The actor’s role in “Do You Want Kids?” will be recast.

Daniel Stern departs ABC comedy pilot in wake of prostitution charge

The actor's role in "Do You Want Kids?" will be recast.

By Raechal Shewfelt

Raechal Shewfelt

Raechal Shewfelt is a writer at **. She has been working at EW since 2024. Her work has previously appeared on Yahoo and in American *Journalism Review* and *The Shreveport Times*.

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January 15, 2026 10:34 p.m. ET

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Daniel Stern won't be on ABC's new comedy pilot *Do You Want Kids?* after all.

The actor's role will be recast, after he was officially charged Monday with one misdemeanor count of soliciting prostitution, ** has learned.

Deadline was the first to report the news.

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Prosecutors in Ventura County, Calif., allege that the incident occurred on Dec. 10 at a hotel in the city of Camarillo. Stern's arraignment is now scheduled for Feb. 6, according to *TMZ*.

The planned TV series is a single-camera comedy about a couple whose lives audiences see both in a world in which they have a baby and another in which they don't, *Deadline* reports.

Daniel Stern at the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

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The show will star Rachel Bloom and comedian Rory Scovel as the central couple, Bloom's Rosie and Scovel's Alex Zilbalodis. Stern had been set to play the head of the family.

EW has reached out to reps for the actor.

While Stern, 68, has worked as an actor in multiple types of projects since the '70s, his last few have been on TV.

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He was part of the cast in the fourth season of Apple TV's *For All Mankind*, which wrapped up in 2024. Stern also appeared on 10 episodes of Aidy Bryant's Hulu comedy *Shrill*, which aired for three seasons, from 2019 to 2021.

Earlier in his career, Stern provided the narration for the original version of *The Wonder Years*.

His most famous work has perhaps been in holiday favorites *Home Alone* and *Home Alone 2: Lost in New York*, in which he played the would-be burglar Marv to Macaulay Culkin's precocious foil, Kevin. He also appeared in the Billy Crystal comedy *City Slickers* and its sequel, *City Slickers 2: The Legend of Curly's Gold*, and in Barry Levinson's 1982 dramedy *Diner*.

But he's really preferred not to leave his Ventura County farm in recent years, he said in a December interview with PEOPLE. It's the reason he didn't attend events to mark the 35th anniversary *Home Alone*, he said.

"I don't leave my farm," Stern said. "It's no offense to the movie.... A phone call, Zoom call, I'm in. But... I'm a bit of a homebody."**

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