Roger Ailes Miniseries in the Works

Director Tom McCarthy—whose film Spotlight, about a crew of tenacious journalists breaking open a landmark abuse story, took Best Picture last winter—has signed on to executive produce a miniseries about Roger Ailes.  

Ailes resigned from Fox News July 21 under pressure from a sexual harassment lawsuit.

The project was announced at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco. The summit convenes bigwigs of technology, politics, business, media and the arts. 

Producing the series will be horror film maven Jason Blum, whose film credits include Paranormal Activity and The Purge, and who also worked on HBO’s documentary The Jinx.

Journalist Gabriel Sherman, who wrote a book about Ailes called The Loudest Voice in the Room and broke numerous stories for New York Magazine related to Ailes’ misconduct, will produce the project as well.

No network has yet emerged as a partner for the series.

Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.