<p>Double Oscar winner Ang Lee is moving over to television after winning the Best Director Academy Award last month for "Life of Pi."</p>.<p>U.S. cable channel FX said on Thursday that the Taiwanese filmmaker will direct the pilot episode of its drama "Tyrant," about an unassuming American family drawn into the affairs of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation.</p>.<p>It is Lee's first venture into directing for television and his first project since 2012's "Life of Pi," the tale of a young Indian boy shipwrecked with a tiger that won four Oscars in February.</p>.<p>Production is due to start in the summer but no broadcast date or casting has been announced. Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff - the team behind Emmy-winning psychological thriller "Homeland" - are the executive producers.</p>.<p>"Ang Lee has demonstrated time and again an ability to present characters with such depth and specificity that they reveal the universal human condition," FX President John Landgraf said in a statement.</p>.<p>Lee, 58, is one of the more versatile directors in the industry, his work ranging from martial arts film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to British literary classic "Sense and Sensibility" and sci-fi action movie "Hulk."</p>.<p>He won his first Oscar in 2006 for directing the gay cowboy drama "Brokeback Mountain."</p>.<p>FX, and TV production company Fox 21, which is producing "Tyrant" along with FX Productions, are all units of News Corp.</p>
<p>Double Oscar winner Ang Lee is moving over to television after winning the Best Director Academy Award last month for "Life of Pi."</p>.<p>U.S. cable channel FX said on Thursday that the Taiwanese filmmaker will direct the pilot episode of its drama "Tyrant," about an unassuming American family drawn into the affairs of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation.</p>.<p>It is Lee's first venture into directing for television and his first project since 2012's "Life of Pi," the tale of a young Indian boy shipwrecked with a tiger that won four Oscars in February.</p>.<p>Production is due to start in the summer but no broadcast date or casting has been announced. Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff - the team behind Emmy-winning psychological thriller "Homeland" - are the executive producers.</p>.<p>"Ang Lee has demonstrated time and again an ability to present characters with such depth and specificity that they reveal the universal human condition," FX President John Landgraf said in a statement.</p>.<p>Lee, 58, is one of the more versatile directors in the industry, his work ranging from martial arts film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to British literary classic "Sense and Sensibility" and sci-fi action movie "Hulk."</p>.<p>He won his first Oscar in 2006 for directing the gay cowboy drama "Brokeback Mountain."</p>.<p>FX, and TV production company Fox 21, which is producing "Tyrant" along with FX Productions, are all units of News Corp.</p>