Eddie Izzard U.S. cablenet FX is developing a new political drama

Eddie Izzard U.S. cablenet FX is developing a new political drama, working with The Riches producer Fox Television Studios (FTVS) once again.

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Actor and comedian is here in Cannes promoting RHI Entertainment 's new adaptation of Treasure Island, in which he plays Long John Silver, told C21 the new FX show was coming up to pilot.

He said, "It's about someone who was deep inside politics and has got pushed out of the world for erroneous reasons and now arranges things - one of those fixers behind the scenes. It's a political operative who's off the grid. It's someone from West Wing who went feral."

Izzard is planning to move in politics and in the coming years as the UK Labour party has put plans, came up with the idea for the as-yet untitled series.

He is now working with Doug Jung - co-creator of TNT's original drama Dark Blue and writer of HBO's Big Love - on the pilot.

Izzard said, "Most new projects tend to come up with no actual actor or star attached, so you can never quite tell from the outside how that'll work. But as I'm already attached to this and I'm a creator on it with Doug Jung, I have high hopes. I do think it can work very well and I'm in a very good place to do some very good drama now".

The Riches, Izzard's first FX/FTVS drama in which he starred as an Irish traveller con artist, ran to two seasons and came to an end in 2008.

"I had a great experience working with them last time," he said, and of the latest collaboration: "It's gone through the first hurdles and I know the high commands in both companies, so hopefully we can just keep moving through."