Bassem Youssef and Larry Wilmore are teaming up for a new comedy at ABC. Variety reports that the network has put into development an untitled single-cam comedy written and executive produced by Youssef and Wilmore about a Middle Eastern American family with superpowers. Here’s the logline: The untitled series centers on the Sharif family, an ordinary […]
Continue ReadingLate Night writer/performer Amber Ruffin might be getting her very own show on NBC. Deadline reports that the network has put into development a series from Ruffin and Legends of Chamberlain Heights co-creator Michael Starrbury called Going Dutch, which is based on Ruffin’s life and “explores what happens when a woman who moves abroad to […]
Continue ReadingThe Big Bang Theory’s Simon Helberg is behind a new comedy in the works at CBS. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network has put into development a workplace ensemble comedy from Helberg called Need to Know. The multi-cam comedy will be set “in the top secret training video department at the CIA.” Scott Weinger and Zach […]
Continue ReadingAmy Poehler has another TV comedy project in the works. According to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC has given a put-pilot commitment to an untitled family comedy executive produced by Poehler and written by New Girl writer/producer Kim Rosenstock that centers on “a newly single mother who is forced to rely on the last people she […]
Continue ReadingHello, and come in, please! We’re so glad you accepted our invitation to lunch. Can I get you some water or iced tea? We might have a beer or two in the fridge, and if you want ’em, they’re yours. So, this is our home—and, again, thank you for agreeing not to bring your daughter […]
Continue ReadingKevin Hart’s standup series Kevin Hart Presents: Hart of the City returns to Comedy Central next month. The network just announced that the 8-episode season starring Hart, Joey Wells, and Harry Ratchford will debut Friday, November 3rd at 11:00pm and will include stops in Phoenix, Seattle, Detroit, Boston, and more. Each episode follows the hosts […]
Continue ReadingWhen standup comic Corinne Fisher’s boyfriend waited for her to buy his lunch at Panera Bread and then promptly dumped her, her heartbreak became oddly fortunate. It inspired the idea for her podcast, Guys We Fucked, which she hosts with her comedy partner, Krystyna Hutchinson. With the subtitle “The Anti Slut-Shaming podcast,” episodes of GWF […]
Continue ReadingAmazon premieres three new comedy pilots next month. According to Deadline, the streaming network announced its fall pilot lineup, which includes the Glenn Close-starring Sea Oak from George Saunders announced back in June as well as Diarra Kilpatrick’s Detroit-set comedy The Climb and the Bobcat Goldthwait-directed Love You More starring Bridget Everett. Here’s more info on each […]
Continue ReadingPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. As readers of this column are well aware, I am something of a crazed super-fan of The Complete Woman, Amanda Lund’s podcast-miniseries masterpiece take on the fascinatingly anti-feminist, anti-woman, anti-human advice manuals of Marabel Morgan, a mostly forgotten figure today but […]
Continue ReadingMike Schur has another television project in development. According to The Hollywood Reporter, ABC has given a put-pilot commitment to a single-camera comedy executive produced by Schur and written by bestselling author Shea Serrano based on Serrano’s life “growing up in a family with five uncles who all have different perspectives on manhood.” The untitled […]
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