Ted Lasso team to bring Harrison Ford to Apple TV Plus in new comedy Shrinking

Date:
Tue, 05 Apr 2022 12:57:41 +0000

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Apple TV Plus makes another star signing

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Apple is making another major signing to its Apple TV Plus streaming
platform, and its one that Star Wars fans might want to sit up and take note of.

Set to make his first recurring TV appearances for a serialised show,
Harrison Ford is set to appear in Shrinking, a new comedy series from Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, the creative team behind another Apple TV Plus hit, Ted Lasso .

Shrinking, first announced in October, tells the tale of a grieving therapist who breaks their code of ethics as they come to terms with their loss. Ford will play cognitive behavioural therapy specialist Dr. Phil Rhodes, with
Jason Segel taking the lead role.

Filming for Shrinking is set to start this month, with an expected release date in early 2023. Prestige streaming

Though there was some initial trepidation from creatives about the move to streaming platforms amplified during lockdown when cinema releases were relegated to streaming debuts increasingly were seeing big names coming to the likes of Netflix , Apple TV Plus and Amazon Prime Video before
traditional network or theater releases.

Whether thats because of creative control or larger paychecks, A-List stars can now more regularly be found in small screen productions the likes of which stars like Ford would once have turned their noses up at.

In the case of Apple TV Plus, for instance, it recently enjoyed bringing Samuel L. Jackson to the service in miniseries The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, while Oscar winner Gary Oldman is currently heading up Slow Horses on Apple
TV Plus, too.

What started with The Sopranos and The Wire roughly twenty years ago has evolved into a TV climate where prestige is as often found on TV as it is on the silver screen. We cant wait to see what Harrison Ford brings to the
table. Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson are also soon set to join Apple TV Plus



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