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Herring Wonder Ames for HBO

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Variety reported that Jonathan Ames’s “Bored to Death” just got greenlit by HBO.

The pilot will center on a Brooklyn writer who nurses a painful breakup by acting out his dream to live as a character out of a Raymond Chandler novel. As a result, he finds a new lease on life by offering up his services as an inexperienced private eye.

“The pilot is based on a short story I wrote, ‘Bored to Death’, for McSweeney’s #24,” says Ames. Unlike his Showtime pilot, ‘What’s Not to Love?’ he “won’t be playing the main character, though he does have my name, Jonathan Ames.” As for his favorite chandler novel – “hard to say; I love them all. I’m partial to ‘Farewell, My Lovely’ and ‘The Little Sister’.”

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