In a deal between PBS's Tavis Smiley and Warner Bros. Television Group, production will start on a scripted television series about the final days of superstar entertainer Michael Jackson.

According to Deadline, the deal is to adapt Smiley's book titled "Before You Judge Me: The Triumph and Tragedy of Michael Jackson's Last Days."

The book and TV series is an intimate account of the final 16 weeks of the superstar's life. Although Jackson had an extraordinary career that spanned four previous decades before his death, the show itself will only be about his life before he died in 2009.

The book, and presumably the TV show, is basically about the final two months of his life leading up to his death. That includes his sheltered existence due to his immense popularity. The star was hardly able to lead a normal life because he was so highly chronicled by magazines, news and other various media. He was on the search for privacy before he died and the book really exposes what that was like for the iconic singer/songwriter.

What is also especially unique to the book is that Smiley was able to really uncover the most basic concepts of Jackson's motivations at the time. He spoke about things like the pressure and how it caused Jackson to become "socially fragile" and unable to function as a normal human being due to it.

Although Deadline did not specify, the TV series is expected to take on the same elements of the book and give viewers a glimpse into Jackson's life, almost like he was a prisoner of his fame.

The book itself is set to be published next summer in June 2016 and there has been no word yet as to when the TV series will go into production or air on its prospective TV network.