Scenes From An Italian Restaurant is being referred to as an “arc-thology”…

Billy Joel’s back catalogue is about to get another curious life in the form of a new TV show. MGM and Universal Music have teamed up to help develop the proposed series, which is being described as an ‘arc-thology’ (via THR).

Called Scenes From an Italian Restaurant – which is apparently Joel’s favourite song from his extensive career – the series will set out to base each episode “on lyrics of his hits and populated by characters from his songs, including the Stranger, the Piano Man, Mamma Leone and Sgt. O’Leary. The tracks will be re-imagined and rearranged by Joel’s music team — with his input — and take his tunes in new directions.”

Kevin Fox (Law & Order: SVU) is creating Scenes From an Italian Restaurant, the site notes.

“Billy Joel is a beautiful storyteller, and it just so happens that his stories are accompanied alongside remarkable songs,” MGM TV president of development and production Steve Stark said in a statement. “This series is going to focus less on Billy’s life and more on the stories inside his catalogue of classic songs.”

More on this intriguing-sounding project as we get it.