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Prime-Time Country Club “Soap Opera” Coming to TV

By Joe Barks | January 24, 2014

Deadline Hollywood reports that David O. Russell, writer/director of American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook and The Fighter, has teamed with Susannah Grant, writer of Erin Brockovich, to develop a 13-episode television series for ABC described as “an upstairs/downstairs soap opera…a modern-day Downton Abbey…that will be set at a private country club.”

Club managers have often privately joked—or lamented—how much of a soap opera their jobs can be. Now Deadline Hollywood is reporting that the ABC television network has contracted with two giants of the movie industry, David O. Russell and Susannah Grant, to capture those moments for a new TV series described as an “upstairs/downstairs soap, set at a private country club.”

According to Deadline Hollywood’s report, ABC has contracted with Russell, writer/director of American Hustle, currently nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, as well as Silver Linings Playbook and The Fighter (both of which also earned those nominations), and Grant, writer of Erin Brockovich, to develop a 13-episode season for the still-untitled project, which Spinoff Online, another entertainment-news website, called “a bit like a modern-day Downton Abbey.”

The project will mark Russell’s first foray into television, Spinoff Online noted. The television story for the new series was co-written by Russell and Grant, and Grant then handled the actual teleplay. Russell will stay on as co-Executive Producer.

About The Author

Joe Barks

Joe Barks contributes to Club & Resort Business magazine working out of Wayne, Pa. (suburban Philadelphia). He has been covering the club and resort industry since the launch of C&RB in April 2005 and during that time has written cover-story profiles of over 150 club and resort properties, as well as many additional articles about specific aspects of club management and profiles of leading club managers. Barks has been a writer and editor for specialized business publications for over 40 years, covering a wide variety of industries and professional disciplines over the course of his career. He is a four-time winner of Jesse H. Neal Awards from the American Business Press, known as the “Pulitzer Prizes” for industry trade publications. He has also been a freelance contributor to many leading national consumer and business publications, and served as Marketing Manager for the Hay Group, a leading worldwide management consulting firm. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

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