Steve Carell And Bill Lawrence Break Down Rooster’s Surprisingly Lonely Premise

Bill Lawrence‘s new college-set comedy “Rooster” may boast an impressive ensemble — including Steve Carell and a pair of familiar faces from the producer’s past hits in Phil Dunster (“Ted Lasso”) and John C. McGinley (“Scrubs“) — but at its core, the series is about loneliness.

That theme surfaces early in Sunday’s premiere, when Carell’s Greg admits to Professor Dylan Shepherd (Danielle Deadwyler) that even during his 25-year marriage, he often felt alone.

“What I love about the shows that Bill does is that you’ll have that thing thematically — like those elements to a scene or to a storyline — and then…