Mark Wahlberg 'Teamsters' reality pilot coming to A&E

Is Boston the new New Jersey? Between "Southies" and this, we're thinking yes: Hometown hero Mark Wahlberg, star of "The Departed" and "The Fighter," has a new reality pilot in the works for A&E tentatively titled, "Teamsters," reports the network.

Wahlberg is executive producing the series along with Stephen Levinson ("Entourage," "In Treatment"), Kevin Harrison and Bill Thompson. The show features the Teamsters Local 25 in Boston.

According to A&E, the series "will give viewers a firsthand glimpse of the most legendary union in the most aggressive and territorial city in America: Boston. Here, the Teamsters Local 25 battle for the rights of their 11,000 members."

"We believe A&E is the perfect venue to create a cutting-edge show that promises to be like nothing else on television," Levinson says.

Thompson was inspired by seeing Wisconsin union members invade the statehouse last summer to protest anti-union legislation, reports Deadline Hollywood. And Wahlberg was apparently key in getting the local Teamsters for the show, as his dad was also a Teamster truck driver in Boston.

Deadline also reports that the series is envisioned as a franchise that would feature unions in different cities.

In fact, we know of another franchise for which Boston would be the perfect backdrop (warning: This video contains some, uh, authentic language and may be NSFW):