After recently hearing of Jerry Seinfeld’s travails while hosting a show about marriage problems, the news that former Seinfeld writer Larry Charles is to develop a sitcom based around Steve Jobs and that ego of his is another worrying sign that the creators of the greatest sitcom ever may be on a horrible downward slide.

The real fella.

The Jobs sitcom began with a pilot entitled iCon which is soon to be aired in the US according to Media Rights Capital (who will service as financier and studio for the project), who say that Charles will oversee development of the script and will direct the half-hour pilot of a series written by Dan Lyons. A technology consultant for Newsweek, Lyons created the Fake Steve Jobs blog and wrote the novel Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs—A Parody.

The show’s lead character, Tom Rhodes, is a composite of Jobs and other Silicon Valley titans, and the comedy is described as a savage satire, a study of ego, power and greed.

Having had initial doubts, Charles promise of what to expect has me a little more interested, “We are attempting to do nothing less than a modern Citizen Kane,” Charles said. “A scabrous satire of Silicon Valley and its most famous citizen. We needed a bold environment to nurture such a vision. One that was free of pre-conceived ideas. And EPIX made it clear they were that place. They asked us to make their home our home. And we have.”

Corporate backslapping yes but a modern Citizen Kane full of black polo necks could be good fun. What do you reckon folks?