Showtime is developing Slamdance Film Festival winner Punching the Clown for the small screen.The comedy, from writer-director Gregori Viens, had focused on comic singer-songwriter Henry Phillips, whose dumb-luck rise to Hollywood fame and fortune quickly goes bust. In the TV iteration, Phillips will now be living with his struggling actor brother and dealing with various romantic entanglements.

Viens, Phillips and Arrested Development's Chuck Martin will serve as writers and executive producers on the project, with comedienne Sarah Silverman and David Permut (Face/Off, Farce of the Penguins) attached as EPs. [Read More]