Actor Kevin Bacon will serve as executive producer for Showtime’s latest project, “The Booths,” a series about the Booth brothers, including John Wilkes, the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, Daily Variety reports. The project is still in early development; no writer has been signed, nor has an outside production company joined. The series is Showtime’s latest entry into period pieces, following its successful show “The Tudors,” the trade paper says.
—Sergio Ibarra