Mike White to Produce a New HBO Comedy from ‘Girls’ and ‘Klovn’ Writers

It’s been eight months since HBO canceled writer/director Mike White’s critically-acclaimed series Enlightened, but White is already getting back into business with the network. HBO is developing a new comedy series called Mr. Romance that White will executive produce, THR reports. The potential show will be co-written by Murray Miller (Girls, American Dad) and Casper Christensen (Klovn). Mr. Romance is based on Joshua Bearman’s 2010 McSweeney’s article, “The Only Muscle I Can’t Control: In Search of the Next Romance Novel Cover Man.” The original story is nonfiction covering the 14th annual Mr. Romance Cover Model Competition. There’s no word on the plot of Mr. Romance, which will be fictional. Hopefully, if the project does go to series, HBO treats it better than they did Enlightened.