'True Blood' Air Alan Ball Developing Cinemax Medical Drama (Exclusive)

Alan Ball Alan Ball is switching genres. The Real Bloodstream showrunner is developing Wichita, an hourlong drama in regards to a Kansas surgeon who unintentionally becomes the focus of the contemporary political, cultural and ethical war. Ball is placed to executive produce the Cinemax project with author Devin Friedman, the writer behind this years GQ article "Messiah versus. Messiah" concerning the late Dr. George Tiller, a Wichita, Kansas, physician who had been among the couple of doctors who provided late-term abortions. Tiller, who had been the medical director from the Women's Healthcare Services facility, made it an murder attempt in 1993 and was shot within the eye and wiped out by anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder last year. Roeder was charged of murder this past year. STORY: 'True Bloodstream': Alan Ball Ink New Deal, Talks Season 5 Ball would executive produce the hourlong project alongside Jimmy Burns with Friedman penning the project and becoming co-executive producer. Wichita marks Ball's third project using the premium cable network behind True Bloodstream. Younger crowd is placed to executive produce Cinemax brother or sister Cinemax's Banshee, a project occur Pennsylvania's Amish country which is all about an ex-disadvantage and fighting techinques expert who poses because the small town's killed sheriff because he makes sure their own make of justice and uses the positioning for everyone their own interest. Ball inked a multiyear cope with Cinemax in This summer and told The Hollywood Reporter in the Television Experts' Association's summer time press tour he were built with a "couple aircraft pilots" in development. Additionally towards the trio of TV projects, Ball also signed onto direct a dark comedy pitch setup at Vital. He's repped by UTA and Blossom Hergott Diemer. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com Twitter: @Snoodit Alan Ball Cinemax TV Development