If you can't get enough of "Orange Is the New Black," a Netflix original comedy-drama series based on the memoir by Piper Kerman, good news: the show's creator, Jenji Kohan, is developing a Salem witch trial-themed drama for HBO, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Yet untitled, Kohan's (who also created the successful Showtime dark-comedy "Weeds") new period drama will explore the circumstances surrounding one of the darkest periods in American history, set amid a backdrop of mass hysteria, intolerance and religious and political repression.
For those unfamiliar, the witch trials across a number of colonial towns in Massachusetts, including Salem Village and Salem Town, were a series of hearings and prosecutions against people accused of witchcraft between the years 1692 and 1693. The trials have been popularized in a variety of media, including the 1952 play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller and subsequent film adaptation, and the 1928 novel "A Mirror for Witches" by Esther Forbes.
Kohan will write the script for the new latest HBO studio buy with Bruce Miller and Tracy Miller, and she and Bruce Miller will serve as executive producers while Tracy Miller will receive a credit for supervising producer.
