at Penn State at Hulu via his first-look deal with Lionsgate Television.

The liited series, which is currently in development at the Disney-backed streamer, is based on Caitlin Flanagan’s November 2017 feature Death at a Penn State Fraternity. The project, like Flanagan’s story, explores fraternity life and specifically tells the story of Tim Piazza who fought for his life for 12 hours before his Beta Theta Pi brothers called 911. By then it was too late. Joe Hortua (Better Things, Home Before Dark) is writing the script and will exec produce alongside author Flanagan and Greenblatt. The latter’s The Green Room partner Jon Wu will serve as a co-ep. Kevin Bray will also exec produce and direct, with The Atlantic...

It was old school week on Bill Maher’s Friday Real Time. Fresh off a week away while his Adulting special ran in his regular HBO time slot, Maher celebrated his return by bringing in an old friend from the comedy circuit.

Bob Odenkirk, the Better Call Saul actor, comedian, producer, and author of the new memoir, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama, sat with Maher to talk about what it takes to stand on a stage and make an audience laugh.

But first, the talk turned to a Maher favorite of Odenkirk’s work: Mr. Show with Bob and David, a sketch comedy program which aired on HBO from 1995 to 1998.

“We were trying to copy (Monty) Python,” Odenkirk recalled. “We tried to keep that energy going. We packed a lot of ideas into them.” Sadly, Odenkirk didn’t say anything about a possible reprise of the beloved show.

Odenkirk allowed that...

Rapid fire is the publishing world's new normal, but inspiring long-form content is not a thing of the past. Enter #LongReads: a weekly post published on Fridays containing what we believe to be 5 of the most compelling pieces of long-form, entertainment-related content produced that week. Here are our picks for this week: "Before 'True Detective': The Short Stories of Nic Pizzolatto" by Christopher Orr, published by The Atlantic This piece is actually quite short, but it links to two short stories that were written by "True Detective" creator Nic Pizzolatto and published in The Atlantic some years ago. "The Dark Power of Fraternities" by Caitlin Flanagan, published by The Atlantic Ready, set, adapt: You might as well read this investigative piece on fraternity culture now because, let's face it, next year's Blacklist will probably have two or three scripts dealing with the issues raised here."The Class That Roared" by Sam Kashner,...

You expect a film premiere party for a documentary titled "Hey Bartender" to serve great drinks -- and in that department the Manhattan bash ahead of its theatrical bow today didn't disappoint. At the Experimental Cocktail Club on the Lower East Side, a crew of super savvy bartenders served up cocktails that had guests going back for seconds and from the looks of it, thirds, fourths and more. The film itself, out in select theaters and VOD today, is director Douglas Tirola's take on what the movie dubs "the cocktail revolution." To track it he follows several bartenders -- including an injured Marine who turns to bartending and a man who leaves his white-collar job to buy the corner bar in his hometown -- as they navigate the ups and downs of a very flavorful industry. With the weekend upon us, what better time to experiment by attempting to...

It's Sunday afternoon — your last chance to read all that stuff you meant to read last week before Monday brings a new deluge of things you will want to read. Below, some of our recommendations: "David Lynch Is Back … as a Guru of Transcendental Meditation" by Claire Hoffman (New York Times Magazine): The story of the director's search for enlightenment and his plan for creating world peace. "L’Étranger" by Lauren Collins (The New Yorker): The saga of France's most famous tax exile, Gérard Depardieu."Freakshow" by Natasha Vargas-Cooper (Out): A look inside weirdo-loving production company World of Wonder. "Inventing Marilyn" by Caitlin Flanagan (The Atlantic): A meditation on the things we read about Marilyn Monroe and the things she read herself. "Gchatting with George Saunders" by Katherine Bernard (Paris Review Daily): Self-explanatory. For more in-depth weekend readings, visit our friends at Longreads.

These songs seemed to have slipped from the Billboard top 200 some time ago: There's Tony Bennett's version, "Because of you, there's a song, in my heart; Because of you, my romance, had its start..." Then there's Frank Sinatra's "Holding hands in the movie show, when all the lights are low, may not be new, but I like it, how about you?" "Because of You" and "How About You?" seem made for the sexually repressed, pre-pill 1950's. They do not reflect mainstream U.S. today. Yet "Letters to Juliet," based on a play that was written somewhere between 1591 and 1595, reflects the .50's era in America more than our own time. This is not necessarily a bad thing, depending on your outlook on romance. For example, Caitlin Flanagan writes a critical book review in the June 2010 Atlantic magazine "How girls reluctantly endure the hookup culture." Hookup. There's a word that...