Amy Poehler has signed on to make her feature directorial debut, and it’s going to be a top-notch SNL royalty reunion. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Poehler will direct, produce, and star in a Netflix comedy called Wine Country, which will also star SNL alums Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph, Paula Pell, and Emily […]
Continue ReadingNext Tuesday, Netflix bolsters its reputation as the go-to source for comedy with the release of season 2 of The Standups. The six-episode series features all-new half hours from Joe List, Aparna Nancherla, Kyle Kinane, Gina Yashere, Brent Morin, and Rachel Feinstein. What sets the show apart is its choice to shoot 30-minute sets with […]
Continue ReadingLast year, Ben Schwartz and Noël Wells signed on to star in a Netflix movie together called Happy Anniversary, and today the streaming network released the trailer and premiere date. Written and directed by Lego Batman’s Jared Stern (it’s also his directorial debut), the movie centers on Schwartz and Wells as a couple on their three-year […]
Continue ReadingLast year, Netflix added another batch of half-hour standup specials for its new series The Standups, and today the streaming network released the trailer. The comedians featured in season 2 include Gina Yashere, Rachel Feinstein, Kyle Kinane, Aparna Nancherla, Joe List, and Brent Morin, all taped at the Globe Theatre in Los Angeles. Check out the trailer above, and catch […]
Continue ReadingWhile Amazon is turning to the talent at BoJack Horseman for its first-ever animated series, Apple is turning to the minds behind Bob’s Burgers. According to Deadline, Apple has given a double-season, straight-to-series order to an animated musical comedy from Loren Bouchard, Bob’s Burgers executive producer Nora Smith, and Josh Gad called Central Park, which […]
Continue ReadingIt was perhaps overambitious to call a TV show Love. Like a show co-creator Lesley Arfin’s prior gig, Girls, the title suggests a universality that the content can’t satisfy. Love, which concludes its run with its third season (now streaming on Netflix), concerns a man and a woman (Gus and Mickey) who meet and fall […]
Continue ReadingRemember in late January when Norm Macdonald revealed on Reddit that he was in negotiations with Netflix to host a talk show, then he took to Twitter after his announcement got picked up by news sites to say we “misunderstood” him? Well, there was no misunderstanding, because Netflix and Macdonald just confirmed that the streaming […]
Continue ReadingCanadians now have another streaming platform of their own to pitch their stand-up comedy specials. CraveTV‘s first original comedy special, Darcy Michael Goes To Church, premieres Friday. It’s the first of three stand-up projects coming to CraveTV in partnership with Just For Laughs, filmed last September during the JFL42 festival in Toronto. The others star Debra […]
Continue ReadingRay Romano is the latest comedian to land a Netflix standup special. Deadline reports that the streaming network has ordered an hourlong special from Romano, who starred in Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon’s film The Big Sick last year. A release date has not yet been revealed, but surprisingly, it will make Romano’s first-ever […]
Continue ReadingAmazon has ordered its first-ever animated series. According to The Wrap, the streaming network has given a series order to a half-hour animated dramedy titled Undone, which is co-created by BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg and writer/producer Kate Purdy. The series centers on Alma, “a woman who discovers she has a new relationship with time after a […]
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