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Rooster reunites Steve Carell with half-hour comedy under Bill Lawrence, the co-creator of Ted Lasso, Scrubs and Shrinking, who developed the series with Matt Tarses.

It became HBO's most-watched comedy premiere in more than a decade, drawing roughly 2.4 million U.S. viewers in its first three days, and was renewed for a second season within weeks.

The fictional Ludlow College was assembled from real campuses, with the University of the Pacific standing in for it and additional filming at Occidental College and USC, and Carell earned an Emmy nomination for his performance.

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Rooster is an HBO Max comedy from Bill Lawrence, the co-creator of Ted Lasso, Scrubs and Shrinking, developed with Matt Tarses. Premiering in March 2026, it hands Steve Carell one of his richest television roles since The Office and became a breakout hit for the platform, blending warm character comedy with a streak of midlife melancholy.

Carell plays Greg Russo, a middle-aged author who arrives at a small New England college ostensibly to give a talk, but whose real mission is to check up on his adult daughter Katie, an art-history instructor whose marriage is falling apart. Charly Clive plays Katie, with Danielle Deadwyler, Phil Dunster, John C. McGinley and Lauren Tsai rounding out a campus ensemble full of complications.

The series became HBO's most-watched comedy premiere in more than a decade, drawing millions of viewers in its opening days, and was quickly renewed for a second season. Carell earned an Emmy nomination for the role, anchoring a show about the messy business of being needed. It is streaming on HBO Max.

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