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It looks like Jason Schwartzman isn't going to be the only one on HBO with problems. HBO has just announced that it is developing an hour-long drama titled Manic for the fall season. Based on Terri Cheney bestseller, Manic, A Memoir, the series focuses on a successful female attorney secretly struggling with bipolar disorder.

Both the book and the series tell the story of Cheney's own life as a lawyer who kept her illness a secret form her boss as she dealt with her demons and tried to keep her career on track. While no details regarding casting have been announced, Cheney is set to serve as consulting producer. Janet Tamaro (Bones, Sleeper Cell) is set to create the pilot and executive produce.

Although Manic and Schwartzman's Bored to Death seem like steps in the right direction for HBO, I'm still a little wary. I only have to look back to a year ago when I was super-excited about a little show called John From Cincinnati that I thought would surely help soothe the pain left by a Six Feet Under and Sopranos-free network to remember how badly HBO has hurt me in the past. With that said, I'm nothing if not an optimist and HBO's new lineup may just get me to subscribe again--for a little while at least.