Ted Danson will follow up his bravura turn on the terrific "Damages" - he's set to appear in at least three episodes of the show next season - with a new sitcom for HBO.
The Emmy Nominee will join Jason Schwartzmann for the Jonathan Ames-penned "Bored to Death", which features the "Shopgirl" star as a struggling Brooklyn writer with a drinking problem who pretends to be a private detective in the vein of his heroes from Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett novels. Danson will play Jonathan's friend and quasi-mentor, a pompous but articulate magazine editor.
Could either be the next "Becker".... Or the next "Ink"... but that fact that it's on HBO bodes well for it.
