EXCLUSIVE:FXis developing a half-hour comedy series based on the 2021This American Lifesegment I Was a Teenage Smuggler.
The series will be penned byJoanna Calo, Carlos Lopez Estrada and the storys reporter Kevin Sieff.
They will serve also executive produce alongside Ira Glass and Alissa Shipp ofThis American Life.
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FX had no comment.
She is currently adapting the novelSuburban Hellfor Legendary.
Her other writing credits includeHacks, NetflixsThe Baby-Sitters Club, AmazonsUndoneandBoJack Horseman.
Estradas debut filmBlindspottingpremiered opening night at Sundance 2018 and was subsequently released by Lionsgate.
He was nominated by the DGA for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film.
His second film,Summertime, opened Sundance 2020 and was released theatrically the following year.
His documentary filmLil Nas X: Long Live Monteropremiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September.
He is currently writing and set to direct the reimagining of the Japanese animeYour Namefor Paramount and Bad Robot.
He served previously as the papers Mexico bureau chief, Africa bureau chief and Afghanistan bureau chief.
He started his career at theBrownsville Heraldin Texas.
Calo is repped at UTA, Mosaic, & McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
Estrada is repped at UTA, M88 & Ziffren Brittenham.This American Lifeand Sieff are repped by UTA.
