{"id":805380,"date":"2026-08-07T05:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805380\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T05:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:14:12","slug":"james-marsden-joins-apple-comedy-david-spade-reprising-joe-dirt-in-fox-animated-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805380\/","title":{"rendered":"James Marsden Joins Apple Comedy, David Spade Reprising Joe Dirt In Fox Animated Series"},"content":{"rendered":"


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James Marsden continues to build out his Apple TV portfolio.<\/p>\n

Following a season-long stint opposite Jon Hamm on “Your Friends & Neighbors” \u2014 check out our finale recap here<\/a> \u2014\u00a0Marsden will star in and executive-produce “Bad News Dads,” currently in development at the streamer, Deadline<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

Based on the forthcoming novel by Adam Frost and adapted by “You’re the Worst” creator Stephen Falk, the potential half-hour comedy centers on “an inept men’s baseball rec league team where one of the players’ wives dies in a suspicious accident, and the friendship-starved Ben (Marsden) leads two of his teammates in an impromptu and often misguided investigation into what they increasingly come to think was murder,” according to the official logline.<\/p>\n

Marsden is also attached to another Apple TV series still awaiting a premiere date<\/a>: action thriller “Disavowed.” His character, CIA case officer Brad Griffin, “is abruptly fired in the middle of a global hunt for an elusive assassin responsible for killing his colleague. Disgraced and outcast from the world of intelligence, all bets are off when Brad decides to go after the 15 million dollar federal bounty on the assassin’s head.”<\/p>\n

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In other casting news…<\/p>\n


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David Spade is set to reprise his role as Joe Dirt in an animated sequel series currently in development at Fox, Deadline<\/a> reports. This would mark the second follow-up to the 2001 cult classic, following 2015’s made-for-Crackle sequel “Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser.”
\nTikTok sensation Lala Sadii will star in the scripted series “Lala IRL”\u00a0in the works at Disney Channel and Disney+, according to Variety<\/a>. Based on Sadii’s real-life rise to stardom, the series “gives us a ‘behind-the-screens’ look at the girl whose dreams went supernova, and the collateral damage from the blast.”
\nStarz’s untitled Black rodeo drama has added three to its cast as series regulars:\u00a0DeWanda Wise (“Three Women”) as\u00a0eldest Clarke sibling\u00a0Anaya Clarke-Reagan, who is the mayor of Trinity City; Tian Richards (“Tom Swift”) as Anaya’s\u00a0openly gay younger brother\u00a0Rodney Clarke; and\u00a0Marcus Mitchell (“Chicago Fire”) as star bull rider\u00a0Julius Calhoun.<\/p>\n

Disney Channel’s “Big City Greens”\u00a0has added Stephen King, Luke Combs, Dylan Sprouse, Megan Stalter, Chad Michael Murray, Kevin Smith, and Jason Mewes to its guest cast in Season 5, premiering Friday, August 21 at 8 p.m. Watch a new trailer:<\/p>\n


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