Amid the sea of sit-coms, forensic police procedurals and reality television, The Hard Corps represents a groundbreaking new concept for a television series.
The Hard Corps will examine the international media, aid-workers, the United Nations and the policy-makers – as a dark comedy with a dash of reality thrown in.
The Hard Corps is a post-modern M*A*S*H -- as if elements of M*A*S*H were actually shot in Korea of the 1950’s, and Hawkeye and Trapper’s comedic banter was grounded in current events.
Virtually no one since M*A*S*H has tapped into the vein of absurdity to truly capture what it’s like to work in the developing world – where aid-workers and journalists develop dark humor like antibodies to combat the tragedy, poverty and mayhem around them.
Previous efforts by television to tackle the aid and journalism worlds have been both too James Bond and too noble - most recently, “The Philanthropist” - clearly a manifestation of the view-from-LA.
