Showtime is developing a show about athletes using steroids
Everyone knows the old saying about something being “as American as baseball and apple pie.” In fact, the only thing more American than that—other than maybe apple pie with disgusting cheese on top—is cheating at baseball. And so Showtime has announced that it’s going to celebrate this rich, American tradition with Dope, a drama series about athletes using performance-enhancing drugs (not, as the name suggests, a gritty re-telling of The Seven Dwarves or some kind of marijuana reference). This news comes via Deadline, which reports that Ray Donovan’s David Hollander will handle the script, with Prometheus producer Michael Costigan doing what producers do.