Must-See TV Reunion: Tina Fey and Steve Carell Team Up for Netflix Comedy Series ‘The Four Seasons’
Two of NBC’s Must-See TV regulars are working together – though this time it’s for Netflix.
Fey, whose sitcom 30 Rock aired on the same Thursday night comedy lineup as Carell’s hit comedy The Office, will headline The Four Seasons, based on the 1981 film of the same name. The two last worked together on the 2010 comedy feature Date Night.
The Four Seasons film, written and directed by Alan Alda, starred Alan Alda with Carol Burnett, Rita Moreno, Sandy Dennis, and Len Cariou as three married couples who vacation together each year and then have to cope with the chaos wrought when one of the husbands leaves his wife and instead starts bringing a younger woman along on the shared holiday.
The film was previously adapted as a series for CBS in 1984. It starred Jack Weston, Tony Roberts, Barbara Babcock, Allan Arbus and Joanna Kerns, and was canceled after 13 episodes.
The Netflix series was announced in January, and will begin production later this year. Fey will serve as Executive Producer under her Little Stranger, Inc. banner for Universal. Her 30 Rock colleagues Tracey Wigfield and Lang Fisher are handling the scripts for the series as well as produce alongside David Miner, Eric Gurian, and Jeff Richmond. Alda and Marissa Bregman, whose father produced the film, will also produce the series.
No other casting details or premiere date is known at this time.