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Viceland orders Diplo comedy starring James Van Der Beek
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The “Dawson’s Creek” alum is set to star in a scripted series in which he’ll play a fictional version of the DJ Diplo. The show, titled “What Would Diplo Do?,” has been greenlit with an initial six-episode order, Variety has confirmed.
The projects marks Viceland’s first-ever scripted series and first comedy for the Vice Media and A+E Networks cable network.
“What Would Diplo Do?” is based on “A Day in the Life,” an online concert promo for Diplo’s Mad Decent Block Party, which featured Van Der Beek playing Diplo. The same team behind the Viceland series produced that digital short. (Watch the promo below.) Instead of actually playing Diplo, in the TV series, Van Der Beek will play a version of the DJ in a “collection of parables about life as told through the eyes of a guy who can bring 60,000 people to their feet, but kind of sucks one-on-one,” according to Deadline, which first broke news of the project.
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