hollywoodreporter.com - 11/12/2008
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After a market crash, a magazine is struggling to survive. It sounds like a contemporary drama but is in fact a period comedy project from writer Andy Bellin in the works at HBO. Tentatively titled "The Review," the show is set at a New York literary magazine in the immediate aftermath of Black ...
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Vulture —
... Ripped From the Headlines: A period comedy about a magazine struggling to survive in the face of an economic downturn is in the works at HBO. Written by former Paris Review staffer Andy Bellin, The Review is set in 1987 New York and follows a young man who leaves banking to work at a literary magazine just as funding cuts begin to threaten its existence. Recession? Job cuts? It'll be like watching your own life on HBO! [HR] ...
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Gawker: defamer —
... · HBO is developing a comedy pilot called The Review, set "at a New York literary magazine in the immediate aftermath of Black Monday in 1987." The Iran-Contra affair is suddenly cool again, in that detached, period, Mad Men kind of way. [THR] ...
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