HBO could be planning yet another assistant show

Gawker reports that HBO has optioned Sloane Crosley’s essay collection I Was Told There’d Be Cake for a possible TV show. Although the personal essays cover a range of topics, from moving to dating to My Little Ponies, word on the street is that the essay the network is most interested in is “The Ursula Cookie.” If you haven’t read it, the funny/sad story details Crosley’s miserable experiences working as an assistant in New York City, including making a cookie shaped like her boss (that’d be Ursula)’s head, only to quit on 9/11.