Ben Stiller is riding high after the second season of his hit Apple TV+ series “Severance” has made him very in demand, and he is now gearing up to take a key acting role in a new show at HBO. It is a somewhat surprising development, for sure. That new hourlong series, revealed by Deadline, is titled “The Band,” Stiller’s music industry role of Oscar was inspired by a reality show celebrity and mogul Simon Cowell.
It’s a fairly unexpected move; Stiller hasn’t acted on television as a regular thing since his short-lived avant-garde sketch comedy series “The Ben Stiller Show.”
This new HBO project created by Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers, the co-creators of the acclaimed TBS/Max comedy “Search Party,” hails from Media Res and Stiller’s Red Hour Films; the duo is behind Apple TV+’s biggest hits “The Morning Show” and “Severance.”
The music industry show’s synopsis mentioned in the report reads:
“‘The Band’ offers an inside look at the music industry centered on Oscar (Stiller), 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.”
Stiller’s Oscar will assemble a boy band and is expected to parody Cowell’s formation of One Direction, one of the biggest British boy band acts in a generation.
Bliss and Rogers will act as co-showrunners on “The Band,” we’ll have to wait and see who else HBO ends up casting alongside Stiller in the high-profile comedy series.
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