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HBO Orders New Comedy Series Starring Steve Carell
May 20, 2024
HBO has given a 10-episode, straight-to-series order for a new half-hour comedy starring and executive produced by 11-time Emmy Award nominee Steve Carell.
The single-camera comedy is set on a college campus, centering on an author’s complicated relationship with his daughter.
Emmy-winner Bill Lawrence (“Ted Lasso,” “Shrinking,” “Scrubs”) and Emmy-nominee Matt Tarses (“Scrubs,” “The Goldbergs,” “Sports Night”) will write the first episode and executive produce the upcoming Warner Bros. Television series.
“The combination of Steve Carell and Bill Lawrence promises to be full of great laughs, warmth, and charm,” Amy Gravitt, EVP of HBO and Max comedy programming, said in a statement. “We’re thrilled to be the home for this long overdue collaboration.”
“HBO has long been a standard bearer of quality TV,” Lawrence said in a statement. “Getting to do a show there with Steve Carell is an immediate career highlight for Matt and me. Nothing can go wrong now.”
“We’re so excited to be collaborating with the dream team of Steve Carell, Bill Lawrence, and Matt Tarses on what is sure to be a brilliant new series,” Channing Dungey, Warner Bros. Television Group Chairman and CEO, said in a statement. “Collectively, they have been at the center of some of the most iconic and successful shows in television history. With thanks to our partners at HBO, we look forward to bringing them together to deliver the next great comedy.”
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Carell is currently starring on-stage at The Lincoln Center in Uncle Vanya and next resumes his voice role in Despicable Me 4 and will segue into the Netflix comedy series “The Four Seasons,” alongside Tina Fey, which is an adaptation of the original film starring Alan Alda and Carol Burnett.