The National’s Matt Berninger is making a TV show about himself. In an interview with Australia’s Double J radio, Berninger revealed that he’s creating the series with his brother Tom, writer Carin Besser (Berninger’s wife), and Australian filmmaker Trent O’Donnell and his wife. “We’re hoping it’s a comedy!” he said. “It’s something we’ve been cooking for a while.” Berninger continued by saying the prospective show “has a lot of the same tone” as Mistaken for Strangers, the 2013 National documentary directed by Tom Berninger. “But this, it’s more scripted than that is, and it’s not a film Tom’s making. Tom is just a subject of it. It’s not a fake documentary.” Berninger added:

I play myself and my brother plays my brother—Tom plays Tom, and Tom can't play anybody else—but then the rest of it’s all cast. And I’m in a band. Actually, Aaron helped cast the band with all the guys that were working on the Grateful Dead project together, and so it’s a bunch of guys from different bands that we’ve known and been friends with for a long time who play the band. And Aaron [Dessner] kind of is in it as a producer, sort of as himself but not really.

Dessner, who was also participating in the interview, added, “I don’t have a speaking part.” Berninger responded, “You might. We’ll see.”

Concerning a timeline, Berninger said, “It won’t see the light of day this year, so, that’s how far along it is.” Listen to the interview at the Double J website; the conversation begins around 2:07:30, and the TV talk occurs at 2:32:05.

Read Pitchfork’s 2017 interview with Matt Berninger and Aaron Dessner.

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