Katie Couric's memoir is being adapted as a sitcom

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The former Today and CBS Evening News anchor is working with Disney Television, Two and a Half Men executive producer Eric Tanenbaum and Will & Grace and Black-ish executive producer Gail Lerner to turn her 2021 memoir Going There into a comedy series. "I was approached by a network executive after it came out, and she believed it would make a really good television series," Couric tells The Hollywood Reporter. "As I was writing it, I thought it did sound like a little bit like it was tailor made for a series, because it kind of has everything. It has a lot of ups and downs and triumphs and tragedies. I teamed up with Eric Tanenbaum and 20th Studios and Gail Lerner, who’s a fabulous writer who’s had her own tragic experience with her children and still managed to find joy and humor in in life. We’re going to give that a go, but who knows? Anything can happen. It’s very unpredictable." Couric adds that "I think there’s something very authentic about a true story. And I think you can call from that kind of IP, something that’s really hard to fabricate and hard to make up in a writer’s room when there are real life situations that you can draw from...I think that there’s so much ******** out there, that people want things that actually are real. And I think also, all the veneer of and the show businessy-ness of television news is kind of stripped away when you’re sitting at your desk with no makeup and you’ve got a ring light shining reflecting in your glasses and your hair isn’t done, that people appreciate. I think it plays on this whole authenticity idea that you brought up, that you’re kind of being straight with them. It’s also great, especially now in this era of corporate pressure where there’s a lot of what they’re calling anticipatory obedience, self-censorship and a fear about reporting what’s happening, that I don’t have any corporate overlords saying 'you can’t say that,' or I don’t have (former GE CEO) Jack Welch writing me a note, or somebody telling me to tone it down or don’t talk about this as much. I’m at the point in my career happily where I don’t have to worry about that. You see it happening."

[Edward216]

I bet this goes over like a lead balloon.

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[Chocolate Moose]

Wow. That sounds like 10 kinds of terrible.

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Originally Posted by Edward216

I bet this goes over like a lead balloon.

Ed.

Awful to say, but I thought the same thing. All this hype for the show and it will probably be a dud!