In the Works: David Milch Eyes a Cop from New York City

David Milch by Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com
" Sources tell
Variety that for his next trick,
David Milch (
Deadwood, the deader wood
John from Cincinnati) is working with former
NYPD Blue exec producer Bill Clark to develop a drama about a Vietnam vet who joins the New York City police force circa 1970s.
" Hot off the success of
The Starter Wife, Lifetime is teaming with author
Gigi Levangie Grazer on a four-hour miniseries adaptation of
Maneater, Grazer's novel about a woman who bleeps her way to the top in Beverly Hills.
" Fox has ordered seven episodes of
Nothing But the Truth, a "game show" (my quotation marks) in which contestants are strapped to a lie detector in front of friends and family and asked 21 intensely personal questions. You may know the show as "Thanksgiving."