{"id":41138,"date":"2014-03-14T08:17:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T12:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41138"},"modified":"2014-03-14T08:20:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T12:20:02","slug":"showtime-to-air-pilot-about-hedge-fund-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2014\/showtime-to-air-pilot-about-hedge-fund-billionaires.html","title":{"rendered":"Showtime To Air Pilot About Hedge Fund Billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/nyt-newsroom-chatter-andrew-ross-sorkin-in-running-to-become-ceo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-41147\" alt=\"nyt-newsroom-chatter-andrew-ross-sorkin-in-running-to-become-ceo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/nyt-newsroom-chatter-andrew-ross-sorkin-in-running-to-become-ceo1.jpg\" width=\"201\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Showtime has picked up a drama pilot written by\u00a0CNBC co-anchor\u00a0Andrew Ross Sorkin and \u201cOcean&#8217;s Thirteen\u201d writers\u00a0Brian Koppelman\u00a0and\u00a0David Levien.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Billions\u00a0<\/em>is a fictional drama that\u00a0focuses on the collision and, at times, collusion between an aggressive U.S. attorney in New York and some of the richest hedge fund billionaires in the country.&#8221; The Hollywood Reporter says.<\/p>\n<p>Koppelman took to Twitter to express his excitement and was soon joined by Sorkin:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screenshot-2014-03-14-12.11.09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41141\" alt=\"Screenshot 2014-03-14 12.11.09\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screenshot-2014-03-14-12.11.09.jpg\" width=\"642\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screenshot-2014-03-14-12.11.09.jpg 642w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screenshot-2014-03-14-12.11.09-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Billions\u00a0<\/em>marks the latest Wall Street-themed project in the works following the success of\u00a0Leonardo\u00a0DiCaprio-starrer\u00a0<em>The Wolf of Wall Street<\/em>. CBS is prepping an\u00a0untitled Wall Street drama\u00a0written by\u00a0<em>Justified&#8217;<\/em>s<em>\u00a0<\/em>Taylor Elmore,\u00a0while Fox Television Studios is adapting\u00a0Kevin\u00a0Roose&#8217;s best-seller\u00a0<em>Young Money\u00a0<\/em>as a potential drama series, though no network is attached.&#8221;HollyWood reporter says.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for\u00a0<a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a>\u00a0is a premier\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">hedge fund database<\/a>\u00a0and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a>\u00a0is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Showtime has picked up a drama pilot written by\u00a0CNBC co-anchor\u00a0Andrew Ross Sorkin and \u201cOcean&#8217;s Thirteen\u201d writers\u00a0Brian Koppelman\u00a0and\u00a0David Levien. &#8220;Billions\u00a0is a fictional drama that\u00a0focuses on the collision and, at times, collusion between an aggressive U.S. attorney in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16005,16025,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developing-stories","category-events","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41149,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41138\/revisions\/41149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}