HBO teams with Oprah Winfrey and the writer of Secretary for promising new series.
Oprah Winfrey has been completely dominating the headlines lately with her announcement that she's ending her cultishly loved TV show after 25 years. So encompassing is her media coverage, even we're talking about the chat queen for the second time in a week.
Last week Oprah drilled Jenna Jameson about her porno past, and today we're learning that Winfrey has signed on to produce a sexually charged new series for HBO. Even better news is that the series' scribe, Erin Cressida Wilson, is best known for writing the perfect role in which to see Maggie Gyllenhaal nude, the S&M drama Secretary.
Variety reports:
Oprah Winfrey has a surprising project in the works. Her Harpo Films has made a deal with HBO to team on a sexually charged hourlong series pilot about a woman who leaves her seemingly perfect marriage and children in Santa Monica for the underbelly of L.A., where she indulges her secret fantasies and desires.
Pilot is being written by Erin Cressida Wilson, best known for writing 2002 indie pic "Secretary," which starred James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal film in the story of a boss-secretary relationship that veers into SM.
"It is unsentimental and pretty shocking, and there is something complicated and destructive driving her," [Harpo Films president Kate] Forte said. "It is literally a day at the pool, where she gets up, in sarong and flip-flops, and walks out of her life, leaving everyone behind so abruptly that her husband and kids initially think she's been kidnapped or murdered."Pair a possibly nudity-filled plot line with the mind that created the Mr. Skin Hall of Fame movie Secretary, and you've got one TV show that Mr. Skin will definitely be tuning in for.
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