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Brooklyn Nine-Nine Star Chelsea Peretti Announces Exit on Twitter

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Bad news for Brooklyn Nine-Nine fans today: Chelsea Peretti announced that she will not be returning for the saved sixth season of the beloved police sitcom. At least not as a series regular. However, showrunner Dan Goor assured fans that we will 100% see Gina on NBC at some point. “I mean, she got run over by a frickin’ bus, and she only missed like a week of work.” “I

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Zainab Johnson on Late Night with Seth Meyers

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Zainab Johnson grew up Muslim with lots of siblings. But you may not recognize her if you’d seen her for the seven years she walked around with a shaved head. Yes, there’s a lot to cover here, and Johnson does in this set from Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. Roll the clip!

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Adam Driver’s first “Saturday Night Live” promos are here, kicking off season 44

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This weekend Adam Driver is back in the hosting seat for the season 44 kick off of Saturday Night Live.… MORE

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Comedians making TV network deals for the 2019 season

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September doesn’t just mark the start of the new fall TV season. It also heralds the start of broadcast network buying season for potential series they may need come the following fall! It’s an endless circle of money! The 2019 sitcom shopping season started early on Aug. 17 with CBS giving a put-pilot order to […]

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This week on TV: SNL returns and the half hours begin

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Buckle up! Because fall TV is officially back this week with most of the network comedies returning to air. CBS… MORE

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Vicki Barbolak and Samuel J. Comroe perform on the finals of America’s Got Talent 2018

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We placed two stand-up comedians in the final round of America’s Got Talent for 2018, and Vicki Barbolak and Samuel J. Comroe tried to make the most of their moments on live primetime TV on NBC. Barbolak revealed a swimsuit look, jokingly wishing this were a pageant, and told the tale of taking her father […]

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This week in Comedy: Che and Jost host the Primetime Emmys

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This week, Saturday Night Live co-head writers are going to take a stab at co-hosts as well. The Weekend Update… MORE

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Team Coco celebrates 25 years of Conan with re-release of O’Brien’s Late Night debut

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Ah, Sept. 13, 1993. We were all so much younger then. Can you believe nobody knew who Conan O’Brien was, nor did they give him much of a shot of holding onto Late Night after being named David Letterman’s successor? Long before Team Coco. Now they’ve finally wrested the digital archives of Late Night with […]

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Conan O’Brien to put 25 years of late night archives online starting January 2019

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Conan O’Brien is going through even more of a late night late night transition. With his late night TBS show… MORE

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Tonight Show cancels Norm Macdonald appearance after his comments in The Hollywood Reporter

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Norm Macdonald was supposed to go on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon today to promote his new Netflix talk show. But because of what Macdonald told The Hollywood Reporter in an earlier interview that published this morning, that ain’t happening. “Out of sensitivity to our audience and in light of Norm Macdonald’s comments in […]

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