Veteran comedy writers Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses are plotting their next series, and they found a perfect man to lead it. The Office star Steve Carell will play the lead role in the untitled HBO series about an author who has a complicated relationship with his daughter.
Bill Lawrence (Ted Lasso) and Matt Tarses (The Goldbergs) previously collaborated on the hit medical comedy Scrubs, and they’re looking forward to joining forces with HBO for this series. Lawrence described this network as “a standard bearer of quality TV” and said that partnering up with them is an immediate career highlight.
Amy Gravitt, EVP of HBO & Max Comedy Programming, echoed his words and said they’re looking forward to working together on this brilliant new series.
“The combination of Steve Carell and Bill Lawrence promises to be full of great laughs, warmth, and charm. We’re thrilled to be the home for this long overdue collaboration,” said Gravitt in a statement.
The untitled comedy landed a 10-episode, straight-to-series, and it will be set on a college campus and center on an author’s complicated relationship with his daughter.
This isn’t the only promising TV project that Carell is currently working on – he’s fresh off signing a deal to star in Tina Fey’s Netflix comedy series The Four Seasons.
