Kevin Kline Comedy ‘American Classic’ Gets MGM+ Series Order; Jon Tenney Co-Stars In Fifth Season Production
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: MGM+ has given an eight-episode series order to American Classic, a half-hour comedy starring and executive produced by Oscar winner Kevin Kline.
Jon Tenney (The Closer, Scandal) co-stars in the series from co-creators Michael Hoffman (Soapdish, Restoration) and Bob Martin (The Prom, Slings and Arrows).
This marks only the second half-hour comedy series in MGM+’s history after 2016’s Graves, starring Nick Nolte, which ran for two seasons. (The linear channel and streaming service’s other half-hour original was the 2021 dramedy Bridge and Tunnel.) American Classic had been in the works at MGM+ for more than three years; it was announced as part of the development slate of the platform (then named Epix) on February 3, 2022.
Fifth Season has since come on board as studio, with Mar-Key Pictures, Likely Story and Anonymous Content producing. The comedy centers on Broadway star and notorious narcissist Richard Bean (Kline) who suffers a spectacular public meltdown and returns to his hometown and the family-run theater where he first became aware of his own brilliance.
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