Jim Carrey is set for a return to the small screen for his first regular role since In Living Color in the 1990s, reteaming with his Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry for the half-hour comedy series Kidding.
Variety reports that Showtime has placed a ten episode order for the series, which has been created by Dave Holstein (Weeds, I’m Dying Up Here) and sees Carrey as “Jeff, a.k.a. Mr. Pickles, an icon of children’s television, who also anchors a multimillion dollar branding empire. But when his family begins to implode, Jeff finds no fairy tale or fable or puppet will guide him through this crisis, which advances faster than his means to cope.”
“No one inhabits a character like Jim Carrey, and this role – which is like watching Humpty Dumpty after the fall – is going to leave television audiences wondering how they went so long without him,” said Showtime president and CEO David Nevins. “With his Eternal Sunshine partner Michel Gondry on board to direct, we are on our way to a magnetic, volcanic and emotional viewing experience.”
Holstein s serving as showrunner, as well as executive producing with Carrey, Gondry, Jason Batman, Raffi Adlan, Jim Garavente and Michael Aguilar.
