Ben Stiller has found his next TV project — both behind and in front of the camera.
The Severance executive producer and director is set to star in a dramedy called The Band for HBO. The project, from Search Party co-creators Sarah Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers, is in development at the premium cabler.
The Band is set in the music industry. Stiller, who will also exec produce via his Red Hour Films, will play Oscar, a “pop impresario and talent mogul beset by scandal who is tasked with forming a new act in order to save his career — and perhaps his soul,” per the show’s description. Should it go to series, The Band will be Stiller’s first ongoing TV acting role since he recurred on Arrested Development (In both its Fox and Netflix iterations).
Media Res, the studio behind The Morning Show and Pachinko at Apple TV+, is co-producing The Band with HBO.
More to come.
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