Steve Carell, perhaps most famous for his sensational performance as Michael in The Office, will be returning to the small screen. He will star in a new HBO comedy, co-created by Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses, who previously worked together on Scrubs.
The creator of Scrubs, Bill Lawrence, is teaming up with Matt Tarses, one of the consulting producers from the show, to create a new comedy for HBO. And, most excitingly of all, they have already secured Steve Carell, known for The Office and countless films, including The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), and Foxcatcher (2014).
The project is expected to be another great success for Warner Bros., who have been pumping money into HBO to produce expensive shows like this and the upcoming Harry Potter adaption. Although, unlike that behemoth, which has already been commissioned for a whopping seven seasons, this show has only secured ten episodes so far.
The announcement was vague, but we do have a loose overview. Per The Hollywood Reporter:
The comedy is set on a college campus and centers on an author’s complicated relationship with his daughter.
Presumably Steve Carell will play the author, who is perhaps on a college campus as one of the faculty, and his daughter will be one of the students. This is pure conjecture, but it seems like the most likely explanation for a father-daughter relationship to take place on campus.
We don't have any further plot details or casting confirmations, and we expect the project is still years away from release. Until then, you can catch Steve Carell alongside Tina Fey in Netflix’s The Four Seasons, an adaption of the 1981 film of the same name.