Billy Porter developing African-American showbiz family dynasty drama Fruits of Thy Labor for Peacock

The Hollywood Reporter

The Pose Emmy winner is teaming with super-producer Greg Berlanti on a family drama that follows three generations of an African-American showbiz dynasty navigating their way through life, love, politics and career. Porter is co-writing Fruits of Thy Labor with Dan McCabe. The Peacock series marks a reunion for Porter and Berlanti 21 years after Porter starred in Berlanti's 2000 groundbreaking film The Broken Hearts Club, a romantic comedy about a group of a gay friends in West Hollywood. “It crosses all genres,” Porter told The Hollywood Reporter of Fruits of Thy Labor. “While the matriarch and patriarch are sort of based on like Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, and then they have children, and then they have grandchildren. That kind of family and then there’s a character that’s based on me, of course, though I’m not playing the character.”