Rob Corddry (“Childrens Hospital,” “Bookie”) is set to join AMC’s Silicon Valley project from “Succession” and “Bad Sisters” writer Jonathan Glatzer, alongside stars Billy Magnussen (“Made for Love”) and Sarah Goldberg (“Barry”).
Corddry is a series regular on the show, playing the character Tom Ruffage. The untitled series which is about a tech CEO (played by Magnussen) and his ‘performance psychologist’ (played by Goldberg). He was most recently seen on Max’s Chuck Lorre comedy “Bookie,” starring Sebastian Maniscalco, which was just canceled after two seasons.
Corddry was behind the fan favorite short-form series “Childrens Hospital,” which became a hit for Adult Swim and earned him four Emmys. (The show also spawned the spinoff “Medical Police” on Netflix.) Corddry is also known for starring opposite Dwayne Johnson in HBO’s “Ballers,” and as a correspondent on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” He was one of the co-hosts of “Top Gear America” and he has hosted the podcast “Amy Always Wins” since 2023.
In film, he’s starred in “Hot Tub Time Machine,” “The Way Way Back,” “80 for Brady,” and next up, “Kissinger Takes Paris.”
As for the Glatzer project, which hails from AMC Studios, the drama was first given a greenlight by AMC and sister streamer AMC+ last June. This reps the first show Glatzer created that has been picked up to series. Besides Glatzer, Gina Mingacci (“Killing Eve”) is also an EP.
The logline for the show says it’s set “inside the bubble of Silicon Valley, amid misguided corporate cultures, moony innovation labs and cutthroat private high schools.” The series centers on a scandal sparked by “the exploitation of personal data which unravels out of a rift between a self-appointed ‘inventor of the future’ tech CEO and his self-serving ‘performance psychologist.’ This act of corruption quickly spirals out of control for all involved, exposing the absurdities of ambition, corporate ethics, and the fallibility of the people who are shaping the future of our world.”
Corddry is repped by Buchwald, Artists First and Hansen Jacobsen.