Piers Morgan to produce Starz drama about tabloid journalism

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Starz is developing period drama, "Fleet Street," about tabloid journalism with Piers Morgan -- former editor of tabloids The Sun, News of the World and Daily Mirror -- attached to executive produce, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The series is set in 1970s England during the rise of tabloid journalism, "an industry where every single opponent worked in the same street, competing with each other by day -- drinking, brawling, fornicating, night clubbing and cocaine-snorting with each other by night," Morgan wrote in a statement.

BAFTA-winning screenwriter Danny Brocklehurst (U.K.'s "Shameless") will pen the pilot and executive produce. Starz will work on the series with Lionsgate Televsion in conjunction with Richard Branson's Virgin Produced and Octagon Entertainment.