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.