Evan Kaufman can be seen plenty of times at The People’s Improv Theatre and other venues around New York City, either performing Your Love, Our Musical, or with his house improv group, Gypsy Danger. He’s also directed some national TV commercial campaigns you might have seen. But you likely definitely remember seeing him this week […]
Continue ReadingJ. Keith Van Straaten, host of the live game show and podcast for Maximum Fun, Go Fact Yourself, met up with me earlier this summer while scouting locations for taking his game show on the road to New York City. Live shows of Go Fact Yourself are happening this weekend (July 21-22) at Caveat, with […]
Continue ReadingJ. Keith Van Straaten, host of the live game show and podcast for Maximum Fun, Go Fact Yourself, met up with me earlier this summer while scouting locations for taking his game show on the road to New York City. Live shows of Go Fact Yourself are happening this weekend (July 21-22) at Caveat, with […]
Continue ReadingAmerica’s funniest home videos have a new place to earn their amateur filmmakers some laughs and some money. GSN, aka the Game Show Network, has announced it has ordered Caroline & Friends to launch this summer. Hosted by comedian Caroline Rhea, this game show will find Rhea and two of her funny celebrity friends sifting […]
Continue ReadingLast year, Comedy Central ordered a game show from Reggie Watts called Taskmaster, and today the network released the trailer and premiere date. Hosted by Watts with co-host/creator Alex Horne, the half-hour series is based on the British game show of the same name and judges “five unwitting comedians as they compete against each other with […]
Continue ReadingIf you thought it was crazy enough that a suitcase model from Deal or No Deal would become British royalty in 2018, then get ready for more craziness, because the entire game show itself is coming back with new primetime episodes by the end of the year. Without Meghan Markle. Obviously. But with Howie Mandel! […]
Continue ReadingByron Allen has another long-term syndicated series on his hands featuring stand-up comedians for your viewing pleasure in the game show, Funny You Should Ask. The game show received a two-year extension, taking it through a fourth season in 2020-2021 and 520 episodes. “Funny You Should Ask is growing rapidly in all key metrics,” Allen said. “This […]
Continue ReadingABC’s revival of The Gong Show is returning with another batch of episodes. According to The Wrap, the network has officially renewed the Will Arnett-produced series, which was originally ordered back in October 2016, for a second season, which will go into production sometime later this year. In addition to the renewal, ABC’s announcement included […]
Continue ReadingABC’s revival of The Gong Show is returning with another batch of episodes. According to The Wrap, the network has officially renewed the Will Arnett-produced series, which was originally ordered back in October 2016, for a second season, which will go into production sometime later this year. In addition to the renewal, ABC’s announcement included […]
Continue ReadingThe ABC television network may make a major production out of reviving all of our favorite game shows from the 1970s in primetime this summer. But nobody, not even the revived edition of Match Game (sorry, Alec Baldwin), has recaptured the great giddy aesthetic of Match Game like @midnight with Chris Hardwick, which ends a […]
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