{"id":860537,"date":"2026-09-25T20:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/860537\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T20:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:04:12","slug":"report-netflix-developing-comedy-show-inspired-by-alleged-penn-state-fraternity-drug-trafficking-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/860537\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Netflix Developing Comedy Show Inspired By Alleged Penn State Fraternity Drug Trafficking Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Netflix is developing a fictional comedy series based on the recent alleged drug trafficking ring that took place in multiple Penn State fraternities, according to Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Former Northwestern basketball player Charlie Hall is expected to star in the unnamed project and Alec Berg will serve as executive producer and supervising writer, according to the entertainment news site. <\/p>\n

Since his Big Ten Basketball career ended, Hall has made multiple television appearances, including \u201cBel-Air,\u201d \u201cVeep,\u201d and \u201cSingle Drunk Female.\u201d<\/p>\n

Berg is best known for writing the final four seasons of the famous sitcom \u201cSeinfeld,\u201d but was also a writer on \u201cThe Cat in the Hat\u201d and was the executive producer on \u201cSilicon Valley.\u201d<\/p>\n

Berg has 24 Emmy nominations over his career.<\/p>\n

Berg\u2019s representatives did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.<\/p>\n

The comedy series will be loosely based on the 13 current and former Penn State students who were charged on August 17<\/a>\u00a0in connection with an alleged drug trafficking ring that ran primarily out of the off-campus houses of Sigma Chi and Delta Upsilon.<\/p>\n

The two fraternities did not reply to a request for comment by the time of publication. <\/p>\n

The alleged trafficking operation took place between 2023 and 2024. Attorney General Dave Sunday said the operation was a coordinated effort to traffic large amounts of cocaine brought from Philadelphia and New York.<\/p>\n

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Collin is a fourth-year majoring in digital\/print journalism. He lives in Basking Ridge, New Jersey and enjoys TAYLOR HAM, egg, and cheese. As a New York Giants and Chelsea FC fan you can normally find him yelling at his TV screen on the weekends. Please follow him on X(formerly Twitter) @wardcollinz for Penn State football stuff. You can email him at [email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix is developing a fictional comedy series based on the recent alleged drug trafficking ring that took place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[157005,31686,157007,363185,363186,88,363187,363188,217,363189,363190,8392,363191,363192,363193,363194,363195,363196,363197,107388,363198,92],"class_list":["post-860537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-alec-berg","tag-big-ten-basketball","tag-charlie-hall","tag-dave-sunday","tag-delta-upsilon","tag-entertainment","tag-fraternity-cocaine-ring","tag-fraternity-drug-trafficking","tag-netflix","tag-netflix-comedy-series","tag-northwestern-basketball","tag-penn-state","tag-penn-state-cocaine-ring","tag-penn-state-delta-upsilon","tag-penn-state-drug-trafficking","tag-penn-state-fraternities","tag-penn-state-fraternity-drug-ring","tag-penn-state-sigma-chi","tag-pennsylvania-attorney-general","tag-seinfeld","tag-sigma-chi","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}