The untitled drama is the first project to come from the 'Six Feet Under' and 'True Blood' creator's new two-year deal with the premium cable network.
HBO is going back to its golden child, Alan Ball, for a new family drama.
The premium cable network has gone straight to series on an untitled multi-racial family drama from the Six Feet Under and True Blood creator, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. It's the first project to come from Ball's new two-year overall deal with HBO.
Here's the official logline: "This untitled series focuses on a contemporary multi-racial family: a philosophy professor, his lawyer wife, their three adopted children from Somalia, Vietnam and Colombia, and their sole biological child. This seemingly perfect, progressive family is in actuality harboring deep rifts. Then, one of the children begins to see things others cannot. Is it mental illness? Or something else? The series is a tragicomic meditation on the complicated forces at work on us all in America today."
Ball created the drama and will exec produce alongside his Your Face Goes Here banner topper Peter Macdissi. The drama marks the fifth collaboration for Ball with HBO and its sibling cabler, Cinemax, following Six Feet Under, True Blood and Banshee. He next exec produces Oprah Winfrey TV movie The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, due in 2017.
The series, which was poised to be announced Saturday at HBO's time at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour, marks the latest pickup for the cabler under new programming president Casey Bloys. It joins Bill Hader comedy Barry, due in 2017, and a roster of dramas that also includes Westworld, The Deuce and Sharp Objects, among others.
As for Ball's other current HBO drama pilot — Virtouso, a period musical entry that counts Elton John among its exec producers — the status of that remains unclear.
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