Having spent the last few years performing something of a greatest hits tour of his most iconic characters – Han Solo, Rick Deckard, Indiana Jones – Harrison Ford has decided to do something he hasn’t done since a 1993 episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, and that’s make a small-screen appearance.
According to Collider the legendary actor has signed on to star in Shrinking, a new comedy show from Jason Segel and Ted Lasso‘s Brett Goldstein.
Shrinking will focus of Segel’s Jimmy, a grieving therapist who starts breaking the rules by telling his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to his patients lives, and in turn his own.
Ford will play Dr. Phil Rhodes, who is described as a “blue-collar shrink”, a man who tells it like it is but with a caring charm. Rhodes is a trailblazer in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, but his life takes an unexpected turn when he is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and this once brilliant mind will have to overcome new obstacles, and learn how to deal with his legacy with these new changes.
Dispatches From Elsewhere creator Segel also serves as an executive producer on Shrinking, alongside Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, who both worked on the award-winning Ted Lasso.
Shrinking‘s ten-episode series is currently in pre-production, while earlier this year Ford finally wrapped James Mangold’s long-in-the-offing Indiana Jones 5.
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