{"id":118217,"date":"2024-08-12T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T12:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/12\/huey-lewis-mockumentary-tv-series-in-the-works\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T12:01:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T12:01:15","slug":"huey-lewis-mockumentary-tv-series-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/08\/12\/huey-lewis-mockumentary-tv-series-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Huey Lewis mockumentary TV series in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the past year, Huey Lewis<\/strong> has appeared in the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary The Greatest Night in Pop<\/em> and seen a musical based on his songs open on Broadway. Now he’s got a broadcast television project moving forward.<\/p>\n

Deadline<\/em> reports<\/a> that Huey will star in and executive produce Whatever Happened to Huey Lewis,<\/em> a half-hour mockumentary series in which he’ll play a fictionalized version of himself, sort of how Larry David<\/strong> played a version of himself in Curb Your Enthusiasm.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The series will follow Huey as he tries to figure out his next move after losing his hearing, which he actually did. In 2018, he revealed that he\u00a0has\u00a0M\u00e9ni\u00e8re\u2019s disease<\/span>, which has left his hearing so damaged that he’s unable to sing. According to Deadline,<\/em> the story will also focus on Huey’s “codependent family and eccentric celebrity friends.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Deadline<\/em> reports that the show, written by Kirker Butler<\/strong>, whose credits include Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building,<\/em> is in development at Fox.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, Deadline<\/em> reported in 2021<\/a> that Lewis had another show in development at Fox, produced by the same production company: an anthology series in which each self-contained episode would be inspired by a Huey Lewis & the News<\/strong> song. That show was conceived as an homage to ’80s and ’90s romantic comedies. It’s not clear if or when that might emerge.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABC\/Paula Lobo In the past year, Huey Lewis has appeared in the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary The Greatest Night in Pop and seen a musical based on his songs open on Broadway. Now he’s got a broadcast television project moving forward. Deadline reports that Huey will star in and executive produceRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}