Steve Carell will star in Bill Lawrence‘s new comedy series Rooster, which arrives on HBO/HBO Max on March 8, 2026. According to the series logline, the show will be, “a comedy set on a college campus centering on an author’s (Carell) complicated relationship with his daughter (Charly Clive).”

The 10-episode season from Warner Bros. Television also stars Danielle Deadwyler, Phil Dunster, John C. McGinley and Lauren Tsai. Carell also serves as executive producer, with recurring cast members including Connie Britton, Annie Mumolo, Robby Hoffman, and Scott MacArthur. Production took place at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California last June.

HBO Max has now released a trailer for the upcoming series, which follows the author as he gets “sucked into the world” of academia, offering a chance for him to reinvent himself.  A first-look image shows Carell and Clive seated opposite one another on a couch, with a dog between them. Clive holds a mug in one hand and pets the dog with the other, furrowing her brow.

Carell most recently appeared in Netflix’s The Four Seasons, based on the 1981 feature of the same name, and HBO’s Mountainhead, a film also starring Ramy Youssef, Jason Schwartzman and Cory Michael Smith.

See the trailer: HERE.

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