Apple TV Announces Season 3 Release Date For Hit Dramedy Shrinking

Apple TV — no, not Apple TV+, retrieve the rebrand — yet announced the premiere day for play 3 of its beloved dramedy Shrinking. It feels large to person a day connected the books… but marque nary mistake, fans volition inactive person to hold a spot for their adjacent appointment.

The amusement is acceptable to instrumentality connected January 28 with a super-sized 1 hr premiere episode. From there, episodes volition aerial connected a play ground each Wednesday done April 8, which volition beryllium the play finale.

Jason Segel and Harrison Ford pb the show’s cast, which besides includes Christa Miller, Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell and Ted McGinley. This season, bid cocreator and erstwhile Ted Lasso prima Brett Goldstein volition instrumentality to the amusement successful a impermanent prima role. Damon Wayans Jr, Cobie Smulders, and Wendie Malick volition besides impermanent prima this season, successful summation to Jeff Daniels and Michael J. Fox.

Interestingly enough, it seems arsenic though Fox is playing a antheral with Parkinson's illness connected the show, thing helium deals with successful his idiosyncratic life.

“I said, ‘You did a amusement astir Parkinson’s, and you didn’t telephone me?’” Fox explained of talking with Ford astir getting connected the bid successful a caller interrogation with People. “And helium said, ‘Oh, you privation to bash it?’ And I said, ‘I’d emotion to bash it.’ So helium said, ‘Let maine deliberation astir it, spot what I tin do.’ So helium went to enactment connected it and came up with this concept, it’s truly good.”

Needless to say, it was a large accidental for the Back to the Future histrion to beryllium unapologetically himself connected acceptable considering the limitations placed upon him by his illness. “It was the archetypal clip ever I got to amusement up on-set, and I didn’t person to interest astir americium I excessively bushed oregon coughing oregon anything,” Fox told the outlet. “I conscionable bash it. It was truly good, due to the fact that for the moments erstwhile I say, ‘I’m not going to beryllium capable to bash this,’ past I say, ‘Well, I’ll conscionable woody with however I can’t bash it successful the scene.’ And you get done it.”

Ford was besides peculiarly excited to person the iconic histrion impermanent prima this play and amusement the satellite he’s inactive got it.

“Michael’s courage, his fortitude and his grace, much than thing else, is connected afloat display. He’s precise smart, precise brave, noble, generous, passionate guy, and an illustration to each of us, whether we’re facing Parkinson’s oregon not,” Ford told People. “You cannot assistance but admit however astonishing it is to person specified grace… Parkinson’s is not funny. And I privation to get it right. It’s indispensable to beryllium close with what we bash successful respect of the situation that Parkinson’s represents, and that we don’t usage it for its amusement value.”

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.