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Apple TV Plus: Will comedy get a big cut of the $1 billion pie?

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Apple TV Plus is now official! Apple already has plans to spend a reported $1 billion in original content from Kumail Nanjiani, Steve Carell, James Corden, and other celebrities. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the new streaming content service at the company’s It’s Show Time keynote address on Monday. The company does not seem like it will ease slowly into the streaming game. Apple TV Plus will launch this fall. While $1

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Steve Carell returns to TV…Apple TV

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Nearly a decade after retiring his beloved Michael Scott character from NBC’s The Office, Steve Carell is returning to television. The Golden Globe winner is back, this time courtesy of Apple. He’ll star opposite Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon in a currently untitled drama that gives a behind-the-scenes look at the competitive landscape of morning television. Carell joins the series inspired by CNN anchor Brian Stelter’s book Top of the

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Apple orders immigration anthology TV series from Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani

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Immigration is front and center of America’s conversation right now. The biggest, saddest immigration story is happening in Texas, where the Trump Administration is building new concentration camps for the babies and young children separated from their parents when they are captured trying to cross the border without papers. Kumail Nanjiani has lived a much […]

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Apple Orders Animated Musical Comedy ‘Central Park’ from ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Creator Loren Bouchard

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While Amazon is turning to the talent at BoJack Horseman for its first-ever animated series, Apple is turning to the minds behind Bob’s Burgers. According to Deadline, Apple has given a double-season, straight-to-series order to an animated musical comedy from Loren Bouchard, Bob’s Burgers executive producer Nora Smith, and Josh Gad called Central Park, which […]

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Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon Developing ‘Little America’ Anthology Series at Apple

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The Big Sick’s Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon have a new project in the works at Apple. According to Deadline, Apple has put into development a half-hour anthology series called Little America. Written by Lee Eisenberg (The Office, SMILF), the series is described as “a small, collective portrait of America’s immigrants — and thereby […]

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Kristen Wiig will star in a sitcom for Apple TV

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Apple’s launch into original TV/streaming programming continues, with the announcement late last week that Kristen Wiig will star in a half-hour sitcom for them, executive produced by Reese Witherspoon and her production shingle. Wiig starred for seven seasons on Saturday Night Live and earned four Emmy nominations during that time. She also received an Academy […]

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Kristen Wiig to Star in an Apple Comedy Series Produced by Reese Witherspoon

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Kristen Wiig has a new TV project in the works. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Apple has given a 10-episode series order to a half-hour comedy starring Wiig and produced by Reese Witherspoon based on Chris Sittenfeld’s short story collection You Think It, I’ll Say It, which is slated to hit bookstores in April. Not much else […]

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The crew of “Silicon Valley” reacts to the ridiculous iPhone X

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If Apple’s recent unveiling of the new iPhone X left you a bit underwhelmed, it turns out you are not… MORE

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