HBO will attempt to grab the comedy world by the balls when its new series Hung premieres in late June.

The show, starring Thomas Jane as a down-on-his-luck (but well-endowed) high school basketball coach who decides to “exploit his best asset” to make himself a better life, will debut Sunday, June 28. The premiere, directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election), runs 45 minutes; subsequent episodes will be a half-hour.

Jane (The Sweetest Thing, 61*) plays Ray Drecker, a former star athlete at a Detroit high school who’s now the coach of its sad-sack basketball team and whose personal life isn’t any better. His wife (Anne Heche, Men in Trees) has left him for her dermatologist (Eddie Jemison, Ocean’s Thirteen), his house has just burned down and his kids (Sianoa Smit-McPhee and Charlie Saxton) are going to live with mom.

After attending a self-help seminar that urges him to find a “winning tool,” Ray has an epiphany and decides to start using his own tool as a way to change his fortunes. He gets help in that arena from Tanya (Jane Adams, Little Children), who also attended the seminar and goes into business with him.

Dmitry Lipkin (The Riches) and Colette Burson created Hung and are executive producing with Payne, Michael Rosenberg, John Morayniss and Noreen Halpern.

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