Ben Stiller's getting in front of the camera for Mike Judge's new Apple comedy

Said series being Protective Custody, which Judge will be showrunning alongside previous collaborators Steve Hely and Dave King. (Which means, among other things, that this show is actually a Common Side Effects reunion, which is going to be a big selling point for fans of Adult Swim’s sadly truncated, very trippy take on the high-stakes world of Big Pharma.) The new series will star Stiller as “a disgraced financier accused of massive fraud who is thrown into protective custody, where he must navigate prison politics, salvage his reputation, and confront the consequences of his actions while awaiting trial.” 

Stiller has been back in a comedy mood lately, as he’s set to star in Apple’s upcoming “pickleball comedy” The Dink this July, before willingly subjecting himself to another Fockers movie in November. This new show apparently originated—with the not entirely inspiring pitch “Hogan’s Heroes meets The Office”—from The Office producer Ben Silverman, who recently worked with Stiller’s old pal Owen Wilson on golf comedy Stick; Judge and his team had apparently been noodling on the idea of a jail comedy, too and so a meeting of various comedy minds was held. (Stiller and Judge have never worked before in any serious capacity, although Stiller did appear in a single episode of Judge’s King Of The Hill.)