The second annual Now Hear This podcast festival is slated for September, and the festival just released its 2017 lineup. This year it will take place in New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and run from Friday, September 8th through Sunday the 10th, and among the featured podcasts are Comedy Bang! Bang!, How […]
Continue ReadingThis year ABC’s Downward Dog became the first network sitcom ever to be accepted at the Sundance Film Festival. Not bad for a show about a talking dog. While the talking-animal concept is one critics generally deride, it’s the opposite for Downward Dog, which has received critical acclaim for the way it smartly portrays the […]
Continue ReadingW. Kamau Bell’s CNN show just got another season. CNN announced today that it’s officially renewed Bell’s docu-series United Shades of America for a third season. Season 2 of the show premiered last month is currently airing Sunday nights on CNN. For more on United Shades, check out our interview with Bell about the new […]
Continue ReadingPFFR’s Vernon Chatman has a new project in the works at Adult Swim. The network announced today that it’s given a pilot order to a stop-motion show created by Chatman called The Shivering Truth, and Chatman, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Starlee Kine will voice the main cast. Here’s the logline for the show, in […]
Continue ReadingToday TBS announced several new comedy projects in the works. First up is a Lorne Michaels-produced anthology comedy series created by Simon Rich called Miracle Workers, which will star Daniel Radcliffe and Owen Wilson. TBS has ordered seven episodes of the series, which is set in Heaven and based on Rich’s novel What in God’s Name. […]
Continue ReadingArrested Development is officially returning for season 5. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming network confirmed today that a fifth season of Arrested Development is in the works, and the entire cast — Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, Will Arnett, Tony Hale, Portia de Rossi, David Cross, and Alia Shawkat — […]
Continue ReadingIt’s impossible to overstate just how symbolically awful Jimmy Fallon’s September Tonight Show interview with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump became in the weeks and months after it aired, and if Fallon’s current ratings struggles against Late Show’s Stephen Colbert are any indication, his preference for silly games and late night escapism have proven to be a huge […]
Continue ReadingConan O’Brien is sticking around at TBS. The network announced today that it’s closed a four-year deal with O’Brien, which includes a renewal for his late night show through 2022, more TV projects produced through his company Conaco, and the possibility of expanding Team Coco content to “digital and branded content, podcasting, mobile gaming, pay […]
Continue ReadingHulu’s comedy Casual returns for a new season next week, and today the streaming network dropped the first trailer. The show was renewed last year, and guest stars slated to show up throughout the new season include Judy Greer, Katie Aselton, Chace Crawford, Jamie Chung, Eliza Coupe, Kyle Bornheimer, and Zak Orth. Check out the […]
Continue ReadingJimmy Kimmel and Justin Theroux are teaming up for a special in the works at ABC. The network announced today that it’s ordered an hourlong live “sitcom special” from Kimmel and Theroux. The untitled special — referred to as Untitled Kimmel and Theroux Project in the press release — will “bring viewers classic sitcom scripts […]
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