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Twitterer Lands CBS TV Deal

CBS has picked up a comedy project based on the Twitter account "Shit My Dad Says," which has attracted over 700,000 followers since launching in August. "Will & Grace" creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick are set to executive produce and supervise the writing for the "multicamera" family comedy, which author Justin Halpern will co-pen with Patrick Schumacker. Halpern and Schumacker will also co-exec produce the Warner Bros. TV-produced project. After moving back in with his parents in San Diego, Halpern, 28, launched the Twitter account to document his 73-year-old father's priceless rants and remarks such as, "Sometimes life leaves a hundred-dollar bill on your dresser, and you don't realize until later that it's because it fucked you."

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