EXCLUSIVE: Five-time Emmy nominee Connie Britton (The White Lotus, Friday Night Lights) joins the as-yet-untitled HBO Original comedy series from Bill Lawrence (Ted Lasso, Shrinking) and Matt Tarses (Scrubs, The Goldbergs) as a recurring guest star.
She joins the previously announced cast led by Steve Carell, Charly Clive, Danielle Deadwyler, Phil Dunster, John C. McGinley, and Lauren Tsai.
The comedy series is set on a college campus and follows an author’s (Carell) complicated relationship with his daughter (Clive).
Lawrence and Tarses wrote the first of 10 half-hour episodes. Lawrence executive produces the series with Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer of Doozer Productions, Tarses, Jonathan Krisel, Barbie Adler, Annie Mebane, David Stassen, Anthony King, and Carell. The comedy is produced by Doozer in association with Warner Bros Television, where Lawrence’s Doozer banner and Tarses are under overall deals.
Britton recently starred in the Netflix miniseries Zero Day, working opposite Robert De Niro, the Apple TV+ series Dear Edward, and appeared in the Prime Video comedy series Overcompensating from Benito Skinner. Before, she also starred in the first season of Mike White’s HBO series The White Lotus, which earned her a fifth Emmy nomination, and the first installment of Bravo/USA’s anthology series Dirty John. She is perhaps best known for playing Tami Taylor in NBC’s Friday Night Lights, a sports drama from Peter Berg, who developed the series inspired by the non-fiction novel (1990) by H.G. Bissinger. Britton is also recognized for her leading role in the musical drama series Nashville, playing Rayna Jaymes, and various Ryan Murphy series, including The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, American Horror Story: Murder House, and 9-1-1.
She is repped by Untitled Entertainment, CAA, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman.
