HBO is heading to Florida for its latest quirky comedy series. The network is set to launch It’s Florida, Man, a show from Danny McBride’s Rough House Pictures and Range Studios, the production arm of the Eastbound and Down co-creator’s management company.
The series premieres on Friday, October 18, at 11 p.m., and will feature six episodes in its first season. According to Warner Bros. Discovery, the show will showcase real-life-inspired stories from the Sunshine State, featuring mermaids, witches, extreme fantasies, feral bunnies, and alligators.
Each episode will include a host of guest stars. Over two dozen throughout the series including Anna Faris, Randall Park, Jake Johnson, Jon Gries, Sam Richardson, Ego Nwodim, Juliette Lewis, and Simon Rex. The show is created by Range Studios’ President of Non-Scripted TV Mark Herwick and Jeff Tomsic, the director of the 2018 film Tag starring Ed Helms, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Hannibal Buress, and Johnson. Tomsic will also direct the series.
Executive producers include Herwick, Tomsic, Danny McBride, and Brandon James for Rough House Pictures, along with Bryan Storkel.
The trailer has officially been released, and viewers were quick to share their thoughts. “IM ON BOARD LETS GO!!” one person wrote in the comments. “This looks very entertaining,” another added. “This will be an American History Treasure,” someone else said.
Take a look at the trailer below.
Florida Man has been a popular topic for some time. Last year, the Florida Man Games competition emerged, celebrating real-life examples of the decade-old Florida Man meme, which originated from the now-defunct Florida Man X account that highlighted bizarre news stories from the state.
Pete Melfi, the event’s organizer and owner of Florida digital news outlet The 904 Now, told the Orlando Sentinel that the event started as a “0.5K Beer Run” but evolved into a full tournament as more games were added.
The next Florida Man Games will be held on March 1 next year. Teams of five will compete in events such as beer belly sumo wrestling, a pool noodle mud fight, a “category 5 cash grab” (where contestants grab money inside a wind machine), and an obstacle course where competitors must evade arrest by real police officers. After submitting videos explaining why they should be chosen, 16 teams will be selected to participate in the main events. Other attendees can also join in with games like a mechanical gator and an obstacle course.
