Tuesdays, 9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT. SERIES PREMIERE: Jan. 2, 2018

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1 LA TO VEGAS From executive producers Will Ferrell ( Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Elf ), Adam McKay ( The Big Short ), Lon Zimmet ( Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt ) and Steve Levitan ( Modern Family ), LA TO VEGAS is a workplace comedy about an airline crew and the eccentric passengers who, every weekend, take the roundtrip flight from Los Angeles to Las Vegas with one goal in mind to come back a winner. It won t be turbulence-free, but this unlikely group of lovably flawed, yet relatable, dreamers will eventually go from being strangers on a plane to a supportive, if unconventional, family well, at least from Friday to Sunday. The series stars Kim Matula ( UnREAL ), Ed Weeks ( The Mindy Project ), Nathan Lee Graham ( The Comeback, Hitch ) and Olivia Macklin ( The Young Pope ), with Peter Stormare ( The Big Lebowski ) and Emmy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Dylan McDermott ( The Practice, American Horror Story ). LA TO VEGAS is produced by 20 th Century Fox Television in association with Gary Sanchez Productions. The series was created by Lon Zimmet, who also serves as an executive producer, along with Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Chris Henchy, Owen Burke and Steve Levitan, who directed the pilot. Josh Bycel, Jonathan Fener and Jeff Morton also serve as executive producers. AIRS: Tuesdays, 9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT SERIES PREMIERE: Jan. 2, 2018 STARRING: Kim Matula (Ronnie) Ed Weeks (Colin) Nathan Lee Graham (Bernard) Olivia Macklin (Nichole) with Peter Stormare (Artem) and Dylan McDermott (Captain Dave) SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: LAtoVegasFOX / #LAtoVegas FOX WEBSITE/APP: PRESS CONTACTS: fox.com/latovegas / FOX NOW Tamara Hovsepian / FOX Tamara.Hovsepian@fox.com Shari Rosenblum / 20 th Century Fox Television Shari.Rosenblum@fox.com -FOX-

KIM MATULA (Ronnie on LA TO VEGAS) Kim Matula is best known for her work on The Bold and the Beautiful, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination.

Matula recently completed filming the upcoming feature Fighting with My Family, appearing opposite Florence Pugh, Vince Vaughn, Nick Frost and Dwayne The Rock Johnson.

2 KIM MATULA (Ronnie on LA TO VEGAS) Kim Matula is best known for her work on The Bold and the Beautiful, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. She also was seen on the cable series UnREAL. Her other television credits include Teachers, The Defenders and How I Met Your Mother. Matula recently completed filming the upcoming feature Fighting with My Family, appearing opposite Florence Pugh, Vince Vaughn, Nick Frost and Dwayne The Rock Johnson. She also starred in the feature film Dawn Patrol, opposite Scott Eastwood. She currently resides in Los Angeles. ED WEEKS (Colin on LA TO VEGAS) Ed Weeks is a British actor and performer best known for his role on The Mindy Project, opposite Mindy Kaling. He also starred as the lead of the cable television movie Project Greenlight: The Leisure Class, produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Weeks other television credits include the British television series The It Crowd, Dirty Sexy Funny, My Family and Not Going Out. Also an accomplished writer, Weeks has written on the series Hotel Trubble, Clone, The Peter Serafinowicz Show, Man Stroke Woman and Anna & Katy. As one-half of the sketch comedy act Tommy and the Weeks, Weeks has performed shows at venues across the U.K., with Tommy and the Weeks sketches also having been broadcast in the U.K. He currently resides in Los Angeles.

Graham s television credits include The Comeback, with guest roles on Scrubs, Absolutely Fabulous and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

3 LA TO VEGAS BIOS Page 2 NATHAN LEE GRAHAM (Bernard on LA TO VEGAS) Actor Nathan Lee Graham recently was seen in the film Zoolander 2. His other film credits include Zoolander, Sweet Home Alabama, Hitch and the independent films Confessions of an Action Star, Bad Actress, Trophy Kids and Migraine. Graham s television credits include The Comeback, with guest roles on Scrubs, Absolutely Fabulous and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He also appeared on the web series Hug O Gram, for which he garnered several awards. His stage appearances on Broadway include The Wild Party, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and The View Upstairs, for which Graham was nominated for the 2017 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Featured Actor. Graham s other theater credits include The Colored Museum, earning him an IRNE Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Play; the Off-Broadway production Wig Out, for which he received a Drama League Award nomination; and The Wild Party, winning him a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Performance. Graham is a graduate of Webster University in St. Louis, MO. He currently resides in New York City. OLIVIA MACKLIN (Nichole on LA TO VEGAS) Olivia Macklin recently was seen on cable s The Young Pope. Her other credits include the series Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, the film Radium Girls and the theater production Horse Girls, in which she played the lead role. Macklin is originally from Chicago, IL, and received her B.A. in performance from Fordham University in She currently resides in New York City.

LA TO VEGAS BIOS Page 3 DYLAN McDERMOTT (Captain Dave on LA TO VEGAS) Golden Globe winner and Emmy Award nominee Dylan McDermott s television credits include Ryan Murphy s drama, American Horror

nominations and an Emmy Award nomination.

4 LA TO VEGAS BIOS Page 3 DYLAN McDERMOTT (Captain Dave on LA TO VEGAS) Golden Globe winner and Emmy Award nominee Dylan McDermott s television credits include Ryan Murphy s drama, American Horror Story, and the Emmy Award-winning series The Practice, for which McDermott won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series Drama, and received two additional Golden Globe nominations and an Emmy Award nomination. McDermott s film credits include Antoine Fuqua s Olympus Has Fallen, starring opposite Morgan Freeman; the critically acclaimed indie drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower ; the comedy The Campaign, co-starring with Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis; Steel Magnolias ; In the Line of Fire, opposite Clint Eastwood; and Miracle On 34 th Street, starring with Sir Richard Attenborough. Among his theater credits are Eve Ensler s The Treatment, for which he was nominated for a Drama League Award; Nicky Silver s production of Three Changes at Playwrights Horizons; and Neil Simon s Biloxi Blues. McDermott currently resides in Los Angeles. STEVE LEVITAN (Director/Executive Producer, LA TO VEGAS) Modern Family co-creator and executive producer Steven Levitan has been making television comedies for more than 20 years. His credits include Wings, Frasier, The Larry Sanders Show, Just Shoot Me! (Creator) and Greg the Bunny, as well as several shows he d like you to forget.

LA TO VEGAS BIOS Page 4 A Chicago native and graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (The Harvard of Southwestern Wisconsin), Levitan s honors include nine Emmy Awards, five Writers Guild

5 LA TO VEGAS BIOS Page 4 A Chicago native and graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (The Harvard of Southwestern Wisconsin), Levitan s honors include nine Emmy Awards, five Writers Guild Awards, two Humanitas Prizes, a Peabody Award, four Producers Guild of America Awards, a Comedy Writer of the Year Award, three American Film Institute Awards, two Television Critics Association Awards and a Directors Guild of America Award nomination. He currently resides in Los Angeles. LON ZIMMET (Writer/Executive Producer, LA TO VEGAS) Lon Zimmet is an Emmy Award-nominated screenwriter whose credits include Happy Endings, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Superstore. A graduate of Syracuse University s Newhouse School of Communications, and a New Jersey native, he currently resides in Los Angeles. -FOX-

Bob Shayne Partial Resume AWARDS. GOTHAM IFP SCREENPLAY COMPETITION winner NAOMI WEINSTEIN - PRIVATE EYE

Bob Shayne Partial Resume AWARDS GOTHAM IFP SCREENPLAY COMPETITION winner NAOMI WEINSTEIN - PRIVATE EYE WRITERS GUILD AWARD nomination, Best TV Movie of the Year, RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES EDGAR AWARD