‘Coffin Confessor’ TV Series in the Works at Fifth Season, Based on True Story of Man Paid to Crash Funerals and Reveal Secrets of the Dead (EXCLUSIVE)

The wild true story of an Australian man whose unique profession sees him hired by people to fulfil their final requests after they have died — a job that sometimes involves crashing their funerals to reveal deep secrets — is being adapted for TV.

Fifth Season has secured the right to the memoir “The Coffin Confessor” by Bill Edgar, billed as a “one-of-a-kind professional, a man on a mission to make good on these last requests on behalf of his soon-to-be-deceased clients.”

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Ted Gold and Khoby Rowe will serve as executive producers on the series, now in development.

In his line of work acting for the dead, Edgar has been tasked with delivering last words — sometimes words they were unable or unwilling to say, sometimes simply to tell whoever is delivering the eulogy to shut up. According to “The Coffin Confessor,” he’s helped an outlaw biker come out from beyond the grave, allowed a father to apologize to his estranged daughter and, in one case, destroyed a small-town grandfather’s sex dungeon before his kids could discover it.

First published in 2021 by Penguin Random House Publishing, the book also delves into the “extraordinary story” of how Edgar became the so-called Coffin Confessor. According to the description, he was the “son of one of Australia’s most notorious gangsters, homeless street-kid, maximum-security prisoner, hard man, family man, car thief, professional punching bag, philosopher, inventor, private investigator, victim of horrific childhood sexual abuse and an activist fighting to bring down the institutions that let it happen.”

Gold is CEO of Ted Gold Productions, an independent production company specializing in scripted television and film, with projects in development at Amazon, MGM, Sony, CBS, Jerry Bruckheimer Television, DiNovi Pictures, and Prologue Entertainment. Rowe is the founder of Keeper Studios, an independent production company focused on developing and producing character-driven television.