By Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV Apple has given a straight-to-series order to The Shrink Next Door, an eight-episode limited series starring Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd, which is based on the #1 new podcast of 2019 by Wondery and Bloomberg Media.
The streamer landed in competitive situation the project, from director Michael Showalter and writer Georgia Pritchett, which reunites Ferrell and Rudd after starring together in 2013’s Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.
MRC Television took the package out in February. Directed by Showalter (The Big Sick, The Lovebirds) based on a script by Pritchett (Succession, Veep), The Shrink Next Door is a dark comedy inspired by true events that detail the bizarre relationship between psychiatrist
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