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ITV Studios USA are working on a new project based on Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

The mini-series is being developed with Open TV and Film, Deadline reports.

Open's chairman Simon Shaps explained that the show will be based on a book by Richard Woolfe, who had access to Obama during the campaign.

Shaps added that the book, Renegade: The Making of a President, is a complex portrait of the President rather than a simple tribute.

"It is early days, but we are sure there will be no shortage of ideas for who plays the President," Shaps said. "The questions that have since emerged about what he's going to do with the presidency were, to some extent, already there during the campaign. We will get to the root of what Obama wants to do with America."

Shaps is hoping that the project will air within the next 12 to 18 months.

Digital Spy