{"id":818347,"date":"2026-07-23T08:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/818347\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T08:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:22:19","slug":"benicio-del-toro-and-ben-stiller-are-in-protective-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/818347\/","title":{"rendered":"Benicio Del Toro and Ben Stiller are in Protective Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"

After giving two wildly different but equally funny performances in The Phoenician Scheme and One Battle After Another<\/a> last year, Benicio Del Toro is working out his funny bone for an Apple TV show. Announced earlier today, Protective Custody will mark the first time Del Toro leads a comedy series. However, he\u2019ll get some help from the director of his last dramatic one, Ben Stiller, who stars in and executive produced the series. Stiller directed Del Toro\u2019s premium-cable prison epic, Escape At Dannemora<\/a>, and, presumably, suggested Del Toro belch the lines, \u201cDon\u2019t tell anybody,\u201d at Patricia Arquette, giving the miniseries its most iconic and strangest moment. Like Del Toro, Protective Custody is the first time Stiller leads a TV comedy series (if you don\u2019t count The Ben Stiller Show). And, wouldn\u2019t you know it, this pair of Dannemora\u00a0inmates are\u00a0heading back to prison.<\/p>\n

Co-written and co-showrun by Mike Judge, Veep\u2018s Steve Hely, and Parks And Recreation\u2018s Dave King,\u00a0Protective Custody\u00a0follows a disgraced financier who enters protective custody while he awaits trial for fraud. Once in prison, he must figure out the politics of the yard, salvage his reputation, and face the consequences for his crimes. Apple has yet to announce who will play the disgraced white-collar criminal struggling to survive the clink, but either one would make a good pick\u2014with Stiller being the more obvious one.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Stiller is presumably still making season three of\u00a0Severance\u00a0for the cellphone company. Earlier this year, he promised season three was already \u201cunderway<\/a>\u201d and shouldn\u2019t take as long as last time.\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After giving two wildly different but equally funny performances in The Phoenician Scheme and One Battle After Another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-818347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}