By Variety | Created at 2024-12-28 20:02:39 | Updated at 2024-12-29 11:47:41
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Hulu has released the first teaser trailer for its new half-hour sports comedy “Chad Powers” starring Glen Powell, who also serves as co-creator with Michael Waldron. Executive produced by Super Bowl Champion Peyton Manning through his Omaha Productions banner, the series is set to premiere in Fall 2025.
The show follows Powell as Russ Holliday, a once NFL-bound college quarterback who tanks his career after some behavioral misconduct. In a desperate attempt at a comeback, “he disguises himself and walks onto a struggling Southern football team as the talented, affable Chad Powers,” according to an official description.
The 14-second teaser features Powell as both Holliday and Powers, providing a look at the exaggerated prosthetics as well as Powell’s skills on the field. “I got something coming up,” says Powell as Holliday in the teaser. “Something kinda big.”
The series is based on a 2022 sketch produced by Omaha Productions and ESPN+, in which Peyton Manning’s brother, NFL quarterback Eli Manning, disguises himself and participates in walk-on tryouts for Penn State’s football team.
Other cast members include Perry Mattfeld as Ricky, Quentin Plair as Coach Byrd, Wynn Everett as Tricia, Frankie A. Rodriguez as Danny and Steve Zahn as Jake Hudson.
Executive producers include Eli Manning, as well as Omaha Productions’ Jamie Horowitz, Ben Brown and ESPN. Waldron and Adam Fasullo are executive producing for Anomaly Pictures. Luvh Rakhe will executive produce and Tony Yacenda will serve as director and executive producer. Powell also serves as executive producer under his production co-banner Barnstorm Productions.
Check out the teaser trailer below.
