Jason Schwartzman is coming back to television.

The film star, who was once the lead in a short-lived Fox show “Cracking Up,” has signed on for HBO’s new comedy, “Bored to Death.”

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Schwartzman will play “a struggling thirty something writer with a drinking problem in Brooklyn who, following a painful breakup with his girlfriend, decides to emulate his heroes from the novels of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. He takes out an ad pretending to be a private detective and starts taking cases — solving some and making others worse.”

Production will begin in September. Until then, Schwartzman is busy filming “The Fantastic Mr. Fox,” directed by Wes Anderson.






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