Ben Stiller to Star in Music Industry Dramedy ‘The Band’ at HBO
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.
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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.
Bliss and Rogers will be showrunners on the project and executive produce with Stiller and John Lesher for Red Hour, Savan Kotecha and Media Res’ Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer.
In addition to Severance, Stiller’s TV credits as a producer include Showtime’s Escape at Dannemora, The CW’s In the Dark and Comedy Central’s Another Period, along with his eponymous 1990s Fox sketch show.
Stiller and Red Hour are repped by WME and Sloane Offer. Bliss and Rogers are with UTA, Rise Management and Jackoway Austen.
Deadline first reported the news.
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