McAfee to get TV series post-2016 reveal

The newest entry into the 2016 presidential race is the subject of a six-part television series premiering next year.

{mosads}John McAfee is the subject of Spike TV’s “The McAfee Project” documentary airing in April, the channel said in a statement Wednesday. 

McAfee, an antivirus software pioneer, reportedly filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday for an Oval Office bid next year. 

Spike TV said on Wednesday that its upcoming documentary miniseries would focus on McAfee’s life before, during and after his entry into online security technology. 

It added that “The McAfee Project” is a working title with Emmy-winning director Billy Corben attached. 

Kyle Sandler, one of McAfee’s campaign directors, confirmed the technology visionary’s filing as authentic. 

The filing lists an Alabama address and notes that McAfee is “founding a new party yet to be announced” for his candidacy next year. 

“[I’m] still in a quandary about whether to run myself or find someone else for my party,” McAfee told Wired on Tuesday evening before his filing was announced. 

“It’s not something I would just choose to do on my own,” he added, noting that he had received “thousands” of emails from supporters encouraging him to run. 

McAfee added on Tuesday that the federal government is “illiterate” about modern technology and that he plans on fixing that issue should he win next year. 

McAfee’s 2016 filing on Tuesday raised eyebrows as the self-described “eccentric millionaire” was born in the United Kingdom.

Sandler said that evening McAfee is eligible for the Oval Office because he was born on a U.S. Army base  to an American serviceman.

He added that McAfee’s mother is of British descent and that the software inventor currently resides in Tennessee. 

McAfee founded his antivirus software in the late 1980s but is no longer affiliated with it. Intel purchased the company in 2010 for a reported $7.8 billion. 

The software guru sparked international headlines in 2012 by fleeing Belize for Guatemala following the suspicious murder of his neighbor. 

McAfee was described as a person of interest, rather than a suspect, in the incident.