Ted Danson Bored To Death With HBO

Ted Danson is staying on cable with a lead role in HBO’s comedy pilot Bored to Death says The Hollywood Reporter. The show stars Jason Schwartzman as a struggling Brooklyn writer with a drinking problem who pretends to be a private detective in the vein of his heroes from Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett novels. Danson will play Jonathan’s friend and quasi-mentor, a pompous but articulate magazine editor.