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Beloved '80s rocker Huey Lewis has signed on to to star in and executive produce a half-hour mockumentary-style sitcom titled Whatever Happened to Huey Lewis.
The series will have Lewis playing a fictionalized version of himself and is being described as a behind-the-scenes, Curb Your Enthusiasm-style look at a rock and roll legend trying to cope to a new life after losing his hearing.
The show will be shot using a single-camera style and is currently in development at Fox, with writer Kirker Butler (Only Murders In the Building) and Jimmy Kimmel‘s Kimmelot studio set to produce.
Lewis revealed back in 2018 that he was diagnosed with Ménière's disease, an inner ear disorder that produces feelings of vertigo, tinnitus and hearing loss.
“Although I can still hear a little, one on one, and on the phone, I can’t hear music well enough to sing,” he wrote on Twitter. “The lower frequencies distort violently, making it impossible to find pitch.”
As the frontman for Huey Lewis & The News, Lewis sold over 30 million albums thanks to hits like “The Heart of Rock & Roll,” "If This Is It," "Hip To Be Square," “I Want a New Drug” and "The Power of Love,” which earned them an Oscar nomination for its inclusion in Back To The Future.
Most recently, Lewis was involved with the jukebox musical The Heart of Rock and Roll, which had a run on Broadway earlier this year.