Kate McKinnon Set to Star in Series Adaptation of Podcast 'Joe Exotic' | THR News - video Dailymotion

Universal Content Productions continues to turn to the podcast space for its next TV series.

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00:00Emmy winner Kate McKinnon is set to star in a new TV series based on the podcast Joe Exotic.

00:05Universal Content Productions continues to turn to the podcast space for its next TV series.

00:10The studio is teaming up with podcast publisher Wondery to adapt the podcast Joe Exotic for

00:15television and has tapped the Saturday Night Live actress to star. A network is not yet attached.

00:20Joe Exotic revolves around what happens when big cat enthusiast Carole Baskin, who will be played

00:24by McKinnon, learns that fellow exotic animal lover Joe Exotic is breeding and using his big cats

00:29for profit and she sets up to shut down his venture, inciting a quickly escalating rivalry.

00:35Baskin has a checkered past of her own and when the claws come out, Joe will stop at nothing

00:38to expose her hypocrisy. The results prove deadly. In addition to starring, McKinnon will also

00:43executive produce. A writer for the potential series has not yet been determined as the project

00:48is still in the early stages of development. This would be the fourth podcast Universal Content

00:52Productions has adapted for TV, joining Peacock's Dr. Death, Bravo-turned-USA Network's Dirty John

00:58and Amazon's Homecoming.

01:01Oh, I got rid of them. Just figured it was for the best. I couldn't get into it.

01:08This is McKinnon's second TV project outside of SNL. She's also attached to star as Elizabeth

01:13Holmes in Hulu's limited series, The Dropout. For more on this story, head to THR.com.

01:17Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.