Ted Danson joins upcoming untitled Apple TV comedy series

Actor Ted Danson (Cheers, The Good Place) is the newest star to join an upcoming half-hour comedy series led and produced by Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games, Love & Mercy). Here are the details.

Ted Danson to play Elizabeth Banks’s father

As reported by Deadline, legendary actor Ted Danson has joined Elizabeth Banks’s untitled half-hour comedy series, which is set to start filming this year in Los Angeles.

The show, which also stars Rob Delaney (Bad Monkey, Deadpool & Wolverine), was created by Liz Heldens (The Dropout) and Matt Ward (The Big Leap), and will tell the story of Heidi (Banks), a recently-divorced woman who “sets out to secure a lively second act for herself and her kids”.