The Coen Siblings Enter Television With Hourlong Comedy At Fox From Imagine TV

EXCLUSIVE: Within the greatest-profile migration of feature talent to television to date this development season, Oscar-winning filmmakers Ethan Coen and Joel Coen are going to executive produce an hourlong single-camera comedy for Fox, that the two co-produced with another feature author, Phil Johnston (Cedar plank Rapids). The project, entitled HarveKarbo, has brought a script commitment with significant penalty from Fox. It originates from Imagine TV, whose principal John Grazer is credited with tempting the Coen siblings to television. (Ethan and Joel Coen did their 2003 feature Intolerable Cruelty with Imagine). HarveKarbo, which is compiled by Johnston, features the kind of cool, offbeat figures that are presently a standard feature of the Coen siblings’ movies. The result is the title character — an ill-tempered LA private eye whose cases frequently involve the depraved doings from the Hollywood elite — and the deadbeat buddies in La’ El Segundo. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Johnston, Grazer and Francie Calfo are executive creating for Imagine TV and twentieth century Fox TV. The Coen siblings have won 4 Oscars: 3 in 2008 for No Country For Old Males (best picture, writing and pointing) and something in 1997 for Fargo (writing). There is a total of 13 Oscar nominations, including 3 a year ago for True Grit, and many lately authored the approaching caper comedy Gambit, directed by Michael Hoffman. Johnston lately authored Disney Animation’s Wreck It Rob, which is launched in November 2012, and it is presently writing Reply All for DreamWorks with Zach Galifianakis attached. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen are with UTA, Johnston is by using CAA.