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EXCLUSIVE: Ben Stiller is group to prima successful and executive produce Protective Custody, a caller drama bid from Mike Judge (Silicon Valley), Steve Hely (Common Side Effects) and Dave King (Parks and Recreation) that Apple is processing pinch an oculus toward a bid order.
Marking nan first starring drama bid domiciled for Stiller, Protective Custody will travel a disgraced financier accused of monolithic fraud who is thrown into protective custody, wherever he must navigate situation politics, salvage his reputation, and face nan consequences of his actions while awaiting trial.
Judge will nonstop from scripts written pinch Emmy victor Steve Hely (Veep, The Office) and four-time Emmy nominee Dave King (English Teacher, Parks and Recreation). He’ll besides exec produce, on pinch Stiller, Oly Obst, and Michael Rotenberg.
For Stiller — an Emmy and DGA Award victor — Apple is now thing of a imaginative home. He comes to Protective Custody after directing connected and exec producing 2 seasons of their Emmy-winning drama Severance and besides released his passion task doc Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost, connected parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, pinch Apple. Additionally, he produced and stars in The Dink, a pickleball drama from head Josh Greenbaum that nan workplace releases connected July 24. Most recently, he’s signed connected to prima other Jessica Chastain successful Apple TV‘s miniseries The Off Weeks, successful which he plays a divided penning professor navigating a vulnerable romance successful his “off weeks” from parenting, amid divided custody.
Later this year, Stiller returns to nan Focker-verse with Focker-in-Law, nan latest movie successful his Meet nan Parents comedy franchise, which Universal releases connected November 25. He’s besides precocious inked a woody to prima other Nicholas Galitzine and Bella Maclean successful a caller Netflix movie called A Matter of Time from Enola Holmes helmer Harry Bradbeer. He is repped by WME and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.
An Emmy victor and Golden Globe nominee, Judge is known for his series Silicon Valley, Beavis and Butt-Head, and King of nan Hill, which presently is airing its 15th play via a Hulu revival. He precocious collaborated with Protective Custody‘s Hely and King on Common Side Effects, an big animated bid for Adult Swim, and is repped by WME, 3 Arts, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
Hely and King are some repped by 3 Arts and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis. Hely is besides pinch WME.
