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"Chris O&amp;#039;Dowd is to star in a new comedy for HBO. The Irish star&amp;#039;s project for the US cable network - developed with This Is Spinal Tap&amp;#039;s Christopher Guest - has been ordered to series, Entertainment Weekly reports.  Family Tree - a mockumentary like much of Guest&amp;#039;s past work - will focus on a man (O&amp;#039;Dowd) who is searching for his long-lost relatives and stumbles across a string of unusual characters and stories. Guest will executive produce the series with Jim Piddock (The Five-Year Engagement), with both men also expected to appear in the show. IT Crowd actor O&amp;#039;Dowd is best known to US audiences for his role in film comedy Bridesmaids and will next be seen in Sky1 comedy Moone Boy. Guest&amp;#039;s last project was an unaired US remake of BBC comedy The Thick of It in 2007, while his most recent film was 2006&amp;#039;s For Your Consideration. Family Tree will air on HBO in the US and on BBC Two in the UK, as part of a co-production deal. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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