Alexander Payne developing Showtime series that sounds a bit like What About Bob?
According to Deadline, Alexander Payne is developing a series for Showtime based on a Dutch show called Holland’s Hoop. Payne’s U.S. version will be called Kilroy County, and it will concern a forensic psychologist who works with “criminally insane” patients at a “high security facility near Chicago.” When his father dies, he returns to his family’s farm in hopes of getting a chance to “confront issues in his marriage and with his own children,” all without realizing that a “dangerous but extremely charming psychopath” he used to treat has followed him there. The original version had a twist involving the farm being part of a marijuana empire, but it’s unclear if the Showtime version will retain that.