Jason Bateman Is Not Useful in NBC Sports activities’ US Open Advert

The pair starred collectively in Arrested Improvement, and Lee mentioned their real-life dynamic is harking back to the banter the 2 shared within the present.

“They actually fell right into a cadence,” mentioned Lee, including the 2 are avid golf followers in actual life.

The primary spot rolled out within the latter components of the Kentucky Derby broadcast earlier this month. The second promo debuted throughout the Indy 500 and featured the celebs on a placing inexperienced, with a reference to “No Touching” as a nod to Arrested Improvement.

NBCUniversal selected to roll the spots out strategically throughout a few of its largest sports activities properties. The Derby averaged 15 million viewers (probably the most watched occasion on TV because the Tremendous Bowl), and final week’s Indy 500 pulled in 5 million common viewers.

NBC Sports activities shot the promos on Might 1 on the Los Angeles Nation Membership. Lee mentioned it was one of many first instances the membership had allowed any filming carried out on the course.