Jason Lee Lands Lead Role In TNT’s Delta Blues

Jason Lee has signed on to star in Delta Blues, a new pilot for TNT. Jason Lee, who starred for four seasons in the critically acclaimed comedy My Name Is Earl, has been cast in the lead role. He will play Dwight Hendricks, a Memphis police officer who lives with his mother and moonlights as an Elvis impersonator.

From George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures and Warner Horizon Television, Delta Blues will be directed by Clark Johnson (The Shield) from a script by Liz M. Garcia and actor Joshua Harto. Clooney, Heslov and Garcia serve as executive producers. Henry Bronchtein and Smokehouse’s Abby Wolf-Weiss are co-executive producers, and Harto is a producer. Johnson will also receive an executive-producer credit for the pilot.