FX Developing Series Based On ‘This American Life’ Segment “I Was A Teenage Smuggler” From ‘The Bear’s Joanna Calo & Carlos López Estrada
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deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: FX is developing a half-hour comedy series based on the 2021 This American Life segment “I Was a Teenage Smuggler.” The series will be penned by Joanna Calo, Carlos López Estrada and the story’s reporter Kevin Sieff.
They will serve also executive produce alongside Ira Glass and Alissa Shipp of This American Life. FX had no comment. The series will follow a group of Mexican teens who thanks to a loophole in U.S.
immigration law that prevents anyone under 18 from being prosecuted, are enlisted by cartels to smuggle migrants across the border.
The teens soon find themselves making unfathomable amounts of money and living the lives of their dreams but with an ever-ticking clock until they are legally considered adults.
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