In a rare TV series commitment, veteran actor-comedian Marc Maron (GLOW) has been tapped as a lead opposite Owen Wilson and Peter Dager in Apple TV+’s 10-episode comedy created, written by and executive produced by Jason Keller.
The untitled comedy stars Wilson as Pryce Cahill, an over-the-hill, ex-pro golfer whose career was derailed prematurely 20 years ago. After he gets fired from his job at an Indiana sporting goods store and his wife walks out on him, Pryce hedges his bets entirely on a troubled 17-year-old golf phenom, played by Dager.
Maron will play Mitts, Pryce’s best friend and former caddy.
The Apple Studios production will be directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Fleishman Is In Trouble, Little Miss Sunshine) and executive produced by Propagate’s Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens and Rodney Ferrell, Entertainment 360’s Guymon Casady, Piece of Work’s Lee Eisenberg and Natalie Sandy, Chris Moynihan, Keller, Wilson as well as Bill Callahan.
In addition to his successful long running podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, which receives over 80 million downloads a year, Maron was last seen in the acclaimed feature To Leslie and was heard in Universal’s animated The Bad Guys. This marks Maron’s first major TV role since his work on Netflix’s GLOW, which earned him a Critics Choice and SAG Award nominations. His most recent standup special, From Bleak To Dark, premiered on HBO and landed a WGA nomination. Maron is currently touring nationally his latest stand-up show, All In. He is repped by Avalon, Independent Artists Group and Brecheen Feldman Breimer Silver & Thompson.