{"id":164843,"date":"2025-09-23T22:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T22:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164843\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T22:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T22:52:06","slug":"marshawn-lynch-developing-detective-comedy-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164843\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshawn Lynch developing detective comedy series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former football player Marshawn Lynch has been a scene-stealer for some time now. His acting career has taken him everywhere from Westworld to The League, the classroom in Bottoms to the classroom in Euphoria (or wherever that show is going in season three<\/a>). One of his most notable comedic performances<\/a> was as himself in the improv mystery series Murderville, where he tagged along with Will Arnett\u2019s detective Terry Seattle to solve a case. So perhaps it will come as no surprise that Lynch is developing a new sitcom where he plays himself tagging along with a detective to solve a case.<\/p>\n

Per Deadline<\/a>, Amazon MGM Studios has bought a pitch for a new half-hour comedy starring Lynch and created by Max Searle (Dave), who will serve as showrunner. The as-yet untitled series will see Lynch \u201cas a version of himself who, in refusing the typical life of a retired athlete, dives into a new career as a Las Vegas private eye\u2014teaming with a tough, veteran female PI in a partnership as unpredictable as the cases they take on.\u201d Among the executive producers is Murderville\u2018s Will Arnett.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lynch has some experience with the \u201cversion of himself\u201d role on The League and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, not to mention the handful of reality shows (Bar Rescue, The Great American Baking Show, Stars On Mars, etc.) where he just, y\u2019know, was himself. The common theme of all these projects is that he wanted to have fun and try new things, \u201creally just playing out childhood dreams,\u201d he explained to <\/a>The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> in 2022. \u201cLike I think about when I was a youth, I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, that shit would look fun to do. Oh man, if I was in that, I would do something like this or something like that.\u2019 So now I\u2019m in a position where if I just think it or speak it into existence, that shit will kinda happen.\u201d He added, \u201cI like to have fun, but at the same time I\u2019m not looking at the acting like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s challenging. I want a challenge,\u2019 this, that and the third. Nah. Fuck that. If it\u2019s something that it looks like I\u2019ll enjoy doing it, then yeah I\u2019ll rock like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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