In Treatment writer Davey Holmes is taking his act to Fox with Worthy, his new drama spec script about an Arizona politician who is blackmailed by mobsters after a hit-and-run accident. Fox clearly digs the script: according to The Hollywood Reporter, they’ve made a pilot commitment.
Holmes, who sounds like the offspring of a brilliant English detective and a tentacled supernatural pirate, says the script came out of his fascination with morality in politics and the glut of recent high-profile political scandals. While the show will allude to real-life events, they’ll be fictionalized enough to keep things interesting, Law & Order style.
In addition to HBO’s therapy-fest In Treatment, Holmes previously worked on the gone-but-not-forgotten Pushing Daisies and – proving that my comparisons are oddly prescient – Law & Order. Holmes will executive produce the show with Gavin Polone.
