Steve Carell returns to college in the trailer for Rooster, the new HBO comedy from Ted Lasso and Shrinking co-creator Bill Lawrence and former Scrubs co-creator Matt Tarses.
The 10-episode series will premiere on HBO on March 8 at 10 p.m. Episodes will air weekly until Sunday, May 10th.
In the trailer, Carell visits his daughter, played by Charlie Clive. The professor (accidentally) sets the staff dormitory on fire and (deliberately) beats her husband, a fellow professor at the university who left her as a graduate student. A bestselling author of a popular series, Carell is coaxed into contributing on campus, where he befriends students, attends fractal parties, and strives to live up to the novel’s protagonist’s nickname, “Rooster.”
“Rooster” also stars Daniel Deadwyler (“Till”), “Ted Lasso” star Phil Dunster, John C. McGinley and Lauren Tsai. The series is being created by co-showrunners Lawrence and Tarses, who also executive produced Doozer along with Jeff Ingold and Riza Katzer. Jonathan Krisel, Barbie Adler, Annie Mebane, David Stassen, Anthony King, David Heyman, Steve Carell. The studio is Warner Bros. Television, and both Doozer and Tarses have an overall agreement.
Carell, best known for his role as Michael Scott in America’s beloved reboot of The Office, will no longer be starring in Jesse Armstrong’s HBO film Mountainhead and Tina Fey’s Netflix series The Four Seasons. Meanwhile, Lawrence is juggling producer roles on Apple TV’s “Shrinking,” “Ted Lasso” and “Bad Monkey,” as well as ABC’s upcoming reboot of “Scrubs.”
Watch the trailer for “Rooster” below.
