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Award-winning podcast wisecrack He could go to another way.
Universal Studio Group’s UCP has acquired the rights to adapt the podcast — which won Podcast of the Year at the Ambie Awards in February — for a scripted series. The studio beat out other bidders in a competitive mode.
Elie Jornet (Secession, The Walking Dead: Dead City) will adapt wisecrack And work as an executive producer on the television project. Executive producers also include Nick Antosca and Alex Hedlund for Eat the Cat (the lawthe next Apple TV Cape of fear) Donald Albright and Payne Lindsay for Tenderfoot TV, Conal Byrne and Carrie Lieberman for iHeartMedia and Judy Tofay and Charles Forbes for Starwipe Productions. Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts were behind the podcast, and Tovay produced it.
wisecrack The film tells the wild true story of comedian Ed Hedges, “who returned to his hometown for a charity event, only to find himself headlining the scariest night of his life,” the log says. “What started as a heartwarming homecoming quickly turns into a terrifying story when a killer begins claiming lives hours after his murder. The ordeal becomes personal when the killer arrives on Hedges’ doorstep. The investigation stretches from the English village of Hedges to the courtroom and prison, before returning to the stage where his story began.”
Along with Podcast of the Year honors, Wisecrack also won Ambie Awards for Best Community and Culture Podcast, Best Production and Sound Design, and Best Nonfiction Screenwriting. Hedges and Tovay are currently on a live tour with the podcast, with stops in Nashville, Atlanta, and Austin in the next two weeks.
Gemma Levinson and Julia Moniak will supervise the TV project for the Eat the Cat series.
Jorné currently serves as an executive producer on the third season of Severance on Apple TV. He created and was the director of the show The Walking Dead: Dead City And also worked on The walking deadStars Heels and FX Wilfred.
Jornet is repped by UTA and Hansen Jacobson. Antosca works with WME and Ginsburg Daniels. Tenderfoot TV is repped by UTA and The Nord Group. iHeartMedia is repped by UTA. Starwipe Productions with Gersh.
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