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Apple TV+ has set a fall premiere date for Season 2 of Shrinking. The dramedy starring Jason Segel will be released on Wednesday, October 16, the streamer announced Monday. Shrinking follows grieving therapist Jimmy (Segel) who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks…

EXCLUSIVE: Ashley Nicole Black is doubling down on both sides of the camera. The two-time past Emmy winner has joined the second season of Shrinking and the upcoming first season of Bad Monkey, I've learned. However, Black’s’ addition to the two AppleTV+ series, executive produced by Bill…

Shrinking co-creator Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso) is stepping in front of the camera in Season 2. Sources tell Deadline there had been multiple attempts to have Goldstein appear in the Apple dramedy but things didn’t pan out. When the perfect role came along—which btw is currently top secret—he…

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Segel has signed with UTA. The star, co-writer and executive producer of the Apple TV+ series Shrinking had been with WME. Starring alongside Harrison Ford, Segel earned Segel Best Actor nominations at the 2023 Primetime Emmys and 2024 Golden Globes. The versatile actor, writer…

Jessica Williams just earned her first Emmy nomination for her portrayal of no-nonsense therapist Gaby in Apple TV’s Shrinking, and she spoke to Deadline about the monumental moment in her career while she was getting dressed to hit the picket line at Disney in support of the WGA writers…

Editor’s note: This episode of Behind the Lens was taped before the start of the writers strike May 2. Versatile is certainly the word to describe Brett Goldstein. He is not only a two-time Emmy winner as Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for…

Jason Segel got his first taste of stardom in cult TV series like Judd Apatow’s Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared. He also spent nine seasons as Marshall on How I Met Your Mother, another season on Amazon’s Dispatches From Elsewhere, and will be embarking on a…

Editor’s note: The interviews conducted in this podcast were recorded at Deadline’s Contenders TV event, prior to the WGA’s strike starting on May 2. We're back! Just a few days before the nomination round of Emmy voting begins, we're dropping our first TV Talk podcast of the 2023 small-screen…

In setting out to make Shrinking, Jason Segel knew that casting would be “the all-important thing” — that if an ensemble with the right chemistry couldn’t be assembled, the show just wouldn’t work. “This is a show where, while there are some big plot moves, it’s not a patient of the week,” Segel…

In Apple TV+ series Shrinking, Jason Segel stars as Jimmy Laird, a therapist desperately in need of therapy. Following the death of his wife, Jimmy has dissolved into drugs and self-destruction, to the disgust of his teen daughter (Lukita Maxwell). And yet, he is curiously likeable and redeemable — such…

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Knowing producer Bill Lawrence has plenty of benefits, including access to his address book full of connections. That’s according to composer Tom Howe, who worked with Marcus Mumford and Ben Gibbard on the themes songs for two of Lawrence’s shows, Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso and Shrinking…