Russo has said that much of the material in “Straight Man” about how a college English department functions – or doesn’t – came from his time teaching at Southern Illinois University and Southern Connecticut State University. AMC had announced last April that the series was being developed and that Odenkirk would star. The show will run for at least eight episodes, AMC said in announcing the premiere date. Like the 1997 novel, the series is set at a small college in a hardscrabble Pennsylvania town and focuses on the comic/tragic life of an English professor, William Henry Devereaux Jr., going through a midlife crisis. The show also stars Mireille Enos, Aaron Zelman and Paul Lieberstein.
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