Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are teaming up for the little screen - with confirmation now in that the pair will be produce a new TV series based on the lives of aid workers.

The couple have signed on with U.S. TV network HBO for the new small screen project which will take a deeper look at the internal policy of international aid organisations and report on the day-to-day lives of its workers and the people they struggle to help. 

The series– which is yet-to-be-titled - is being written by The Bourne Ultimatum co-writer Scott Burns, who also produced An Inconvenient Truth.

Jolie and Pitt are set produce alongside Burns with a debut date yet-to-be-annoucned.