HBO's new Roach Show

Have no fear sports reality TV fans, HBO's next great series is in the works.

With the network's "Hard Knocks" series in doubt as the NFL lockout is still in affect and no team seems to want to sign up for the show, HBO announced that it will team up with "Friday Night Lights" director/exec producer Peter Berg for the "On Freddie Roach" reality series.

The show will follow boxing trainer Freddie Roach, who is fighting Parkinson's disease, as he works with young boxers, entertains celebrity visitors at his Wildcard Boxing Club in Hollywood and manages his new role with USA Boxing.

Roach and his star pupil Manny Pacquiao have been the subject of multiple editions of HBO's "24/7" along with the recent "Fight Camp 360" on Showtime while getting ready to fight Shane Mosley earlier this month.

"I am used to it," Roach told ESPN.com about having the cameras around him constantly. "Pretty much the same deal as '24/7' and 'Fight Camp' with cameras there at 5 a.m. and waking me up. They have the keys to my house to get in.

"It's going to be my life at home and mostly everything in the gym leading up to fights. It doesn't bother me having the cameras around. Sometimes it gets overwhelming and if it does, I tell them to go home."

HBO's cameras will follow Roach as he works with his fighters, including Pacquiao, junior welterweight titlist Amir Khan and middleweight Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

The six-episode series is set to debut in early 2012