Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Captain Picard is heading back to Television.
Patrick Stewart, making his way out from his amazing run Broadway with Waiting for Godot and No Man’s Land, will be starting and co-producing Blunt Talk.
The show, from the mind of Seth MacFarlane and Jonathan Ames, will be airing on the STARZ channel.
The two-season, 20-episode order, is set to debut in 2015 and will center on Walter Blunt (Stewart).
Blunt is a British import, is intent on sharing his wisdom and guidance as to how Americans should live, think and behave. All this while he deals with his alcoholic manservant, who helps him focus with a dysfunctional news staff, countless ex-wives and children of various ages.
According to an official STARZ press release, the show will follow Blunt’s well-intentioned, but mostly misguided decision-making, both on and off the air.
A statement From Patrick Stewart reads:
“My career took an abrupt and radical left turn when Seth MacFarlane created CIA Deputy Director Avery Bullock on American Dad,” Stewart said. “This new character, Walter Blunt, is not at all like Avery, thank God, because this is live action and I am a Knight of the Realm. Blunt is, however, much smarter than Avery and has his own TV show, which has to be better than being Deputy Director of the CIA.”
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