Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins developing an untitled wrestling series with AMC

AMC has unveiled a 2014 upfront slate that features expanded unscripted offerings. One of them is an untitled wrestling series that will focus on Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan and his exploits as the creative director for Resistance Pro, an independent wrestling company based in Chicago.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the project is being produced by Left/Right, LLC (Small Town Security, This American Life, Mob Wives) with executive producers Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman, Billy Corgan and Ghen Maynard at the helm. "Smashing Pumpkins lead singer Billy Corgan pulls back the curtains on the pro-wrestling world as he takes over creative direction for the independent wrestling company Resistance Pro," THR reports.

In 2012, ProWrestling.com reported Corgan talking about the project. "We believe that wrestling is fascinating on many many levels -- socially, politically, even economically," Corgan said. "The struggles independent wrestlers go through to try to find work, those are real struggles that anybody can identify with. We want to show what goes on in a wrestling company behind the scenes... I've had like nine or ten meetings so far about it with different people. A lot of them wanted to know if this would be your typical manufactured reality show, and I told them that with a wrestling company, you don't have to manufacture reality. There's plenty of it to go around."

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