BEIJING, Oct. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Brad Pitt has teamed up with his lover Angelina Jolie for their first joint producing with an HBO series about aid workers according to media reports Monday. 
 

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    The as-yet-untitled drama will follow the lives of aid workers as they travel to hazardous areas and help the less fortunate, as well as the political challenges faced by international aid organizations.

    Based on the couple's own experiences working abroad and the harrowing stories they heard from others who risk their lives working for humanitarian organizations, Pitt and Jolie's project will likely come out of the Hollywood meat grinder as a conventional series.

    Pitt and Jolie will serve as executive producers on the project. Scott Burns, who cowrote "The Bourne Ultimatum" and was a producer of "An Inconvenient Truth," will also executive produce and write the pilot.

    This series will mark Jolie's return to HBO 10 years after her turn in the biopic "Gia," which earned her a Golden Globe.

    Pitt is also no stranger to HBO. He is in business with the station on another project with Edward Norton called "Undaunted Courage."  Based on the book by Stephen F. Ambrose, the series will chronicle the journey taken in the Western U.S. by Lewis and Clark in the early 1800s.

    Jolie and Pitt last teamed up on a film project for "A Mighty Heart," in which Jolie starred and Pitt produced. Jolie can be seen in the film version of "Beowulf," out later this year. She also has an announced five films slated already for 2008. Pitt has seven films announced for next year including "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "Burn After Reading," which is currently filming.

    Since 2001, Jolie has been a goodwill ambassador for the UN's refugee agency, travelling to "hot" zones to help people displaced by wars and natural disasters.

    The couple have also supported a number of international aid organizations through their Jolie-Pitt Foundation.

    (Agencies)