Coens head to TV (DH, THR)
By Nancy Tartaglione-Moore
The Coen brothers are to executive produce an hourlong single-camera comedy for Fox, which the two co-created with Phil Johnston. Deadline reports the Imagine TV project, "Harve Karbo," has a script commitment with significant penalty from Fox.
Show will be written by Johnston and follows an ill-tempered private investigator whose cases frequently involve the depraved doings of the Hollywood elite - and his deadbeat friends in El Segundo.
This is Joel and Ethan's first foray into television. They will executive produce for Imagine TV and 20th Television with Brian Grazer and Francie Calfo.
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