Fake Steve Jobs to Write Online TV Series

'iCON' to be a satirical take on Silicon Valley life
By Jane Yager,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 17, 2010 9:37 AM CDT
Fake Steve Jobs to Write Online TV Series
In this 2007 photo provided by Forbes, Forbes Senior Editor Daniel Lyons, aka the blogger Fake Steve Jobs, is shown.   (AP Photo/Forbes, Glen Davis)

Fake Steve Jobs is heading to TV: Online television and film network EPIX has tapped Dan Lyons, creator of the blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, to create a Silicon Valley comedy series with Seinfeld writer Larry Charles. The half-hour show, which will air on the cable channel and the streaming video site, will be called iCON; Charles tells Mashable it will be "nothing less than a modern Citizen Kane." (More Fake Steve Jobs stories.)

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