W. Kamau Bell’s CNN show just got another season. CNN announced today that it’s officially renewed Bell’s docu-series United Shades of America for a third season. Season 2 of the show premiered last month is currently airing Sunday nights on CNN. For more on United Shades, check out our interview with Bell about the new […]
Continue ReadingPFFR’s Vernon Chatman has a new project in the works at Adult Swim. The network announced today that it’s given a pilot order to a stop-motion show created by Chatman called The Shivering Truth, and Chatman, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Starlee Kine will voice the main cast. Here’s the logline for the show, in […]
Continue ReadingAlmost four years after an experimental fourth-season reunion of Arrested Development launched on Netflix, the streaming platform has announced it’ll get the gang back together for a fifth season to come in 2018. “In talks with Netflix we all felt that that stories about a narcissistic, erratically behaving family in the building business — and […]
Continue ReadingConan will reign in late-night on TBS for at least five more years, as the network just announced a deal keeping Conan O’Brien and Team Coco in the fold through 2022, along with a new 90-minute late-night block of programming for Super Deluxe, and orders for four new primetime series. Turner’s Upfronts are being held […]
Continue ReadingToday TBS announced several new comedy projects in the works. First up is a Lorne Michaels-produced anthology comedy series created by Simon Rich called Miracle Workers, which will star Daniel Radcliffe and Owen Wilson. TBS has ordered seven episodes of the series, which is set in Heaven and based on Rich’s novel What in God’s Name. […]
Continue ReadingArrested Development is officially returning for season 5. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming network confirmed today that a fifth season of Arrested Development is in the works, and the entire cast — Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, Will Arnett, Tony Hale, Portia de Rossi, David Cross, and Alia Shawkat — […]
Continue ReadingOne of the more unusual announcement out of ABC Upfronts yesterday wasn’t the Roseanne reunion — because that news leaked out a little while ago — but the live primetime special that could become a series of specials in which Jimmy Kimmel and Justin Theroux will perform episodes from old classic sitcoms. Whatchu talkin’ about? […]
Continue ReadingIt’s impossible to overstate just how symbolically awful Jimmy Fallon’s September Tonight Show interview with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump became in the weeks and months after it aired, and if Fallon’s current ratings struggles against Late Show’s Stephen Colbert are any indication, his preference for silly games and late night escapism have proven to be a huge […]
Continue ReadingConan O’Brien is sticking around at TBS. The network announced today that it’s closed a four-year deal with O’Brien, which includes a renewal for his late night show through 2022, more TV projects produced through his company Conaco, and the possibility of expanding Team Coco content to “digital and branded content, podcasting, mobile gaming, pay […]
Continue ReadingJimmy Kimmel and Justin Theroux are teaming up for a special in the works at ABC. The network announced today that it’s ordered an hourlong live “sitcom special” from Kimmel and Theroux. The untitled special — referred to as Untitled Kimmel and Theroux Project in the press release — will “bring viewers classic sitcom scripts […]
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