Another Period returns to Comedy Central for its third season tomorrow night. The early 20th century comedy created by and starring Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome follows sisters Lillian (Leggero) and Beatrice (Lindhome) Bellacourt in their quest for Edwardian-era fame. The hilarious period comedy sends up both Kardashian-style reality shows and British period dramas like […]
Continue ReadingJessica Chastain really commits to the bit! I don’t know why I’m surprised. Her whole career is based on accent work and representing extreme points of view. But I never thought Chastain could be intentionally silly. She has always struck me as some kind of porcelain egret, which maybe Julio Torres could do something with, […]
Continue ReadingApple’s launch into original TV/streaming programming continues, with the announcement late last week that Kristen Wiig will star in a half-hour sitcom for them, executive produced by Reese Witherspoon and her production shingle. Wiig starred for seven seasons on Saturday Night Live and earned four Emmy nominations during that time. She also received an Academy […]
Continue ReadingAmazon, in the wake of ousting its programming chief for sexual harassment and more, is moving forward without some of its better-loved female-fronted programming. Say what? I know. And yet. Amazon has renewed The Tick, while cancelling Tig Notaro’s One Mississippi after two seasons, and I Love Dick and Jean-Claude Van Johnson after just one. […]
Continue ReadingIf you miss The Soup, and you particularly missed Joel McHale, then Netflix has great news for you. The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale, a new weekly topical half-hour series, debuts Feb. 18, 2018, with 13 episodes ordered. It’ll tape on Thursdays and air new episodes Sundays. The official description? It’s a fast and […]
Continue ReadingThe new season of High Maintenance starts in the same spot HBO’s first season started: with the semi-protagonist weed dealer, The Guy, getting a haircut. In the HBO pilot (the series is a continuation of a web series that ran on Vimeo for 19 episodes), a haircut is a metaphor for the series’s transition to […]
Continue ReadingJessica Chastain makes her Saturday Night Live hosting debut tomorrow with musical guest Troye Sivan, and the show released a round of promos this week to get you excited. In the above clip, Chastain shows off her acting chops and attempts to teach Kenan Thompson how to play poker, and in the below promo, Chastain has […]
Continue ReadingNearly two years ago it was reported that TV Land was developing a TV comedy adaptation of the 1988 film Heathers, and now the anthology series has a trailer, premiere date, and new home. Ordered to pilot in September 2016 (the pilot was directed by Leslye Headland and written by Jason Micallef), the 10-episode hourlong series will now […]
Continue ReadingSeason 1 of Portlandia opened with a song that promised a Pacific Northwest heaven: it was like the 1990s forever, “when people were content to be unambitious, sleep to eleven, just hang out with their friends… You’d have no occupations whatsoever. Maybe you work a couple of hours a week at a coffee shop?” Now beginning […]
Continue ReadingOn last night’s episode of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Bee opened her weekly TBS show by examining how there’s already a backlash against the #MeToo movement, or as Bee jokingly calls the backlash, the #YouTooLoud movement. Bee said the “Shitty Media Men” list that was so popular and anonymous it got taken down by […]
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