Pete Holmes’ “Crashing” gets a second season at HBO

HBO’s Crashing, the comedy from Pete Holmes and Judd Apatow that’s currently in the midst of its first eight-episode season,… MORE

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HBO Renews Pete Holmes and Judd Apatow’s ‘Crashing’ for a Second Season

Crashing is sticking around at HBO. Variety reports that the network has officially renewed Pete Holmes and Judd Apatow’s freshman comedy for a second season, though they haven’t yet revealed how many episodes the new season will include. Season 1 debuted on the network last month and currently airs on HBO Sundays at 10:00pm.

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Chris Gethard’s “Career Suicide” to debut on HBO May 6th

Today, HBO announced the air date for Chris Gethard’s latest special, Career Suicide: you can finally see the show yourself… MORE

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When Feig, Apatow, Cross, and Hodgson Spun the ‘TV Wheel’

What innovations are there in television? Multi-camera filming, laugh tracks, color, the variety show, cable, reality TV, HD, digital filming, and a handful of other landmarks (including a few major ones I’m sure I’m forgetting) that have sprung up. The point is, in nearly 100 years of television we’ve seen that it’s not a form […]

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Get a sneak peek at the second season of “Love”

What better way to celebrate a Valentine’s Day hangover than with the trailer for season two of Love, Netflix’s hilarious… MORE

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Pete Holmes gives a little insight into his new HBO show “Crashing”

In anticipation of Crashing, comedian Pete Holmes’ mostly autobiographical new show about a recently divorced stand-up setting out in the… MORE

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Netflix Renews ‘Love’ for a Third Season

A month before its season 2 premiere, Judd Apatow and Lesley Arfin’s Netflix comedy Love has already landed a renewal from the streaming network. According to The Hollywood Reporter Netflix has officially ordered a third season of the show starring Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust, which is set to debut season 2 on Friday, March […]

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Judd Apatow Is Working on a Documentary About Garry Shandling

Almost a year after his death, Garry Shandling is getting the documentary treatment from one of his biggest fans. On Twitter yesterday, Judd Apatow revealed that he’s making a documentary about Shandling, who died last March at age 66. While Apatow is still in the early stages of the project, he already has access to […]

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Chris Gethard to tape “Career Suicide” Off-Broadway show for HBO

Since October 2016, Chris Gethard has been performing his one-man show, Career Suicide Off-Broadway to rave reviews. Today HBO announced… MORE

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Chris Gethard’s “Career Suicide” will become an HBO special

Far from it, Chris Gethard’s powerful one-man show, “Career Suicide,” will give him his first HBO special because of it. HBO announced the news today. You can hear Chris Gethard tell me about his life and career on Episode #105 of my podcast, Last Things First. And you can read my review of his one-man […]

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