Owen Wilson is getting his second likelihood by the use of Apple TV+. The actor is main sports activities comedy collection “Stick,” which he additionally govt produces. Wilson stars as Pryce Cahill, an over-the-hill, ex-pro golfer whose profession was derailed 20 years in the past amid a scandal. But Pryce finds a profession resurgence due to scouting (and training and caddying for) a 17-year-old golf phenom (Peter Dager). The duo could be an unlikely pair on the inexperienced, however will this save Pryce each personally and professionally?
The official synopsis reads: “After the collapse of his marriage and getting fired from his job at an Indiana sporting items retailer, Pryce hedges his bets, and future, fully on a troubled 17-year-old golf phenom named Santi (Dager).” The collection is billed as being a “heartfelt, feel-good sports activities comedy a couple of discovered household and their relationships set inside the world of golf because it has by no means been proven earlier than.”
Marc Maron, Mariana Treviño, Lilli Kay, Judy Greer, and Timothy Olyphant co-star. Actual-life golf superstars Collin Morikawa, Keegan Bradley, Max Homa, and Wyndham Clark make visitor appearances, with extra cameos from broadcasters Jim Nantz and Trevor Immelman, Good Good’s Matt Scharff, Brad Dalke, and Garrett Clark, and golf fanatic Dan Rapaport.
“Stick” is created and govt produced by Jason Keller, who is also the showrunner. Ben Silverman for Propagate Content material, Leisure 360’s Guymon Casady, Howard T. Owens, Rodney Ferrell, Drew Buckley, Lee Eisenberg, Natalie Sandy, Christopher Moynihan, Invoice Callahan, Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton, and Jaffar Mahmood govt produce. Faris, Dayton and Mahmood additionally function administrators together with David Dobkin, M.J. Delaney, and John Hamburg.
The sports activities comedy house has surged due to the success of different Apple TV+ collection “Ted Lasso.” This yr additionally consists of the premiere of “Completely satisfied Gilmore 2” with Adam Sandler again because the titular hockey participant turned golf star. Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald, and extra return to the roles they began in 1996 for the sequel.
Glen Powell is moving into the sport of sports activities collection as nicely with “Chad Powers,” which is impressed by Eli Manning’s former sketch collection. Powell co-created (and co-wrote the pilot episode for) the half-hour Hulu comedy with Michael Waldron, who additionally govt produces. Powell performs the title character who goes quasi-undercover as a school quarterback. The logline reads: “When dangerous habits nukes hotshot QB Russ Holliday’s faculty profession, he disguises himself and walks onto a struggling Southern soccer workforce because the proficient, affable Chad Powers.”
“Stick” premieres on Apple TV+ June 4 with three episodes, adopted by one new episode weekly each Wednesday by means of July 23. Take a look at the trailer beneath.