Netflix is developing an eight-part limited series about the Watergate scandal from executive producer George Clooney, TheWrap has learned.
Matt Charman, who co-wrote the Oscar-nominated “Bridge of Spies” with Joel and Ethan Coen, will serve as the series writer, with Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures and Sonar Entertainment producing.
The Watergate scandal centered around a 1972 break in at the Democratic National Committee offices, located at the Watergate building in Washington D.C. The ensuing investigation implicated several high-ranking member’s of President Richard Nixon’s administration, culminating in Nixon’s resignation in 1974.
This mark’s Clooney and Smokehouse’s second limited series announced in as many months.