Beck Bennett To Star In Ski Resort Comedy In Works At FX, In Reunion With ‘SNL’ Duo Anna Drezen & Paul Briganti

EXCLUSIVE: Saturday Night Live alums Anna Drezen, Paul Briganti and Beck Bennett are developing a half-hour comedy series at FX, sources told Deadline.

Bennett will star in the project as a disgraced Olympic skier who is forced to save his family’s failing Aspen resort – which will be an uphill battle because his only skill is sliding down a mountain on sticks.

The series comes from Lionsgate and Point Grey, and if the project moves forward, we hear, Drezen will showrun the series, and Briganti will direct.

FX declined to comment.

During their overlapping years on SNL, Bennett, Drezen, and Briganti collaborated on a number of sketches, in particular pre-taped sketches and commercial parodies such as The Baby Step.

Drezen is the creator, showrunner, and executive producer of Freeform, Hulu, and 20th’s Television’s first animated comedy series, Praise Petey. Prior to that, she was head writer at NBC’s Saturday Night Live, the long-running late-night sketch show now in its 52nd season. Currently, Drezen is the co-EP for Netflix’s upcoming animated animal comedy Mating Season, and she is the writing supervisor for John Mulaney’s Netflix series Everybody’s in LA. Her recent series writing credits also include the TBS series Miracle Workers; Peacock’s Girls5eva; and she was a co-EP on Will Arnett’s Netflix series Murderville. She is repped by WME, Mosaic, and lawyer Melissa Fox.

Briganti is a director and producer best known for his work on Saturday Night Live, where he helmed short films and commercial parodies. Additionally, he directed the Judd Apatow-produced feature Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain, starring in the SNL sketch group. His TV directing credits also include episodes of truTV’s At Home With Amy Sedaris and the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Most recently, Briganti sold a half-hour comedy to Hulu starring Jake Shane that Briganti will direct. He is also attached to direct Non-Refundable, an upcoming Netflix rom-com. Briganti is repped by WME, Mosaic, and lawyer Grace Kallis.

Bennett was a featured player on SNL beginning with Season 39, before joining as a main cast member in 2015. He left the show in Season 46, but made an uncredited appearance in Season 50 as Vladimir Putin, one of his most popular characters. Since then, he’s lent his voice to a variety of shows, and notably played Steve Lombard in 2025’s Superman. He will again play Steve in the upcoming Superman film Man of Tomorrow, which will hit theaters in 2027. Bennett is repped by UTA.