Egotistical game show host J. J. Curtis (Peter O'Toole) responds to the news that he has cancer by hiring novelist Jonathan Stitch (Adrian Lester) to write a worshipful biography of him. While doing research into his subject's life, though, Stitch discovers shocking and unsavory details about his past. Meanwhile, Curtis is engaged in a vicious war with Dave Turner (Aidan Gillen), a rival host and
