Oscar-nominated “Philomena” starย Steve Coogan has replacedย Philip Seymour Hoffman in Showtime’s “Happyish.”
Showrunners originally planned to center the half-hour comedy series around Hoffman, but it was thrown into disarray in February when the Oscar-winning actor died of aย lethal combination of cocaine, heroin and other drugs. As TheWrap reported in July, Showtimeย president David Nevins said he was willing to recast the role for another actor.
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Coogan will play Thom Payne, a 44-year-old guy whose life is turned upside down after he’s forced to work under a young, overachieving boss in a nearly incomprehensible digital world, with the premise of the show being that “happyish” may be about as much as he can expect from his life.