Daniel Radcliffe joins Tracy Morgan's new NBC comedy pilot from '30 Rock' team
The Harry Potter and Swiss Army Man actor has joined the cast of the comedy — about a disgraced former football player on a mission to rehabilitate his image — from the 30 Rock creative team. Radcliffe will play Arthur Tobin, an award-winning filmmaker who moves into Reggie's (Morgan) mansion to shoot an immersive documentary about the erstwhile star athlete.
The show hails from Morgan's 30 Rock costar Tina Fey, who will executive-produce alongside her former 30 Rock creative teammates Robert Carlock and Sam Means. Carlock and Means will also write the comedy, which has tapped Rhys Thomas as director and executive producer for the pilot episode.
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Radcliffe has worked with Fey and company before, appearing as Prince Frederick in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend.
Radcliffe's last recurring TV role was on the anthology comedy Miracle Workers. His other recent credits include the movies Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and The Lost City, and a voice role on the animated Netflix series Mulligan. He also recently completed a sold-out run of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, which earned him his first Tony Award at the 2024 ceremony as well as a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theatre Album.
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As for Morgan, his last recurring TV role was on sitcom The Last O.G. He's also set to star on the Paramount+ comedy series Crutch, premiering later this year. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly in 2018, Morgan looked back at his time with the 30 Rock team with fondness and said the show "saved" him.
"Being on that show kept me busy," he recalled. "I was sober then. I was able to do Tracy Jordan without having to have a drink. Tina Fey saw me partying at the after-parties of Saturday Night Live, so she [drew from] that. I didn't have to be in the picture — I could paint the picture. I got crazy without actually having to drink. And that saved me."
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