Ending the week with a bang (so to speak)

HBO today released a list of upcoming projects (the bad news: no new "Flight of the Conchords" until 2009), but curiously enough, they neglected to include "Hung," about a guy with, um, a humongous phallus. (Go ahead, click on that link. It's not what you think. It may actually be worse, but at least it's SFW.)

Yes, seriously. April Fools was weeks ago. This is the first pickup at HBO since Sue Naegle replaced Carolyn Strauss as the head of programming.

"Hung," per Variety, "revolves around a well-endowed man who is plodding along in middle age as a struggling father and high school coach. The character was once a high school sports legend, and his luck returns when he figures out a way to use his best asset." At least it doesn't seem to have any psychiatrists.

This will come to us courtesy Colette Burson, who - again no joke - directed a film back in 2000 entitled "Coming Soon." According to Variety, it grossed all of $3,742.00. She also wrote an episode of "The Riches," and so her husband, "Riches" creator Dmitry Lipkin is also attached, as is director and Oscar-winning screenwriter Alexander Payne ("Sideways").

Lipkin called "Hung" "a comedy with a lot of heart." And a lot of something else, too, obviously.

I can't wait to see the reviews for this in family newspapers.

Feel free to direct all d!ck jokes to the comments section.