HBO and Actor Ferrell Working on Comedy

LOS ANGELES, September 20:
Actor Will Ferrell’s production company is branching out into television with a
comedy for HBO called P.E.

Ferrell and Adam McKay,
his partner in Gary Sanchez Prods, reportedly shopped the series around to various broadcast and cable networks
and created a bidding frenzy.

P.E., about a former major
league baseball pitcher who returns to his small Southern hometown to teach
physical education at the middle school he once attended while trying to make
amends with all the people he turned his back on, will be written by Jody Hill,
Ben Best and Danny McBride. The trio wrote and starred in the indie kung fu
comedy "The Foot Fist Way," which Hill directed.