Black Producers, HBO Defend Upcoming Series 'Confederate'

It may be the most explosive response ever to a TV show that hasn't shot a frame, doesn't have a script, or even a plot written yet.

All we know is HBO's Confederate will be a TV show set in a modern America where the Confederacy never lost the Civil War and slavery still exists. After days at the center of the controversy, Executive Producer Nichelle Tramble Spellman says the experience has been like getting "a crash course in crazy."

That painful education began last week, as the next series under development by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the two executive producers of the cable channel's hit series .