Truman Show TV series being planned

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/apr/10/truman-show-tv-series

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The Truman Show, the 1998 film about a man who unwittingly has his entire life filmed for a TV show, could itself become a TV series.

The studio Paramount is considering taking a raft of existing content that it owns, including The Truman Show as well as novels, screenplays and non-fiction, and developing them into new TV shows. "We have three buckets of content we're looking at, and one of them is intellectual property the studio, which has been around for over 100 years, owns," Paramount exec Amy Powell told The Wrap.

Other potential sources include The Alienist, the 1994 novel by Caleb Carr which Powell called "an incredible piece of writing – when I was looking through our library, I thought this is something we have to do." The book is about a murder investigation in New York in 1896 by police commissioner (later president) Theodore Roosevelt and an 'alienist', or psychologist. Also being mooted for an adaptation is a biography of Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly non-stop across the Atlantic.

The Truman Show, starring Jim Carrey, pre-empted the ubiquity of reality television, sharply satirising its commodification of everyday life. It was nominated for three Oscars, and made $264m at the box office, as well as cementing Carrey as an increasingly serious acting talent. There are no further details on the potential TV series, but a new head of production, Jason Fisher, has been poached by Paramount from AMC – he oversaw hit shows like Mad Men, Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead.