Riz Ahmed & Ben Karlin Teaming On Amazon Comedy Series About Struggling Actor
deadline.comRiz Ahmed is to create, star in and produce an Amazon comedy series about a struggling actor on the cusp of landing the role of a lifetime with Modern Family EP Ben Karlin and Jax Media.
The untitled half-hour show is the first fruits of the deal struck between Prime Video and Oscar-nominee Ahmed’s Left Handed Films three years ago.
Ahmed and Karlin will showrun the series, which follows Shah Latif, a struggling actor on the cusp of landing the role of a lifetime only to find himself thrust into an existential crisis and trippy conspiracy thriller at the same time.
The project is Ahmed’s first in TV since he won an Emmy for HBO’s The Night Of. He has since been Oscar nominated for Amazon’s Sound of Metal, in which he played a drummer who loses his hearing.
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