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Rivers Cuomo’s Harvard years inspire a TV show

Rivers Cuomo performs with Weezer at the Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Del., on Sunday, June 22. AP Photo/The Wilmington News-Journal, Kyle Grantham

Steve Franks, creator of the show “Psych,” is making a TV series inspired by Rivers Cuomo’s experience at Harvard, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The comedy, which has been picked up for a pilot by Fox, will follow a guy in his 30s who takes a hiatus from his rock-star life to find out what he’s been missing, much like Cuomo did when he took a break from his band Weezer to get his degree at the Cambridge institution. Cuomo, who graduated from Harvard in 2006, will serve as an executive producer.