Jason Segel
“I Liked Having Permission to Be Annoying”: ‘THR Presents’ Q&A With the Cast and Creators of ‘Shrinking’
The first season of Shrinking ends with a literal cliff-hanger. One of Jimmy’s (Jason Segel) patients takes his unconventional therapeutic advice to the extreme and pushes her abusive husband over the edge of a Los Angeles mountain, right as the credits roll. Segel and his co-creators Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein had the idea for […]
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How to Get to That “F*** You, I’ll Do What I Want” Place: Steven Yeun, John Mulaney and the THR Comedy Actor Roundtable
“So, same time next week?” Abbott Elementary star Tyler James Williams jokes with the others — Steven Yeun (Beef), Jason Segel (Shrinking), Mo Amer (Mo) and John Mulaney (John Mulaney: Baby J) — after a particularly therapeutic hour of conversation in early May. It is THR‘s annual Comedy Actor Emmy Roundtable, and the five men […]
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‘Shrinking’ Star Christa Miller Talks Finale Cliffhanger and How Her Real Marriage Inspires Liz’s Arc
[This story contains spoilers for the finale of Apple’s Shrinking, “Closure.”] For Shrinking viewers who want more of Liz and Derek, look no further than Christa Miller. The actress plays Liz in the Apple grief comedy, the helicopter neighbor with a big heart to Jason Segel’s grieving therapist Jimmy. She’s also the series’ music supervisor […]
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‘Shrinking’ Renewed for Season 2 at Apple
Apple TV+ is returning to the couch. The iPhone maker and streamer has handed out a second-season renewal for the comedy Shrinking. The series, which hails from Ted Lasso producers Warner Bros. TV, drops its eighth of 10 episodes Friday. “We have loved the engaging, touching and hilarious world of Shrinking since the beginning, and […]
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How Apple TV’s ‘Shrinking’ Creators Snagged Harrison Ford and Learned From ‘Ted Lasso’
Ten episodes into production of the Apple TV+ grief comedy Shrinking, co-creator Brett Goldstein insists the cast and crew were still asking, “How the fuck is Harrison Ford here?” In truth, Goldstein (aka Roy Kent of Ted Lasso) has often wondered it too, incredulous that the Indiana Jones star agreed to make his comedy debut […]
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Harrison Ford Talks Taking on Comedy and His Recent Pivot to TV With ‘Shrinking’
After five decades as a movie star, Harrison Ford has started his 2023 out by headlining two new TV series: Yellowstone prequel 1923 and Apple TV+ comedy Shrinking. The latter series, co-created by Jason Segel, Brett Goldstein and Bill Lawrence, follows Segel as a grieving, widowed therapist pushing the ethics of his profession, with Ford […]
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‘Shrinking’ Creators on Harrison Ford, Therapy and ‘The Muppets’
Welcome to the 199th episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast. Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as […]
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‘Shrinking’ Review: Harrison Ford Keeps Jason Segel’s Wobbly Apple TV+ Dramedy Afloat
The actors lead a series, created by Segel and 'Ted Lasso' alums Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, about a grieving therapist trying to get his life back on track.
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Harrison Ford and Jason Segel Are Therapists on the Emotional Edge in ‘Shrinking’ Trailer
Jason Segel is a spiraling therapist, grieving the loss of his wife, in the official trailer for AppleTV+’s Shrinking. In the nearly three-minute look at the series — written by Segel, Brett Goldstein and Bill Lawrence — the How I Met Your Mother alum breaks all the rules of therapy and begins telling his clients […]
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‘Winning Time’ Star Jason Segel on Series Pushback: “The Show Is Made With a Ton of Love”
[Warning: This story contains spoilers for Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty episode six, “Memento Mori.”] Jason Segel gets it. When a project is based on actual people, there is going to be some level of pushback by the subjects or those who know them. And Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty […]
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Harrison Ford to Star in Apple TV+ Series From ‘Ted Lasso’ Duo, Jason Segel
Harrison Ford will take on his first ongoing TV series role in a comedy for Apple TV+. Ford will star with Jason Segel in Shrinking, which comes from Ted Lasso producers Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein and Segel. The series, picked up in October 2021, centers on a grieving therapist (Segel) who begins to break […]
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Lily Collins on Working With Director-Husband Charlie McDowell in ‘Windfall’: “He’s Weirdly Calm Under Pressure”
Lily Collins teamed with director Charlie McDowell and actors Jason Segel and Jesse Plemons on the new Netflix film Windfall, and, yes, one of those men is now her husband, but that’s not the way she saw him while on set last summer in Ojai. “It’s really funny because I kept forgetting that we were […]
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