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Exclusive: Ken Jeong is set to star in a half-hour dramedy about life failures that is in the works at Amazon with Daniel Dae Kim producing.

The I Can See Your Voice host and The Masked Singer panelist, who shot to fame with his role in The Hangover movies, is attached as the lead in Shoot the Moon.

The single-camera project is loosely inspired by the “life failures” of Paul Bae, a former high school English teacher and stand-up comedian who created The Black Tapes podcast series.

Bae was an evangelical youth pastor who married his college sweetheart. After he lost his wife to divorce and Jesus to atheism, he embarked on a stumbling, years-long journey with his friends and family back to wholeness.

The series will follow Michael (Jeong), a son of Korean immigrants who has achieved the American Dream and suddenly finds it illusory when his marriage and career fall apart,...

A supremely unsettling audio fiction podcast, The Black Tapes has been giving horror fans nightmare fuel since it launched in 2015, and now NBC is looking to bring it to life on the small screen.

Deadline reports that a "supernatural drama based on The Black Tapes podcast" is in development at NBC. Entertainment 360 and Universal TV are teaming up with Matthew Arnold and The Black Tapes podcast co-creators Paul Bae and Terry Miles on the project, with the lattermost three writing and executive producing.

According to Deadline, the adaptation "follows a journalist’s investigations into the unexplained supernatural mysteries caught on tape by a skeptical scientist. Each week the two of them embark on a journey exploring the literal and figurative ghosts that haunt them both."

For those unfamiliar with The Black Tapes podcast, you can visit their website for more information, and you can also check out the podcast's official description below.

NBC is developing a small screen adaptation of the podcast The Black Tapes, Deadline reports this afternoon. The supernatural drama will be written and executive produced by “Emerald City” co-creator Matthew Arnold and podcast creators Paul Bae and Terry Miles. “The Black Tapes” adaptation follows a journalist’s investigations into the unexplained supernatural mysteries caught on tape by a skeptical […]...

NBC has put in development a supernatural drama based on The Black Tapes podcast, from Emerald City co-creator Matthew Arnold, podcast creators Paul Bae and Terry Miles, Entertainment 360 and Universal TV.

Written and executive produced by Arnold, Bae and Miles, The Black Tapes adaptation follows a journalist’s investigations into the unexplained supernatural mysteries caught on tape by a skeptical scientist. Each week the two of them embark on a journey exploring the literal and figurative ghosts that haunt them both.

Guymon Casady and Ben Forkner executive produce for 360 Productions. Universal TV is the studio.

In the podcast, host Alex Reagan narrates a nonfiction-styled fictional story over multiple episodes, using a format that has been compared to Serial. The story begins as a biography of paranormal investigator Dr. Richard Strand, an “evangelical skeptic” on a mission to debunk all claims of the supernatural. Reagan becomes interested in his collection of unsolved cases,...

SEOUL -- LG Electronics' mobile phones will come with Google services preinstalled beginning in April, LG has announced.

The deal will see such applications as Google Maps, Gmail and Blogger Mobile installed on select phones in Asia, Europe and North America.

"LG's mobile devices, combined with Google, will provide consumers with easy access to their favorite Internet services even without a PC and make it easy for them to stay connected while in motion," said Paul Bae, vp of product planning at LG Electronics Mobile Communications Co.

LG, the world's fifth-largest mobile phone manufacturer, and Google will jointly market the LG-Google handsets, with plans to extend their collaboration "to develop the digitalized home."...