The TV icon and his producing partner Brent Miller have optioned the rights to Boyle’s bestselling book Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. Boyle, who was once profiled on 60 Minutes, is a famous figure in Los Angeles for his work with gang members. Homeboy Industries, which started in the early 1990s, helps ex-gang members learn to live a normal life by removing their gang tattoos and training and finding them employment. The potential series is being eyed as a workplace half-hour dramedy. “Father Boyle has created an institution, a movement and ultimately a community of people, who in most cases — due to childhood trauma fell into a world that robbed them of their independence and understanding of their potential to exist and flourish without consequence,” Lear and Miller said in a joint statement. “He brought people together that were formerly divided. He entered into radical kinship with them regardless of their background – culturally, politically, or otherwise. And he made them laugh. It feels like the perfect formula for a new series as we say goodbye to 2020.”
TOPICS: Norman Lear, Untitled Father Boyle Series, Father Gregory Boyle, In Development