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Tim Robbins is headed back to HBO. Variety reports the star of The Brink has joined the network’s new TV show from True Blood creator Alan Ball.

The drama “focuses on a contemporary multi-racial family: a philosophy professor, his lawyer wife, their three adopted children from Somalia, Vietnam and Colombia, and their sole biological child.” The cast also includes Holly Hunter.

Robbins will play “the philosophy professor, Greg. He is questioning his life, his purpose, and the world in which he lives — a world in which it seems the bad guys have won — and his strained relationship with his wife Audrey (Hunter) adds to his overall anxiety.”

HBO has already ordered 10 episodes of the untitled series, which does not yet have a premiere date.

What do you think? Are you a fan of Tim Robbins? Will you watch the new HBO series?