Lee Daniels Pushing to Direct and Produce Family Drama at HBO

Best Director nominee Lee Daniels is looking to make the jump to the small screen -- and a proposed series at HBO about a multiracial, multi-generational family in Philadelphia may well give him the push he needs.

Award-winning author, Amy Bloom, who was a writer on Lifetime's 'State of Mind,' has been tapped to pen the pilot of the still untitled series which Daniels, whose film 'Precious' is nominated for six statues on Sunday, will Executive Produce and direct, should HBO place the order.Best Director nominee Lee Daniels is looking to make the jump to the small screen -- and a proposed series at HBO about a multiracial, multi-generational family in Philadelphia may well give him the push he needs.

Award-winning author, Amy Bloom, who was a writer on Lifetime's 'State of Mind,' has been tapped to pen the pilot of the still untitled series which Daniels, whose film 'Precious' is nominated for six statues on Sunday, will Executive Produce and direct, should HBO place the order.

The pairing of Daniels and Bloom was arranged by their agent at William Morris Endeavor, a move which Daniels thinks was inspired. As he told Variety, "I realized that she had the same sort of mind that I had. Her writing is very similar to my sensibility. She has created a world that is layered with complexities."

There's been no comment from HBO as to when the project will move beyond the initial stages of development.

The 82nd Academy Awards air Sunday at 8PM on ABC.