Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's recently launched Gary Sanchez Prods. is expanding into television with "P.E.," a single-camera comedy for HBO says The Hollywood Reporter.
Jody Hill, Ben Best and Danny McBride ("The Foot Fist Way") will write "P.E.," which centers on a guy who, after flaming out as a major league baseball pitcher, returns to his small Southern hometown to teach physical education at the middle school he once attended and has to make amends with all the people he turned his back on.
After a bidding frenzy among a number of broadcast and cable networks, the project landed at HBO in what source one of the pay cable network's richest development deals, with sizable penalties attached to it.
