Steve Carell is headed back to school for his next TV project.
The actor, 61, who teamed up with former Office co-star John Krasinski on the animated box office champ IF, will headline a new comedy set on a college campus 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 multi-platform bidding war before HBO signed on the dotted line.
Steve Carell is headed back to school for his next TV project. The actor, 61, will headline a new comedy set on a college campus for HBO/MAX; pictured in New York City on May 13
Carell, Tarses and Lawrence will executive produce.
‘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,’ Lawrence said in a statement. ‘Nothing can go wrong now,’
Carell, who made his Broadway debut in Uncle Vanya this year, recently agreed to star with Tina Fey on The Four Seasons.
The Netflix series will be based on 1981 comedy written and directed by Alan Alda, 81.
Alan Alda and Carol Burnett, 91, starred as one of three married couples who vacation together ever year.
Things change when one of the couples divorces and brings a new partner into the mix.
Production on The Four Seasons is expected to begin later this year.
Alda will serve as a 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 be headline The Office follow-up set 10 years after the original show ended. The actors worked together in 2022’s The Patient
The actor disappointed fans when he announced he would not be taking part in a follow-up series to his hit show The Office. ‘I will be watching but I will not be showing up,’ he told The Hollywood Reporter.
‘It’s just a new thing and there’s really no reason for my character [Michael Scott] to show up in something like that,’ he explained.
The actor who starred in the beloved series for eight years is supportive of the new project. ‘I’m excited about it, it sounds like a great conceit. I love the idea — I guess it’s set in a failing newspaper company, and I worked with Domhnall Gleeson, who is one of the leads.’ he said of his The Patient co-star.
‘He’s an excellent 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 ensemble cast in the storyline set 10 years after the original series came to an end.