Pop Lands a Keanu Reeves Comedy Series and Syndicated Rights to The Goldbergs
Pop, which targets “modern grown-ups” in their 30s and 40s who are nostalgic for ’90s programming and stars, has landed its biggest ’90s celebrity yet as part of its new upfront slate—Keanu Reeves.
The actor, who starred in ’90s hits like Speed, Point Break and The Matrix, and made a comeback with the John Wick films, appears in one of the network’s new shows, Swedish Dicks. Airing this fall, the comedy stars Peter Stormare as an ex-stuntman who teams up with a Swedish DJ to work as private investigators in L.A. Reeves plays Stormare’s former stuntman colleague, who was thought to have died long ago in a stunt accident but is revealed to be alive, and a secret agent. (Reeves and Stormare are longtime friends who appeared together in Constantine and John Wick: Chapter 2.)
“Getting Keanu Reeves on TV is a really big deal,” said Pop president Brad Schwartz, in an upfront press briefing held in between the company’s upfront meetings with agencies. While Reeves appears in six of the first season’s 10 episodes, “he’s had so much fun doing it, that he’s going to be in every episode of Season 2,” which has already been ordered and will film this summer, said Schwartz.