There are some great new comedy shows that we’ve been loving on streaming, Apple TV+’s Shrinking and The Big Door Prize and Netflix’s Beef, and there’s plenty more still to come this year. Apple is producing a new sitcom starring Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, and created by Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nicholas Stoller and Friends from College co-creator Francesca Delbanco. The Platonic series centres around two best friends who had a falling out that led them to grow apart for years, until they finally reconnect in middle age.

Will (Rogen) and Sylvia (Byrne) were both best friends from pretty much the moment they met in their youth, and became inseparable. But both of them experienced a rift that left them turning sour on the other and falling out, with their loving but platonic friendship left on ice. Years later, with both now grown adults in middle age and having had plenty of time spent away from each other, the two end up reconnecting and trying to repair the damage done to their old friendship. But things start going perhaps too well, and their reconnection becomes more consuming and threatens to destabilise and up end their lives. Both begin to re-evaluate their life choices, as they try to navigate their future together.

The series’ first season will consist of ten half-hour-long episodes, and further seasons are planned, but each will focus on a different couple. Rogen and Byrne previously starred together as a married couple in both Neighbours films, and are executive producers on Platonic. In addition to the main duo, the Apple series is also set to star Luke Macfarlane (Brothers & Sisters) as Charlie, Tre Hale (Love and Monsters) as Andy, alongside Carla Gallo (Neighbours), Andrew Lopez (Blockers), Alisha Wainwright (Raising Dion) and Janet Vaney (The Legend of Korra).

There’s no trailer yet (but one should be just round the corner), but there are a few first preview photos showing some insight into Rogen and Byrne’s characters. Platonic will land on Apple TV+ on 24th May, and like other Apple shows the first three episodes of the series will release simultaneously, with the rest released on a weekly basis until 12th July.

Platonic will land on Apple TV+ on 24th May
For more great shows streaming, check out our list of the best to watch in April

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