Coming Soon: Steve Jobs, the Sitcom

Coming Soon: Steve Jobs, the Sitcom

Fake Steve creator Dan Lyons just signed a deal to bring Steve Jobs to another small screen near you.

The half-hour series called “iCon” is billed by the presser as “a savage satire centering on a fictional Silicon Valley CEO whose ego is a study in power and greed.”

Making sure the barbs prick will be the job of Larry Charles, director of “Borat” and  “Religulous.” The single-camera show to be aired on cable channel Epix may borrow something in style from his work as writer and producer of “Seinfeld” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

Charles said, “We are attempting to do nothing less than a modern ‘Citizen Kane.’ A scabrous satire of Silicon Valley and its most famous citizen.”

No word yet on air dates or iTunes availablilty.

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Will you tune in or not?

Via Alltop, NYT

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  • http://www.daedana.co.uk/ daedana

    Just one of those things that will make you laugh. Seems like a crazy idea, but don’t know how the iCon will do.

    Great stuff to know though :D

  • Don Pope

    Epix? I’ve never even heard of that channel.
    I might have to wait until it comes out on the net.

  • http://www.markcrummett.com Mark Crummett

    iCan hear the Apple lawyers sharpening their knives already.

  • http://www.toxicspark.com Andrew Macdonald

    I’ll definitely be watching it.

  • Optical

    Get Noah Wyle to lead and I’ll watch it until the C&D arrives.

  • Mezzrow

    Explains why FSJ has really gone downhill lately–he goes days and days between posts, and they’re just lazy compared to what they were like when he started posting (brilliantly) again last year. Clearly he’s bored with it and his attention is now elsewhere. I guess nothing lasts, does it?