SteveCarell will executive produce and star in a new 10-episode, half-hour comedy for HBO. The series, which has been granted a straight-to-series order, comes from BillLawrence ("Ted Lasso ...
and Feig chalks that up the six-episode first season hewing so closely to the British original — particularly when it came to SteveCarell’s take on Gervais’ boorish, unlikable character.