Ben Stiller has found his next TV project - both behind and in front of the camera. The Severance executive producer and director is set to star in a dramedy called The Band for HBO. The project, from Search Party co-creators Sarah Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers,

HBO is developing 'The Band,' an hourlong dramedy series starring Ben Stiller as a Simon Cowell-esque character in the music industry.

Ben Stiller is attached to star in a new music industry drama series currently in the works at HBO. The series, titled "The Band," will see Stiller star as Oscar, a pop impresario and talent mogul beset by scandal who is tasked with forming a new act in order to save his career - and perhaps his soul,

Stiller, who infamously left "Saturday Night Live" after only a few episodes to create his own 1990 sketch series "The Ben Stiller Show," is set to lead HBO series "The Band," whi