Every great sitcom needs a great premise, and Chad Powers 's is a doozy; it’s essentially Friday Night Lights meets Mrs. Doubtfire . Eight years after a career-ending mistake, washed-up football player Russ Holliday is scraping together a living working for his dad, an Oscar-nominated movie makeup artist. One day, he has the bright idea to use his dad’s prosthetics to disguise himself as a different person — the eponymous Chad Powers — and join a college team as a walk-on player.

It’s a perfect comic premise with unlimited storytelling potential. It gives Glen Powell a chance to play two characters in one, and sets up a goldmine of possible conflicts, complications, and misunderstandings . Russ has to keep his Chad alter ego a secret from his dad, and Chad has to hide his tr

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