The character Griffin Mill has the same name as Tim Robbins's character in The Player, where he runs a movie studio.
Part of the show was shot at Fox Studios in Century City, CA.
In an interview in Variety, Catherine O'Hara admitted that she had an active Covid infection while shooting and that "I didn't test because we were trying to finish shooting, and we were leaving town in a day or two, so we had to shoot all those scenes."
This series marks the third collaboration between Seth Rogen and Paul Dano after the biopic films The Fabelmans (2022) and Dumb Money (2023).
The opening shot of "The Player" by Robert Altman is approximately eight minutes. The opening shot of the studio is approximately seven minutes.