Last year, Netflix ordered a half-hour comedy series based on Justin Simien’s 2014 film Dear White People, and today the series got a trailer and premiere date. The show will debut on Netflix Friday, April 28th, just a week after the premiere of Bill Nye Saves the World on the 21st. Check out a teaser […]
Continue ReadingBill Nye’s upcoming Netflix series just got a premiere date and its first trailer. Ordered to series back in August, each episode of Bill Nye Saves the World will “tackle a topic from a scientific point of view, dispelling myths, and refuting anti-scientific claims that may be espoused by politicians, religious leaders or titans of […]
Continue ReadingBack in October, Comedy Central ordered a 15-minute series from Doug Benson called The High Court, where Benson stars as “Judge Doug” and rules on real small claims court cases “before retiring to his chamber with a guest bailiff to get very stoned and deliberate on the matter.” Throughout the 10-episode debut season, Benson will […]
Continue ReadingTransparent creator Jill Soloway has a new Amazon show set to debut in a few months. The streaming network announced today that Soloway’s series I Love Dick will first premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday followed by its Amazon debut on Friday, May 12th. Ordered to series back in September, the series is […]
Continue ReadingTracey Wigfield’s show produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock just got its first trailer. Ordered to series back in May, Great News follows “a mother-daughter relationship that is challenged when an overly involved New Jersey mom (Andrea Martin) interns at her daughter’s (Briga Heelan) workplace, a cable news network.” Nicole Richie, John Michael Higgins, […]
Continue ReadingLast year, Netflix ordered a new comedy starring Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant called Santa Clarita Diet, and thanks to the full trailer released today, we finally know what, exactly, Barrymore’s character’s new diet consists of: human flesh. Barrymore and Olyphant play “married couple Joel and Sheila, realtors leading a vaguely discontented lives in the […]
Continue ReadingAmy Sedaris is headed to truTV. The network recently ordered 10 episodes of an untitled half-hour scripted comedy series from Sedaris, which will start production sometime this summer. Here’s more info on the show from truTV’s press release: In the Untitled Amy Sedaris Project, Sedaris will apply her sincere yet distinctive brand of silliness to […]
Continue ReadingT.J. Miller’s The Gorburger Show has gone from web series to HBO pilot to, now, Comedy Central’s newest show. According to The Wrap, the network revealed at TCA today that it’s given the show an eight-episode series order. Here’s the logline: After invading a Japanese television variety show and enslaving its staff, a big blue […]
Continue ReadingPete Holmes and Judd Apatow’s new HBO show Crashing debuts next month, and today the network released the full trailer. Holmes stars in the show as “a standup comic who discovers that his wife is unfaithful, leading him to reevaluate his life amidst the New York City comedy scene,” and Lauren Lapkus, Sarah Silverman, Artie […]
Continue ReadingMike Judge has a new animated series headed to Cinemax. According to Deadline, the network has given an eight-episode series order to Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus, a half-hour animated comedy that “chronicles the tales of some of country music’s most eccentric characters.” Judge co-created the series with Richard Mullins and Dub […]
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