TV producer and scribe Eileen Myers has inked an overall deal with Sony Pictures TV. Myers has penned episodes of series such as “Big Love,” “Hung,” and “Masters of Sex.” Deadline reports that the new deal focuses solely on development. She’s already sold a drama to Showtime.
Written on spec, “Queen Fur” centers on a plus size woman in the South who dreams of winning the local Muskrat Festival beauty contest — while simultaneously “[running] guns for militias,” the source details. Showtime made a “premium deal” for the drama. Myers will executive produce alongside Deborah Spera (“Army Wives,” “Criminal Minds”) and David Frankel (“The Devil Wears Prada,” “Sex and the City”). The latter will direct.
Myers also has another buzzy project in the works at Sony TV, a limited series in development at AMC starring “Better Call Saul’s” Bob Odenkirk. The “Breaking Bad” alumnus will play New York Times journalist David Carr in an adaptation of the late writer’s memoir, “Night of the Gun.”