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Philip Seymour Hoffman Developing Drama Series at HBO

"Upstate" will center on a pink-slipped family man who takes a job at a prison.

Philip Seymour Hoffman is developing a drama series for HBO. Upstate, from the actor’s Cooper’s Town Productions and Entertainment One, centers on Roy Perkins, who gets laid-off and then relocates his family to rural America to take a job as a correctional officer in a new privately run for-profit prison.