On Thursday, Showtime ordered 12 episodes of ‘House of Lies,’ a half-hour comedy starring Don Cheadle as a “self-loathing,” cutthroat management consultant and Bell as one of Cheadle’s razor-sharp employees.
‘House of Lies’ was created by Matthew Carnahan (‘Dirt’), and it’s based on a tell-all book by Martin Kihn titled ‘House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Tell You the Time.’ Ben Schwartz (‘Parks and Recreation,’ ‘Undercovers’), Josh Lawson, Dawn Oliveri, Glynn Turman (a favorite from ‘In Treatment’) and Donis Leonard, Jr., round out the cast.
The network also ordered the hourlong psychological thriller ‘Homeland,’ which stars Claire Daines as a CIA officer “battling her own demons” and Damian Lewis as a soldier who may be connected to an Al Quaeda plot.