James Marsden to Star In Adapted Mystery Comedy Series BAD NEWS DADS at Apple TV+

James Marsden (Paradise, Jury Duty) has signed on to star in and executive produced a half-hour comedy at Apple TV+ titled Bad News Dads. It comes from You’re the Worst creator Stephen Falk, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television where Greg Berlanti is under an overall deal.

Based on the upcoming novel by Adam Frost, Bad News Dads is about an inept men’s baseball rec league team where one of the players’ wives dies in a suspicious accident, and the friendship-starved Ben (Marsden) leads two of his teammates in an impromptu and often misguided investigation into what they increasingly come to think was murder.

Deadline reports that while the title and baseball team setting are clearly a wink to Bad News Bears, the book is an original idea in a different genre that has no connection to the classic sports movie. Frost’s Bad News Dads will be published April 6, 2027 by Simon Schuster/Atria/Emily Bestler Books.