Piers Morgan to Exec Produce Tabloid Journalism Drama for Starz
Posted: 5/9/2013 | By: Lesley Goldberg | The Hollywood Reporter
Starz is turning its lens on tabloid journalism.
The cable network home to DaVinci's Demons and the upcoming Black Sails is developing a period drama about tabloid journalism with CNN's Piers Morgan -- a former tabloid editor of The Sun, News of the World and Daily Mirror -- attached to executive produce.
Fleet Street is set in England in the 1970s and will chronicle the rise of tabloid journalism, the sexual revolution and class warfare -- told through the eyes of an American journalist.
The cable network home to DaVinci's Demons and the upcoming Black Sails is developing a period drama about tabloid journalism with CNN's Piers Morgan -- a former tabloid editor of The Sun, News of the World and Daily Mirror -- attached to executive produce.
Fleet Street is set in England in the 1970s and will chronicle the rise of tabloid journalism, the sexual revolution and class warfare -- told through the eyes of an American journalist.