From The Wrestling Observer:

Norman Lear, an iconic television director dating back to “All in the Family,” will be doing a TV series on HBO about the territorial days of pro wrestling set in the 70s, tentatively called “Everybody Hurts.” It will be set around a family that runs pro wrestling in New York. I wonder who that could be. This is the first of what is expected to be copycat stuff greenlighted that wouldn’t have gotten far a few months ago due to the critical success of “The Wrestler.” Aaron Blitzstein, who worked in marketing in WCW and also formerly wrote for David Letterman and FX’s The Riches,, is the head writer. He’s drawing on his memories as a kid being a fan and going to matches in New York and Baltimore during the Bruno Sammartino, Superstar Graham and Bob Backlund era, with wrestlers performing on a circuit for so-so money and struggling with the economic issues of the day. Between Lear and HBO, this actually has a chance to be good.

Obviously you write what you know about, but we’d have looked to some of the southern territories where there was always some flat out crazy stuff going on. Still, knowing how HBO almost always does a first rate job with their original series we concur with Meltzer that this could be good…

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