The Coen brothers have signed on to executive produce HarveKarbo, a potential series they co-created with Phil Johnston (Cedar Rapids). THR describes the premise: "[HarveKarbo] revolves around a touchy Los Angeles private investigator -- and his deadbeat friends in El Segundo -- whose cases frequently force him to cross paths with a who’s who of Hollywood." Imagine TV is shepherding the project through development with 20th Century Fox Television; Imagine head Brian Grazer is the man credited enticing the endlessly lauded brothers to a smaller screen.
While the last few years have seen respected filmmakers like Frank Darabont (The Walking Dead) and Diablo Cody (The United States of Tara) dive head on into a TV schedule, the Coens likely have no interest in keeping up with the daily demand of a broadcast series. Instead, expect the J.J. Abrams model: get the show off the ground, then hand the reins to a collaborator---in this case, Johnston. Even such speculation is getting ahead of ourselves. Fox has awarded the hourlong single-camera comedy a script commitment, but HarveKarbo has a long road through the competitive pilot season before any potential series order. That said, it would be pretty cool to see "Executive Produced by Joel and Ethan Cohen" in a credits sequence every week.