Yahoo News George Clooney working on Netflix Watergate TV series
Netflix is apparently working on a new TV series about Watergate.
And according to Entertainment Weekly, George Clooney will produce the show.
It adds that the current plan is to have eight episodes, thought Netflix isn't confirming or denying anything at the moment.
Matt Charman, who co-wrote Steven Spielberg's 2015 thriller Bridge of Spieswith the Coen Brothers, is lined up to write the series.
There's no word on whether or not Clooney will star in the show, as he often but not always does for TV and film projects that he produces.
The Watergate scandal refers to the break-in at the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate offices in Washington DC in 1972 and the ensuing cover-up when the five burglars were caught in the act.
The scandal (eventually) brought down then-US President Richard Nixon, who was heavily implicated.
The most famous retelling of the story is the 1976 film All the President's Men, based on the 1974 book of the same name by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the two journalists whose investigative reporting blew open the scandal.
Dustin Hoffman played Carl Bernstein and Robert Redford played Bob Woodward in the movie, which won four Oscars on the back of eight nominations.
It was announced last month that Clooney will also be coming back to TV two decades after his breakthrough role in medical drama ER.
Clooney is adapting author Joseph Heller's US army 1961 satire Catch-22 and will direct every episode and also star as conniving US army colonel Cathcart.
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