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TV To Tap Anger At Financial Crisis
- Bloomberg, Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:15 AM
Hollywood has found its next bad guy: Wall Street. Film and television studios are rushing to tap America's fixation with the financial crisis and anger at the Wall Street executives blamed
for it.
NBC's "Law & Order" is building episodes around financial themes and the network is developing a one-hour series called "Outrageous Behavior," a battle of the sexes set in
Wall Street. 20th Century Fox has started work on a sequel to "Wall Street," with the Gordon Gekko character.
"Our development is tied to what is relevant in today's world," says Teri Weinberg, NBC executive. "We hope to exemplify the foolishness of the human condition in the world of finance."
