Daniel Bekerman’s Scythia Films will produce the dystopian satire The Comedy Hour, with Regina-born Tatiana Maslany (She-Hulk) and U.S. actor Tim Heidecker (Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie) signed on to star.

Bekerman (pictured) will produce the feature with Halee Bernard and Julian Higgins (God’s Country). The film marks the feature directorial debut of playwright and screenwriter Colby Day, writer of the forthcoming Hulu sci-fi drama In the Blink of an Eye, on which Bekerman worked as an executive producer.

Set in a collapsing, near-future U.S., The Comedy Hour centres on a late-night TV host (Heidecker) whose new, network-assigned robot co-host quickly begins to eclipse him in popularity. Maslany will play Heidecker’s long-time producer.

UTA Independent Film Group is handling worldwide distribution of the feature.

The news was first reported by Deadline.

Bekerman and Scythia are represented by WME and Goldenberg Nahmias. Day is repped by UTA, Untitled Entertainment and Yorn Levine. Higgins is with Paradigm, Good Fear Content and Gang, Tyre, Ramer. Heidecker and Maslany are represented by UTA.

Toronto-headquartered Scythia made waves in 2024 with the controversial Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice, which it coproduced with Dublin’s Tailored Films and Copenhagen’s Profile Pictures. Other recent projects from the company include the animated documentary Endless Cookie, which made its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival before going on to win an audience award at Hot Docs in Toronto and take the Grand Prix at France’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

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