C4 and Sky Italia board Hulu’s George Clooney-produced ‘Catch-22’

European broadcasters to co-fund George Clooney-produced adaptation of Joseph Heller classic.Channel 4 and Sky Italia have boarded as co-producers on George Clooney’s six-part adaptation of Catch-22 for Hulu.The series, starring Clooney alongside Hugh Laurie, Christopher Abbott and Kyle Chandler, will air next year on C4 in the UK and Sky Atlantic in Italy.Based on Joseph Heller’s satirical novel, first published in 1961 and previously adapted as a 1970 movie directed by Mike Nichols, the blackly comic drama follows the story of Captain John Yossarian, a Us air force soldier in World War II driven mad by

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