LeBron James Developing TV Series for Starz

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Having fulfilled his goal of winning an NBA championship a couple of times over, LeBron James is taking his talents to cable television. The Starz cable channel said on Tuesday â€" not in an hourlong TV special, but in a news release â€" that it was working with Mr. James, the Miami Heat forward and four-time NBA most valuable player, to develop a half-hour comedy series called “Survivor’s Remorse.” This series, Starz said, will “explore the complexity, comedy and drama of an experience that everyone reads about, but few understand - what truly happens when you make it out.” The network said this scripted series will chronicle two fictional cousins who grew up in a tough Philadelphia neighborhood and, having since achieved fame and fortune, now struggle “with the rewards of money, stardom, love and, occasionally, the guilt of having ‘madeit.’”

“Survivor’s Remorse,” which is still in development and has not yet been ordered as a series, will be produced by Mr. James and Maverick Carter, his childhood friend and business manager; as well as Tom Werner, the “Cosby Show” producer turned chairman of the Boston Red Sox; and Mike O’Malley, the comic actor who has appeared on  “Glee” and “Justified.”

Mr. James said in a statement that “Survivor’s Remorse” would offer “a story that needed to be told.” Among his favorite shows, he cited “Boardwalk Empire,” “24,” “Scandal” and “Magic City,” a Starz series that ended this summer.