Michaela Watkins & Dan Bakkedahl cast in new Freevee comedy series ‘Dinner With The Parents’

Written By Dom Dove
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The series is a US remake of the award-winning Channel 4 comedy series Friday Night Dinner.

Michaela Watkins (Casual, The Dropout) and Dan Bakkedahl (Veep) are set to lead Amazon Freevee’s series Dinner with the Parents produced by CBS Studios and Big Talk.

In the single-camera Dinner with the Parents, which has a straight-to-series order, two brothers in their 20s go to their mom (Watkins) and dad’s (Bakkedahl) for dinner each week and somehow get through it without actually, physically, dying of embarrassment.

Jon Beckerman exec produces and serves as showrunner with Big Talk’s Kenton Allen and Matthew Justice and creator of the UK series Robert Popper and Caroline Leddy. Tristram Shapeero will direct and exec produce.

The acclaimed UK series starred Tamsin Greig as the mother and Paul Ritter as the father. It ended after its sixth season following the death of Ritter.

For more information about Dinner With The Parents, please visit Deadline.

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