Starz Developing Coming Of Age Drama AIRBORNE

Gideon Yago

Starz announced today that it will develop a new original drama series from NEWSROOM writer Gideon Yago with Executive Producer Rob Tapert. AIRBORNE is a coming of age story set at the dawn of the Vietnam War. The series follows a young helicopter crew as they fight for survival, sanity, their souls, and each other in a country - and war - that are descending into chaos.

The new original series will be produced by Starz with Executive Producer Rob Tapert (SPARTACUS) and Producer Aaron Lam. AIRBORNE will be written by Gideon Yago, an Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist and former MTV News and CBS News writer and correspondent. Yago has written drama pilots for both ABC and AMC and was a staff writer on the first season of HBO's THE NEWSROOM. Yago is represented by CAA.