September doesn’t just mark the start of the new fall TV season. It also heralds the start of broadcast network buying season for potential series they may need come the following fall! It’s an endless circle of money! The 2019 sitcom shopping season started early on Aug. 17 with CBS giving a put-pilot order to […]
Continue ReadingEven though Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and all of the cable channels have made the idea of a TV season seem antiquated, we still get a mini-rush at the end of September when the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC and The CW) premiere their new and returning series each fall. We’ve got two old sitcoms […]
Continue ReadingEven though Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and all of the cable channels have made the idea of a TV season seem antiquated, we still get a mini-rush at the end of September when the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC and The CW) premiere their new and returning series each fall. We’ve got two old sitcoms […]
Continue ReadingCongrats to Ego Nwodim! Saturday Night Live has announced hiring Nwodim as a new cast member for Season 44, which begins next week. From her bio at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles: Ego Nwodim is an actor-writer-improviser-cupcake connoisseur from Baltimore, MD. After graduating from the University of Southern California with a degree […]
Continue ReadingWhile the Friars Club and Comedy Central have enjoyed ribbing and roasting their famous friends for decades, for the past four years, a group of Los Angeles comedians have gone even older school, hosting live shows around LA called “Historical Roast.” In July, they went after JFK at Dynasty Typewriter. On Oct. 2, they’ll be […]
Continue ReadingThe new 2018 season of Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents… half-hour specials kicks off next Friday night, Sept. 28, 2018. They’ll air in back-to-black blocks in the 11 p.m. hour each Friday. September 28: Langston Kerman, Megan Gailey October 5: Devin Field, Emmy Blotnick October 12: Ryan O’Flanagan, Chris Garcia October 19: Tim Dillon, Sarah Tiana […]
Continue ReadingFull Frontal with Samantha Bee might not have won an Emmy this past weekend, but they’re paying it forward anyhow, with a new trivia phone game that can win you cash prizes in the hopes of encouraging voter turnout this November. Presenting…This Is Not A Game. Available in iOS and Android versions, the app runs […]
Continue ReadingUs & Them, the FOX sitcom that adapted James Corden and Ruth Jones’s British hit Gavin & Stacey, only to never air as part of its planned 2013-2014 season, will finally see the light of viewers screens thanks to Crackle. Sony owns Crackle, and Sony Pictures TV made seven episodes of Us & Them in […]
Continue ReadingWe placed two stand-up comedians in the final round of America’s Got Talent for 2018, and Vicki Barbolak and Samuel J. Comroe tried to make the most of their moments on live primetime TV on NBC. Barbolak revealed a swimsuit look, jokingly wishing this were a pageant, and told the tale of taking her father […]
Continue ReadingComedians love credits, even more than barkers outside comedy clubs love misappropriating those credits. Emmy-winning comedian ranks right up there near the top. So congratulations to John Mulaney for his Emmy-winning stand-up special on Netflix, Kid Gorgeous at Radio City. Congrats, too, to Katt Williams and Tiffany Haddish, who not only picked up their first […]
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