Apple TV Comedy ‘Protective Custody’ Rounds Out Cast With Five More Additions

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV‘s comedy Protective Custody, starring and exec produced by Ben Stiller and Benicio Del Toro, has rounded out its cast with five final additions: Pej Vahdat (Bones), Shawntay Dalon (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson), Isaac Stephen Montgomery (Lucky), Judd Goodstein (You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah), and Andrew Mayer (Wu-Tang: An American Saga).

Character details are being kept under wraps, as all have been so far. This group is set to recur alongside Janeane Garofalo. In addition to Stiller and Del Toro, previously announced series regulars include Amy Sedaris, Samson Kayo and Sonny Valicenti.

Hailing from Mike Judge, Steve Hely and Dave King, Protective Custody follows a disgraced financier accused of massive fraud who is thrown into protective custody, where he must navigate prison politics, salvage his reputation and confront the consequences of his actions while awaiting trial.

The series is co-written, co-showrun and exec produced by Judge, Hely and King, with Judge also directing. Ben Silverman, Howard Owens and Rodney Ferrell are exec producing for Propagate Content, alongside Stiller and John Lesher for Red Hour, Michael Rotenberg and Oly Obst for 3 Arts Entertainment, Del Toro, Nanette Burstein and Blair Breard.

Vahdat is repped by Neon Kite and Talent Works; Dalon is repped by BRS/Gage and Karen Forman Management; Montgomery by Iona Maclean at Zero Gravity Management and Jared Bloch at Bloch Law; Goodstein by Osbrink and Thruline; and Mayer by Take 3 Talent and Entertainment Lab.