Ben Stiller and Jessica Chastain are about to be spending quite a few weeks together: The two actors will star in the Apple TV+ series The Off Weeks , TVLine has learned.

The eight-episode series follows divorced writing professor Gus Adler, who “struggles to hold things together during ‘on weeks’ when he has custody of his kids,” per the official description. “But in his ‘off weeks,’ he’s falling dangerously in love with Stella West, a mysterious woman whose arrival puts Gus’ on-week duties and off-weeks ambitions on a fatal collision course.”

Alissa Nutting ( Made for Love ) will serve as showrunner, with Michael Showalter ( The Dropout ) set to direct. Stiller and Chastain will serve as executive producers as well.

This marks Stiller’s first starring role in a scripted TV

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