Avenatti vs. ‘Mooch’: Would you watch?

A television show featuring Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who is suing President Donald Trump on behalf of a pornographicfilm actress, and former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci was pitched to two cable networks in recent weeks, people briefed on the matter said Thursday.

Prominent television agent Jay Sures discussed with executives at CNN and MSNBC the concept of a program in which the two men would square off, according to three people. Both have become frequent cable network guests — Avenatti as one of Trump’s greatest antagonists, and Scaramucci as a loyalist to the president even after flaming out after less than two weeks at the White House.

Representatives for MSNBC and CNN declined to comment, as did Sures and Scaramucci.

“I have no interest in television right now,” said Avenatti, who has appeared on both CNN and MSNBC repeatedly in recent weeks, often several times a day.

It is not unusual for Hollywood agents to work informally with potential clients. Both Avenatti and Scaramucci attended a party thrown by Sures last month in Washington.

Meanwhile, Avenatti was hit with a lawsuit this week alleging he broke his promise to make a $2 million payment that was due Monday under the settlement of his firm’s bankruptcy. He agreed in December to pay $4.85 million to Jason Frank, a former lawyer at Avenatti’s Newport Beach law firm, but missed the first installment of $2 million, according to the suit filed Wednesday in state Superior Court in Los Angeles.

Avenatti called Frank’s lawsuit “frivolous and baseless.”