(*3*)EXCLUSIVE: 5-time Emmy winner Michael J. Fox is returning to performing with a significant guest-starring position on the upcoming third season of Apple TV+’s hit comedy comedy collection Shrinking, toplined by Jason Segel and Harrison Ford.

Particulars across the position are being stored below wraps however it could be related to the character arc of Ford’s therapist Paul Rhoades. It was revealed on the finish of Season 1 that Paul has Parkinson’s, a illness Fox has been battling for 3 and a half a long time.

This marks a reunion for Fox and Shrinking co-creator/govt producer Bill Lawrence. Fox headlined Lawrence’s first collection as a creator, Spin Metropolis, for 4 seasons earlier than leaving when his signs grew to become extra severe. The ABC comedy landed Fox his fifth Emmy award; he had gained 4 for Household Ties.

Since then, Fox was the star of The Michael J. Fox Present and has recurred on such collection as The Good Spouse, Lawrence’s Scrubs, Rescue Me and Boston Authorized, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Designated Survivor, incomes him eight extra Emmy nominations. This marks his first performing position since reprising his Good Spouse character on spinoff The Good Combat in 2020.

It additionally marks Fox’s return to Apple following their partnership on the award-winning documentary STILL: A Michael J. Fox Film.

Co-created by Jason Segel, Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, Shrinking follows grieving therapist Jimmy (Segel) who begins to interrupt the foundations and inform his shoppers precisely what he thinks. Ignoring his coaching and ethics, he finds himself making enormous, tumultuous adjustments to folks’s lives … together with his personal. In addition to Segel and Ford, Shrinking stars Christa Miller, Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell and Ted McGinley.

Fox joins fellow Shrinking Season 3 forged additions Jeff Daniels, who will visitor star as Jimmy’s father, Sherry Cola and Isabella Gomez.

The Emmy and SAG Award-nominated Shrinking is produced for Apple TV+ by Warner Bros. Tv, the place Lawrence and Goldstein are below general offers, and Lawrence’s Doozer Productions. Lawrence, Segel, Goldstein, Neil Goldman, James Ponsoldt, Jeff Ingold, Liza Katzer, Randall Winston, Annie Mebane, Rachna Fruchbom and Brian Gallivan function govt producers on Season 2. Ashley Nicole Black and Bill Posley are govt producers on Season 3.

Fox just lately obtained an honorary Academy Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2000, he launched the Michael J. Fox Basis for Parkinson’s Analysis, which has turn out to be the main Parkinson’s group on the planet, with over $2.5 billion raised thus far for higher remedies and a pathway to the remedy. Fox, who can be the writer of 4 bestselling books, is repped by UTA.