Lou Pearlman Series in Development, Following Former Boy Band Producer’s Death

26 August 2016 5:24 PM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »

On the one-week anniversary of his death, Lou Pearlman’s life story is getting the TV treatment.

Magnet Management and Condé Nast have acquired the rights to a recent article published this week about the former boy band producer, who launched *Nsync and Backstreet Boys, and infamously ran a $300 million Ponzi scheme.

He died one week ago on Friday, Aug. 19 in prison where he was serving a 25-year sentence.

Based on The New Yorker article titled, “We Live in the Pop-Culture World That Lou Pearlman Created,” the project will tell the story of Pearlman’s life with details of his rise from blimp business owner to the music mogul and then his fall to fraud.

The TV project is being developed as a limited series. Insiders tell Variety that three or four accomplished writers and directors have expressed interest in the project. The number of episodes for the limited run will be determined once a writer is »

- Elizabeth Wagmeister

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