HBO is once again betting on the ladies. Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Lizzy Caplan has teamed up with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez to develop Julie Klausner’s hilarious memoir, “I Don’t Care About Your Band,” into a comedy series for the network.
Caplan, whose series “Party Down” was just canceled by Starz after its second season, is also producing and looking to star in the comedic exploration of sex, dating and stand up material. The memoir, which was published earlier this year through Gotham, is a frank, refreshing and hilarious take on what it’s like for single, educated women to date in New York City with men trying to make it in bands, as comedians, writers or worse, actors. The story weaves through Klausner’s Scarsdale-musical-theater-loving upbringing to her stints at finding production work, while sleeping with awful stand up comedians.
Caplan received rave reviews from her small arc on HBO’s “True Blood” last season and for her work on the critically acclaimed, but ratings challenged “Party Down.” Caplan and Burke will produce, with Gary Sanchez’ Ferrell, McKay and Chris Henchy executive producing, extending the company’s dealings with HBO, who is a part owner of Sanchez’s FunnyorDie.com. This writer is a massive fan of Klausner’s self deprecating, yet self-embracing style, and only someone with the sardonic wit of Caplan can do the role justice. And now all of us ladies can rejoice in the exploration of “dating” so-called thespians and pulling overnights in loft beds in Astoria, Queens, as opposed to drinking cosmopolitans and worshiping at the altar of doable vampires in Manolo Blahniks.
Yessssss… this is amazing news.
Let's just hope HBO doesn't turn this into another awful post-SATC, Entourage/How To Make It In America non-comedy.