Harry Styles to produce TV show based on his life
The sitcom, called ‘Happy Together, will be based on the One Direction singer’s real life living situation during the band’s formative years
The most unusual executive producer on a new fall show for CBS? Harry Styles.
Yes, that Harry Styles. The 24-year-old pop artist, the breakout star of boy band One Direction. Even the CBS scheduling chief, Kelly Kahl, clarified on a conference call Wednesday morning that it was “the singer.”
Anyway, the sitcom is called Happy Together. It stars Damon Wayans Jr. (whom CBS called “the most sought-after actor of this pilot season”) and Amber Stevens West as a 30-something, happily-married suburban couple whose lives are upended when a young pop star (Australian actor Felix Mallard) unexpectedly moves into their house.
It’s based on Styles’ real life living situation. In the first years of One Direction, as the group members were going from X Factor contestants to international sensations, Styles crashed with his friend Ben Winston, who lived in the suburbs of London with his wife. Winston, an executive producer on CBS’ Late Late Show With James Corden, will also exec produce Happy Together.
