Hulu just announced a bunch of news, including series orders for comedies from Mindy Kaling and Ramy Youssef. First up is an order for a limited series written and executive produced by Kaling and Matt Warburton based on the 1994 romantic comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral, which will follow “a group of friends as […]
Continue ReadingLast year, Comedy Central ordered a new scripted series from Jake Weisman, Matt Ingebretson, and Pat Bishop called Corporate, and today the network dropped the first full trailer. Weisman and Ingebretson star in the show as “two junior executives-in-training who are forced to do the dirty work of the higher-ups at one of the world’s […]
Continue ReadingABC just handed out a straight-to-series order to a new comedy from Black-ish creator Kenya Barris and Julie Bean with Alec Baldwin attached to potentially star. According to Deadline, the multi-cam series is written by Barris and Bean and centers on “a stuck-in-his-ways, opinionated, fading TV star who moves in with his progressive daughter, her […]
Continue ReadingComedy Central just gave series orders to two new shows. First up is half-hour comedy The Other Two, which is crated, written, and executive produced by Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider, who recently left their jobs as co-head writers at Saturday Night Live. Here’s the logline: Created by, written by and executive produced by Kelly […]
Continue ReadingWyatt Cenac is heading to HBO next year with his own late night show. The network announced today it’s ordered a 10-episode comedic docu-series starring Cenac with Ezra Edelman (O.J.: Made in America), John Oliver, Diane Fitzgerald (Last Week Tonight) and Hallie Haglund (Daily Show) – who will also serve as head writer — attached […]
Continue ReadingConsidering what a boys’ club late night comedy has always been, October 12, 2017 may go down as a historic day, as two new comedy talk shows hosted by women premiered last night: Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America, which airs on Hulu, and Robin Thede’s The Rundown on BET. About eight minutes into Silverman’s […]
Continue ReadingBack in May, Showtime ordered a half-hour comedy series starring and executive produced by Frankie Shaw called SMILF, and today the network released the trailer. The semi-autobiographical series is based on Shaw’s award-winning 2014 short of the same name and centers on Shaw as Bridgette, “a young woman from South Boston whose desires for relationships, sex and […]
Continue ReadingAmazon just released trailers for two of its pilots-turned-series. First up is The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which received a double-season pickup back in April not long after the pilot episode debuted on the streaming network. Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls), the series stars Rachel Brosnahan as “a 1958 New York City woman who has […]
Continue ReadingAhead of the premiere of Sarah Silverman’s new show next week, Hulu dropped a new musical promo for the series today (featuring a cameo by Parks and Rec alum Retta) where Silverman explains the true but complicated love for the US that inspired the show’s title I Love You, America. Ordered to series back in March, […]
Continue ReadingMindy Kaling and Charlie Grandy’s NBC comedy series Champions is rounding out its cast. Deadline reports that Fortune Feimster has joined the show as a series regular, joining previously announced cast members Anders Holm, Andy Favreau, J.J. Totah, Mouzam Makkar, and Nina Wadia. The single-cam series centers on Holm as Vince, “a charismatic gym owner […]
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