{"id":8216,"date":"2017-09-15T09:55:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/jim-carrey-returns-tv-showtime-comedy\/"},"modified":"2020-04-17T13:56:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:56:35","slug":"jim-carrey-returns-to-tv-in-showtime-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/jim-carrey-returns-to-tv-in-showtime-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Carrey Returns to TV in Showtime Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Showtime has picked up the comedy series <em>Kidding<\/em>, which will feature Jim Carrey in his first series-regular role in more than two decades.<\/p>\n<p>The half-hour series will see Carrey (<em>The Truman Show<\/em>) reuniting with Oscar winner Michel Gondry (<em>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/em>), who will direct the project. Carrey will executive produce with Gondry, Jason Bateman (<em>Arrested Development<\/em>), Jim Garavente (<em>Bad Words<\/em>), Raffi Adlan (<em>The Green Hornet<\/em>) and Michael Aguilar (<em>I&#8217;m Dying Up Here<\/em>). <em>Kidding<\/em> was created by Dave Holstein (<em>Weeds<\/em>, <em>Raising Hope<\/em>), who wrote the pilot and will serve as showrunner.<\/p>\n<p>In the series, which has been ordered for an initial ten episodes, Carrey plays Jeff, a.k.a. Mr. Pickles, an icon of children\u2019s TV\u2014and a beacon of kindness and wisdom to America\u2019s impressionable young minds and the parents who grew up with him\u2014who also anchors a multi-million-dollar branding empire. But when this beloved personality\u2019s family (wife, two sons, sister and father) begins to implode, Jeff finds no fairy tale or fable or puppet will guide him through this crisis, which advances faster than his means to cope. The result: a kind man in a cruel world faces a slow leak of sanity as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one inhabits a character like Jim Carrey, and this role, which is like watching Humpty Dumpty after the fall, is going to leave television audiences wondering how they went so long without him,\u201d said David Nevins, the president and CEO of Showtime Networks. \u201cWith his <em>Eternal Sunshine<\/em> partner Michel Gondry on board to direct, we are on our way to a magnetic, volcanic and emotional viewing experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showtime has picked up the comedy series Kidding, which will feature Jim Carrey in his first series-regular role in more than two decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1482,80],"class_list":["post-8216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-jim-carrey","tag-showtime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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