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Peacock Develops Larry Lavin Drama With Colin Jost Attached to Star

The project signals a fresh push into podcast-to-screen true-crime storytelling.

Overview

  • Peacock put the untitled series into development Thursday, with Colin Jost set to executive-produce and star if it moves forward.
  • The drama adapts Season 1 of Audacy’s Wolves Among Us, which follows Larry Lavin, an Ivy League-trained dentist who secretly ran a cocaine network.
  • Alex Barnow will write and serve as showrunner under Universal Television, with executive producers Jeff Grosvenor and Rachel Kaplan and co-executive producers Larry Lavin, Matt Davis and Steve Seidel.
  • The show remains ungreenlit, and details such as episode count, tone and additional casting are not set.
  • Reports note Jost’s Saturday Night Live role will continue, the series may include comedic notes, and it would be his first primetime starring role in a scripted drama.