Steve Carell is returning to school for his next television project.
The actor, 61, who teamed with former Office co-star John Krasinski on the box-office champ animated film IF, will headline a new college-campus comedy for HBO/MAX.
The Despicable Me 4 star will play an author who has a complicated relationship with his daughter in the series.
The half-hour show was created by Ted Lasso co-creator Bill Lawrence and Scrubs writer and executive producer Matt Tarses.
The untitled 10-episode comedy was at the center of a multiplatform bidding war before HBO signed the dotted line.
Steve Carell is returning to school for his next television project. The actor, 61, will lead a new comedy set on a college campus for HBO/MAX; Photographed in New York City on May 13.
Carell, Tarses and Lawrence will executive produce.
‘HBO has long been a standard-bearer for quality television. “Being able to do a show there with Steve Carell is an immediate career highlight for Matt and I,” Lawrence said in a statement. “Nothing can go wrong now,”
Carell, who made her Broadway debut in Uncle Vanya this year, recently agreed to star opposite Tina Fey in The Four Seasons.
The Netflix series will be based on a 1981 comedy written and directed by 81-year-old Alan Alda.
Alan Alda and Carol Burnett, 91, played one of three married couples who vacation together each year.
Things change when one of the couples divorces and a new couple joins in.
Production on The Four Seasons is expected to begin later this year.
Alda will act as producer on the project.
The Despicable Me 4 star will play an author who has a complicated relationship with his daughter in the as-yet-untitled 10-episode series; seen in New York City in April)
The actor disappointed fans when he announced he would not be taking part in a follow-up series to his hit show The Office (pictured with Andrew Daly, Rashida Jones, Phyllis Smith, Kate Flannery and Mindy Kaling in 2005).
Carell had high praise for Domhnall Gleeson, 41, who will headline The Office sequel, set 10 years after the original show ended. The actors worked together on 2022’s The Patient.
The actor disappointed fans when he announced that he would not be participating in a follow-up series to his hit show The Office. “I’ll be watching but I won’t show up,” he said. The Hollywood Reporter.
“It’s just something new and there’s really no reason for my character (Michael Scott) to appear in something like that,” he explained.
The actor who starred in the beloved series for eight years supports the new project. ‘I’m excited about this, it sounds like a big conceit. I love the idea; I guess it takes place in a bankrupt newspaper company and I worked with Domhnall Gleeson, one of the protagonists. he said of his The Patient co-star.
“He’s a great actor and a super nice guy, so I think it’ll be great.” Gleeson, 41, and The White Lotus star Sabrina Impacciatore, 56, will lead the cast of the story set 10 years after the original series came to an end.