Will Forte Joins Tina Fey’s ‘The Four Season’ Series

The new Netflix series adapts Alan Alda’s 1981 comedy movie, and also boasts Colman Domingo, Kerri Kenney-Silver and Erika Henningsen in its cast.

Will Forte in 'MacGruber.' Photo: Universal Pictures.

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Will Forte is the latest addition to Tina Fey’s ‘The Four Seasons’.
The new show adapts the 1981 Alan Alda comedy movie.
Steve Carell and Colman Domingo are also in the cast.

Having just appeared on a Netflix series (mystery comedy thriller ‘Bodkin’ about podcasters digging into a suspicious death), ‘Saturday Night Live’ veteran Will Forte is sticking with the streaming service for an upcoming project.

He’s the latest addition to former ‘SNL’ castmate Tina Fey’s latest comedy series, ‘The Four Seasons’ which will be based on a 1980s movie.

The Four Seasons

"Here's to our friends... and the strength to put up with them."

Not Yet Rated1 hr 47 minMay 22nd, 1981

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What was the story of ‘The Four Seasons’?

(L to R) Carol Burnett and Alan Alda in 'The Four Seasons'. Photo: Universal Pictures.

Written and directed by Alan Alda (who starred alongside Carol Burnett), the 1981 comedy also starred Rita Moreno, Sandy Dennis, and Len Cariou. It followed three married couples who take vacations together each season, but things are thrown for a loop when one of the husbands leaves his wife and begins bringing a younger woman with him.

Who is starring in ‘The Four Seasons’?

Steve Carell in 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin'. Photo: Universal Pictures.

Fey will star in the show alongside Forte (who also had a recurring role in her NBC show ’30 Rock’, Steve Carell (who co-starred with Fey in comedy thriller ‘Date Night’), ‘Rustin’s Colman Domingo, ‘Reno 911!’s Kerri Kenney-Silver, and Erika Henningsen, who has her own Fey connection, having appeared in ‘Girls5Eva’, which she produces.

Who is making ‘The Four Seasons’?

Tina Fey plays Ms. Norbury in 'Mean Girls' from Paramount Pictures.

Fey wrote the series alongside ‘Never Have I Ever’s Lang Fisher (who also wrote episodes of ’30 Rock’) and fellow ‘Rock’ veteran Tracey Wigfield.

While it might have expected to end up at somewhere like Peacock (given that it’ll be produced by Universal Television), the project became the subject of a bidding war that Netflix won. The company is also not that much of a surprise, since it also carried Fey’s ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ when NBC turned it down and rescued ‘Girls5Eva’ from cancellation at Peacock for its third season, which launched recently.

And because he made the movie, Alda gets an executive producer credit alongside Marissa Bregman, daughter of the film’s producer, Martin Bregman.

Netflix has ordered eight episodes of the series, and the cameras should be rolling later this year.

Where else is Will Forte showing up?

'Thelma the Unicorn'. Photo: Netflix.

Forte is the voice of Otis in yet another Netflix project, ‘Thelma The Unicorn,’ and also has a vocal role in upcoming Pixar Disney+ series ‘Win or Lose’ and Prime Video’s ‘Sausage Party: Foodtopia’.