A new TV project charting the rise of U.S. tabloid culture — which had Irvine Welsh and Bret Easton Ellis in talks to co-create the series when it was recently announced — has hit a legal hurdle.
American Tabloid was first unveiled in July by U.K. banner Burning Wheel Productions, which said it was a darkly satirical series that would follow a "rambunctious cavalcade of pranksters, con men and rapscallions — in other words, journalists — being brought together from across the globe to change not only the landscape but the power of the press forever from scandalous rumor to political puppetry." However, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Burning Wheel has been issued with a legal complaint over allegations that it doesn’t actually.
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