Sony Pictures Television has acquired the rights to the book Master of Ceremonies: A True Story of Love, Murder, Roller Skates & Chippendales by David Henry Sterry. Gordon Smith (Breaking Bad) will write the serial adaptation and will also serve as showrunner.
The story revolves around Sterry's time as MC in a world-famous male strip club. It shows the Americas in the eighties through the eyes of the most popular show of Manhattan; Chippendales, where the women are in charge and men are rich, famous or notorious.
Gordon Smith