Daniel Radcliffe Cast in NBC’s Tracy Morgan Comedy Pilot

Daniel Radcliffe has joined the cast of NBC’s untitled Tracy Morgan comedy pilot.

Radcliffe plays Arthur Tobin, an award-winning filmmaker who moves into Reggie’s (Tracy Morgan) mansion to film an immersive documentary about the former star running back.

BIO

Daniel Radcliffe has just completed a sold-out and record-breaking run of Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along,” a role which garnered him a Tony Award® for Best Featured Actor in a Musical as well as a Grammy Award® nomination for Best Musical Theatre Album.

Radcliffe also starred in the titular role in “Weird: The Al Yankovic Stoy,” for which he won a Critics Choice Award and received Best Actor Emmy® and BAFTA Award nominations. Previously, he starred in the fourth series of “Miracle Workers: End Times,” the final season of TBS’s acclaimed comedy series. Radcliffe also served as executive producer throughout.

Other notable screen credits include Paramount’s “The Lost City,” opposite Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum; “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend,” alongside Ellie Kemper and Jon Hamm; Academy Award®-winning directors the Daniels’ “Swiss Army Man,” opposite Paul Dano; and true-life prison break feature “Escape From Pretoria.” Radcliffe is also widely celebrated for his starring role in all eight of the hugely successful “Harry Potter” films.

He recently executive produced the Emmy® and BAFTA Award nominated HBO feature documentary “David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived,” the true story of his close friend and former stunt double who was tragically injured on the set of “Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows: Part 1.”

UNTITLED TRACY MORGAN PROJECT

Commitment: Pilot order

Platform: NBC

Genre: Comedy

Studio: Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group

Production companies: Little Stranger, Bevel Gears, 3 Arts

EP/W: Robert Carlock & Sam Means

EP/T: Tracy Morgan

EP/NW: Tina Fey, Eric Gurian & David Miner

EP (pilot only)/D: Rhys Thomas

A disgraced former football player is on a mission to rehabilitate his image.

Note: Morgan will next star in Paramount+’s half-hour comedy series “Crutch,” which is scheduled to premiere later this year. His deal allows him to star in both projects in the future.