Jon Hamm to Star in and Executive Produce Apple TV+s New Drama Your Friends and Neighbor

Publish date: 2024-06-03

It’s a full-blown holiday Hamm-aissance. Jon Hamm will next star in Apple TV+‘s new drama series “Your Friends and Neighbors,” which he’ll also executive produce. The show is based on an idea from Jonathan Tropper, who is also showrunner on the project.

Americans are carving into freshly baked Hamm all over the place right now. Hamm is currently hamm-ing it up on Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show” and FX’s new season of “Fargo” — not to mention his upcoming animated Fox series “Grimsburg” (which he also EPs in addition to providing the lead voice) and Amazon Prime Video’s “Good Omens” earlier this year. Jon Hamm is what’s for TV dinner.

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Hamm previously appeared in an Apple TV+ marketing spot, “Everyone But Jon Hamm.” That was clearly rectified. Now, Apple Studios is behind “Your Friend and Neighbors,” in which he’ll play the lead as Coop, “a recently divorced hedge fund manager who, after being fired, resorts to stealing from the wealthy residents in his tony upstate New York suburb in order to keep his family’s lifestyle afloat. These petty crimes begin to reinvigorate him until he breaks into the wrong house at the wrong time.”

It’s Hamm’s first leading live-action role in an ongoing series since “Mad Men.” (OK, there are a lot of caveats there. But there need to be when you’re on half of TV right now, like Jon Hamm.)

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Screenwriter, producer and novelist Tropper (“See,” “The Adam Project,” “Warrior,” “Banshee”) is also executive producer under his overall deal with Apple TV+. Besides Hamm, Connie Tavel (“Confess Fletch”) will also EP.

Via his shingle Tropper Ink, Tropper was showrunner and executive producer of Apple TV+’s “See,” starring Jason Momoa. He wrote films including “The Adam Project,” starring Ryan Reynolds, “This Is Where I Leave You,” starring Jason Bateman and Tina Fey, and “Kodachrome,” starring Ed Harris, Jason Sudeikis and Elizabeth Olsen, in addition to six bestseller novels. Maybe it’s a Tropper-aissance too.

Tropper is represented by CAA, Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment and attorney Fred Toczek at Felker, Toczek, Suddleson, Abramson. Hamm is repped by CAA, Forward Entertainment and Sloan, Offer, Weber and Dern and Wolf-Kasteler Public Relations.

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