Jason Segel Comedy Series ‘Shrinking’ Ordered at Apple TV+

EXCLUSIVE: Julie White is set as a series regular opposite Pete Holmes in CBS comedy Smallwood, based on professional bowler Tom Smallwood’s life, from writer Mark Gross and producers David Hollander and Brian D’Arcy James.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJon Hamm will voice the lead character of the new Fox animated comedy series “Grimsburg.”The series, which is slated to debut on the broadcaster in 2023, will see Hamm play Marvin Flute, maybe the greatest detective ever to catch a cannibal clown or correctly identify a mid-century modern armoire. But there’s one mystery he still can’t crack — his family.

Jon Hamm is to voice a misanthropic detective in a new animated comedy series for Fox.

When tragedy strikes, family is everything.

Angelique Jackson After winning more than a few fans’ hearts — and a supporting actor Emmy nomination — as Chidi on “The Good Place,” William Jackson Harper takes center stage in HBO Max’s romantic anthology series “Love Life,” playing Marcus Watkins, a newly single 30-something trying to find his way.“Marcus, first of all, is a much better dresser than I am,” Harper quips, admitting his uniform is jeans and T-shirt versus his character’s suit and tie.

EXCLUSIVE: Laura Patalano (Gentefied) and Julia Vera (Elena of Avalor) are set as series regulars opposite Chris Estrada in Hulu comedy series This Fool, from ABC Signature.

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation with multiple bidders, Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald’s Counterbalance Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television, where the company is under an overall deal, have acquired rights to Marc Fisher’s Washington Post article “Powerball mystery: Someone in this tiny town won $731 million. Now everyone wants a piece of it.” The story will be developed into a half-hour comedy and a search for a writer is currently underway.

Humor is subjective. While Hollywood studios would likely greatly abuse the formula for guaranteed laughs, the truth is that telling jokes and making people laugh is something that can’t really be nailed down to one obvious style.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterIMDb TV has greenlit the comedy series “Primo” from Shea Serrano and Michael Schur.The show was originally announced as being in development at the Amazon-owned streamer in May. The single-cam series is inspired by Serrano’s life growing up in San Antonio, TX.

EXCLUSIVE: Tisha Campbell (Dr. Ken), Emerson Brooks (The Last Ship) and Brooks Ashmanskas (The Good Lord Bird) are set as series regulars opposite Neil Patrick Harris in Uncoupled, Netflix’s new comedy series created and executive produced by Younger and Emily in Paris creator/executive producer Darren Star and longtime Modern Family executive producer Jeffrey Richman.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe Craig Robinson-led Peacock comedy series “Killing It” has set its main cast.Claudia O’Doherty (“Love,” “Trainwreck”), Rell Battle (“Black-ish,” “The Good Doctor”), Scott MacArthur (“The Mick,” “Righteous Gemstones”), Stephanie Nogueras (“The Good Fight,” “Switched at Birth”), Wyatt Walter (“Sons of Thunder”), and Jet Miller (“Bethany,” “Young Dylan”) have all joined Robinson in the series.Robinson stars in the half-hour series as Craig, a man who will do anything to

EXCLUSIVE: Emilija Baranac (Riverdale), Richard Harmon (The 100) and Jennifer Tong (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) have been set to star in YA comedy series Fakes (10×30), which is underway in Vancouver for Netflix and CBC Gem.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” creators Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna are re-teaming on a comedy series currently in development at Hulu, Variety has learned.Titled “Badass (And Her Sister),” the series focuses on an impossibly badass spy (Bloom) who tires of her life of sexy espionage goes to live with her pushover twin sister (also played by Bloom) and, together, they learn what it means to actually be badass.Brosh McKenna and Bloom would serve as writers,

Sascha Rothchild.Here’s the official description for “XO, Kitty,” which will consist of 10 half-hour episodes: “Teen matchmaker Kitty Song Covey thinks she knows everything there is to know about love. But when she moves halfway across the world to reunite with her long-distance boyfriend, she’ll soon realize that relationships are a lot more complicated when it’s your own heart on the line.”“XO, Kitty” will be executive produced by Han, Rothchild and Matt Kaplan of ACE Entertainment.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorRoku, in another opportunistic programming pickup, will bring comedy series “Children Ruin Everything” to U.S. audiences — streaming for free on the Roku Channel — in an exclusive pact with production company New Metric Media.The new half-hour comedy is created by Kurt Smeaton (“Schitt’s Creek,” “Kim’s Convenience”) and will air on Bell Media’s CTV network in Canada next spring.

Have you guys heard about “Ted Lasso?” It’s this super-secret Apple TV+ series that no one knows about, but it’s actually pretty damn good! And folks, you should really watch it. I’m going to go out on a limb and call it awards-worthy.

Apple TV+ has given a formal series green light to Shrinking, a 10-episode comedy series starring Jason Segel, who also serves as writer and executive producer alongside Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, coming off their Emmy wins for the streamer’s hit comedy Ted Lasso.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Ted Lasso’s” Brett Goldstein and Bill Lawrence are uniting with Jason Segel on the Apple comedy series “Shrinking,” Variety has learned.Goldstein, Lawrence, and Segel will all serve as writers and executive producers on the series, with Segel also set to star. Lawrence will executive produce under his Doozer Productions banner along with Jeff Ingold.

Fox has taken in for development Dirt Girls, an animated comedy series from Victoria Vincent (We The People, A Dog That Smokes Weed) and Fox Entertainment’s Bento Box Entertainment.