Molly Shannon will join her former Saturday Night Live co-star Will Ferrell in a Netflix comedy series, which is also undergoing some off-camera changes.
Ramy Youssef and Josh Rabinowitz, who were credited as co-creators and executive producers when Netflix picked up the series in May 2024, have departed the untitled show over creative differences, sources confirm to The Hollywood Reporter. Andy Campagna of Youssef’s Cairo Cowboy production company has also departed.
The series stars Ferrell as a fictional golf legend and will mark his first continuing role in a comedy series (as opposed to the sketch/variety world of SNL). Shannon, whose recent credits include Only Murders in the Building and The Other Two, will play a character named Stacy.
Shannon and Ferrell have worked together a number of times outside Saturday Night Live, including the SNL-inspired films A Night at the Roxbury and Superstar, IFC’s cult miniseries The Spoils of Babylon and The Spoils Before Dying, and several events (including the 2018 Rose Parade the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle) in which they played fictional TV hosts Tish Cattigan and Cord Hosenbeck.
Ferrell, Jessica Elbaum and Alix Taylor are executive producing the Netflix series for Gloria Sanchez Productions. Rian Johnson, Ram Bergman and Nena Rodrigue of T-Street also executive produce along with Chris Henchy, Harper Steele, David Gordon Green and Andrew Guest. The latter four recently joined the series after the departures of Youssef, Rabinowitz and Campagna.
As for Youssef, he and Cairo Cowboy remain in business with Netflix via a first-look deal signed last year. Youssef and Ramy actor Steve Way are developing a series for the streamer that’s set in a living facility.
