EXCLUSIVE: Lee Daniels Promises Old Man, Very Young Woman in HBO Project Gilead

Among the bundle of projects with which Lee Daniels may follow Precious, only one has remained nameless since it was announced last March: "Untitled Lee Daniels/HBO Project (2011 TV Movie)," its profile currently reads. Not good enough for Movieline, which today sought at least a little elaboration to the Oscar-nominated producer-director's TV debut.

"TV's a medium I haven't experienced yet," Daniels explained during an interview promoting Prince of Broadway, a microbudget indie he's attached his name to in the spirit of Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry's embrace of Precious last year. (I'll have more on Prince ahead of next week's opening.) "I'm working with the writer Amy Bloom on something about a family -- and you know me and families. So I'm excited about it."

That much we've read -- the official logline making the rounds is, "Drama centers around a multi-generational, multi-racial family living in Philadelphia." But what makes this family HBO-worthy?

"Well," Daniels said, "it's a family in Philadelphia, and there's a man -- a very older man -- who's having an affair with a young, young, young, young woman."

Yowza! And its title? "Gilead."

And... scene. For the record this is not affiliated with the Marilynne Robinson novel of the same name, so update your IMDB profiles/Lee Daniels Project-Development Office Pool accordingly. More to come next week about Prince of Broadway and Daniels's other irons in the fire including Selma, The Butler and Miss Saigon.