Ted Lasso’s Phil Dunster Joins Steve Carell in Bill Lawrence HBO College Comedy

Well, this casting news definitely isn’t poop-eh.

Phil Dunster has been tapped to star opposite Steve Carell in a college-set comedy series from Ted Lasso executive producer Bill Lawrence, our sister site Deadline reports.

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The untitled comedy, which has already received a straight-to-series order, is “set on a college campus, centering on an author’s complicated relationship with his daughter,” according to the official logline. Carell will play the author, but details about Dunster’s character are currently unknown.

Lawrence and Matt Tarsis (Scrubs) will executive-produce the series, alongside Carell, Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer. Lawrence and Tarsis are also writing the first episode.

“HBO has long been a standard bearer of quality TV,” Lawrence said when the series was first announced in May. “Getting to do a show there with Steve Carell is an immediate career highlight for Matt and me. Nothing can go wrong now.”

“The combination of Steve Carell and Bill Lawrence promises to be full of great laughs, warmth and charm,” added executive vice president of HBO & Max comedy programming Amy Gravitt. “We’re thrilled to be the home for this long overdue collaboration.”

Will you follow Carell and Dunster around campus? Drop a comment with your thought on their new comedy below.

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