HBO Developing Female Orgasm Comedy

http://www.deadline.com/2010/06/46405/

HBO is developing a comedy about a young woman’s quest to achieve the female orgasm. No, this is not a Sex and the City spinoff about Samantha’s twenties. The pay cable network has optioned the non-fiction book Thanks For Coming: A Young Woman's Quest For An Orgasm, with Grumpy Old Men scribe Mark Steven Johnson on board to adapt and Pretty In Pink helmer Howard Deutch attached to direct.

Thanks For Coming, which was published by HarperCollins last year, was written by Mara Altman, who will serve as a consultant on the HBO project, also tentatively titled Thanks For Coming.

In the book, Altman, a former staff writer for The Village Voice, chronicles her experiences of a twenty-six-year-old, attractive, successful, single woman in New York who'd never had an orgasm and sets out on a journey to achieve it. Johnson recently directed the romantic comedy When In Rome.