Steve Carell is getting a new show! The 61-year-old The Office alum will lead a new HBO single-camera comedy series from the co-creator of Ted Lasso, Bill Lawrence, and Scrubs‘ Matt Tarses, via THR.
HBO has handed the still-untitled show a straight-to-series order of 10 episodes amid a network bidding war. Keep reading to find out more… The comedy is set on a college campus and centers on an author’s complicated relationship with his daughter.
The co-creators previously collaborated on Scrubs and are currently working on the Apple series Bad Monkey, and they will write the first episode. “HBO has long been a standard bearer of quality TV.
Getting to do a show there with Steve Carell is an immediate career highlight for Matt and me.
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