June 29 (UPI) -- HBO has ordered a comedy pilot about a televangelist family starring John Goodman and Danny McBride and titled The Righteous Gemstones.
The Righteous Gemstones will follow Goodman as Eli, the patriarch of the Gemstone family, whose time as a world-famous Christian minister with a weekly television program is fading. McBride will portray Eli's eldest son, who is modernizing his father's empire.