Tina Fey is putting together the Netflix series “The Four Seasons” based on the 1981 movie of the same name.
Tina Fey launching ‘Four Seasons’ series
Steve Carell and Will Forte also are part of the cast.
By Rosa Cartagena
February 13, 2025 at 7:40PM
She is the co-creator and co-writer of the rom-com, which is set to release this year. The cast includes Fey, Steve Carell and “Saturday Night Live” alum Will Forte.
Fey explained that watching “The Four Seasons” as a kid left a big impact on her.
“In 1981, when I was 11 years old, I saw a movie that really shaped my idea of what my future, grown-up life could be like. And that movie was ‘Porky’s.’”
She waited for the laugh before continuing: “Then, thankfully, I saw a second movie. It was written and directed by the great Alan Alda, and it’s called ‘The Four Seasons.’”
The eight-episode series follows three couples, all longtime friends, on four vacations together over the course of a year. Drama ensues when one husband leaves his wife and brings his younger girlfriend along in her stead.
The project has the blessing of Alda, who is serving as a producer. Fey also tapped Lang Fisher (executive producer of “Never Have I Ever”) and Tracey Wigfield (creator/producer of “Great News”), two comedy writers who previously worked on Fey’s blockbuster NBC sitcom “30 Rock.”
“Tracey, Lang, and I have talked about the show being a love letter to long-term relationships, both platonic and romantic, because your life is ideally more than just the person you’re married to,” Fey said in a recent interview with the Netflix publication Tudum.
“Sometimes when you are struggling with something with just your spouse, you need a group of friends to bring humor to it. Those friendships really help marriages, I think. Having a person who just fulfills a part of you that your spouse can’t quite [fulfill] is very important.”
In the years since finishing “30 Rock,” Fey created “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (on Netflix) and the latest iteration of her iconic original comedy “Mean Girls,” which was turned into a musical, and then into a movie in which Fey reprised her role as math teacher Ms. Norbury. She starred in the 2020 animated film “Soul” and Kenneth Branagh’s 2023 murder mystery “A Haunting in Venice.”
The former “SNL” star — who recently toured with her “SNL” co-star Amy Poehler — has been one of the candidates rumored to be a potential replacement when “SNL” showrunner Lorne Michaels eventually retires.
