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Alec Baldwin is eyeing a return to Television.
The “30 Rock” alum would play a New York Mayor in an untitled series for NBC Productions and HBO, according to Deadline.
The Wells Tower-scripted series sees Baldwin play Joe Byrne, ”a billionaire real estate developer philanthropist, and celebrated socialite/tabloid fixture, who is unexpectedly rocketed into NYC politics when tragedy strikes the incumbent mayor and he is drafted to replace him.”
Baldwin and Cary Brokaw would serve as EPs on the series, which has had multiple bidders chasing it.
The series will likely shoot in New York in September.
“Cary and I were going to do this together nine years ago, but I got detoured by Lorne Michaels and Tina Fey into 30 Rock,” Baldwin told Deadline.
“The character is a philanthropist, a big businessman and well known tabloid fixture in New York,” Baldwin said. “He’s Trump without the baggage, Bloomberg but a Democrat, George Soros if he was in real estate, a left leaning Democrat who is also a businessman who understands the reality of how the city has to be run to create the right climate for the business community. He’s drafted for this run because the alternative would be catastrophe. We’ve seen from shows like Kevin Spacey’s House of Cards that you can go anywhere creatively. He throws Kate Mara’s character in front of a subway train and you think, what the hell is going on? You can create these Shakespearean character arcs, and pull the curtain back on how New York City is actually run and how political careers are made and lost in the city.”
NBCProductions had been trying to get Baldwin to do another sitcom for a while.
