HBO preps comedy 'Review'

After a market crash, a magazine is struggling to survive. It sounds like a contemporary drama but is in fact a period comedy project from writer Andy Bellin in the works at HBO. Tentatively titled "The Review," the show is set at a New York literary magazine in the immediate aftermath of Black Monday in 1987, just in time to catch the tail end of the decade's "greed is good" excess. It centers on a young guy who leaves banking to work at the magazine right when it existence is threatened by funding cuts. Full story