Dax Shepard will star in and executive produce the Fox comedy pilot “Bless This Mess,” Variety has learned.
The single-camera comedy will be an off-cycle pilot, with shooting scheduled to begin in June. The project follows a newlywed couple who give up their drab and unfulfilling lives in New York and moves to Nebraska to live a simpler life. It doesn’t work out like they planned. Shepard will play the husband, Mike. Series co-creator Lake Bell will play the wife, Rio.
Shepard is known for roles in comedies like “Without a Paddle,” “Idiocracy,” “Employee of the Month,” “Baby Mama,...
The single-camera comedy will be an off-cycle pilot, with shooting scheduled to begin in June. The project follows a newlywed couple who give up their drab and unfulfilling lives in New York and moves to Nebraska to live a simpler life. It doesn’t work out like they planned. Shepard will play the husband, Mike. Series co-creator Lake Bell will play the wife, Rio.
Shepard is known for roles in comedies like “Without a Paddle,” “Idiocracy,” “Employee of the Month,” “Baby Mama,...
- 3/7/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety - TV News
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