Old-school online comedy giant CollegeHumor is getting into the newer-school game of subscription streaming services. They just announced the launch of DROPOUT, its own ad-free, mixed-media subscription service. The cost? Free trials, of course; then $3.99 per month for the first three months; then tiered pricing: $3.99/month if you buy a year at a time, or up […]
Continue ReadingThanks to some news from Netflix today, Joel McHale gets to make more Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale. According to Variety, the streaming network has ordered six more episodes of the half-hour show, which will expand season 1 to a total of 19 episodes. The show was originally picked up for 13 episodes back […]
Continue ReadingTig Notaro heads to Netflix later this month with her new standup special Happy to Be Here, and today the streaming network dropped the trailer. Taped at the Heights Theater in Houston, the special is also directed by Notaro and counts Ellen DeGeneres as an executive producer. Notaro tackles “the comedic sides of marriage, parenting and […]
Continue ReadingNot long after Mitch Hurwitz teased that the new season of Arrested Development would drop on Netflix “real soon,” the streaming network has finally announced the premiere date. Renewed nearly a year ago, the show returns to Netflix for its fifth season on Tuesday, May 29th, just a few weeks after the re-edited version of season 4 debuted. Here’s the logline for […]
Continue ReadingThe upcoming season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt will be its last, but don’t worry – it might also head to the big screen afterward. According to Deadline, the show will wrap up its run after its fourth season of the show, which premieres its first six episodes on Netflix Wednesday, May 30th. Netflix and Universal […]
Continue ReadingHulu 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 ReadingMitch Hurwitz just dropped two big Arrested Development scoops. On Twitter, Hurwitz confirmed that season 5 of the show will debut on Netflix “real soon,” and a re-edited version of season 4, which Hurwitz revealed he was working on way back in 2014, will be available on Netflix starting this Friday. The title of the […]
Continue ReadingLast year, Vanessa Bayer, Gillian Jacobs, and Phoebe Robinson signed on to star in a Netflix comedy together called Ibiza, and today the streaming network released the trailer. Written by Lauren Kahn and directed by Alex Richanbach, the movie centers on Jacobs as “a woman who goes on a business trip to Spain to close […]
Continue ReadingBack in February, Netflix added a weekly late night series hosted by Late Night/Daily show alum and WHCD master Michelle Wolf, and over the weekend, the streaming network released the first treailer. Titled The Break with Michelle Wolf, the half-hour show counts Dan Powell (Inside Amy Schumer) and Christine Nangle (The President Show) as showrunners, […]
Continue ReadingNetflix wants a lot of Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias. According to Variety, the streaming network has ordered two standup specials from Iglesias as well 10 episodes of a multi-cam series titled Mr. Iglesias. In the series, the comedian plays “a good-natured public high school teacher who works at his alma mater. He takes on teaching gifted but misfit kids to not […]
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