L-R: Steve Carell and John C. McGinley in 'Rooster' HBO Max SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the pilot episode of Rooster on HBO Max. Bill Lawrence's latest show Rooster, which he co-created with Bad Monkey collaborator Matt Tarses centers Ludlow College, a campus teeming with brilliant professorial minds and students eager to learn from them. It's Steve Carell's character who bridges the gap between those two groups as Greg Russo, author of the famous Rooster beach read books, who comes to guest lecture at the school where his daughter Katie (Charly Clive) teaches.