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Snoop Dogg to Star in Family Sitcom

By | The Rolling Stone Blog – Fri, Sep 16, 2011 10:50 AM EDT

Snoop Dogg is working with
television veteran Ron Reo on a traditional family sitcom for Warner
Bros. TV. The rapper will play the patriarch of a family in the show,
which may be loosely based on his real life, which was portrayed in the
E! reality show Snoop Dogg's Father Hood. Snoop previously worked with Reo in a story arc on the Fox sitcom Brothers.

Photos: Nineties Polaroid Portraits
Snoop
Dogg has been aggressively pursuing acting gigs in recent months. In
addition to going after this sitcom project, the rapper has also been cast as the lead in The Legend of Fillmore Slim, a biopic based on the life of the blues guitarist and pimp.

 

Photo by Jason G. Bahr/Getty Images

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