The upcoming season of HBO’s Silicon Valley now has a premiere date. The network announced today that season 5 of the show, which was renewed back in May 2017, will debut Sunday, March 25th at 10:00pm. As previously announced, T.J. Miller will not appear in the next batch of episodes. The season 5 cast includes […]
Continue ReadingWhen news broke last week that FX’s critically acclaimed comedy Atlanta would finally be returning for its second season, I marked the occasion by rereading one of my favorite profiles of Donald Glover, which was published back in August 2016. Speaking to Vulture about the show’s creative priorities, Glover said the following: “The No. 1 thing we kept coming back […]
Continue ReadingThanks to victims and reporters who worked to bring long-rumored sexual assault and misconduct allegations to light against powerful men like Harvey Weinstein and Louis C.K., we’re finally beginning to see instances where men publicly question other men about their alleged behavior. Last month, John Oliver confronted Dustin Hoffman during a panel that turned into […]
Continue ReadingByron Allen has another long-term syndicated series on his hands featuring stand-up comedians for your viewing pleasure in the game show, Funny You Should Ask. The game show received a two-year extension, taking it through a fourth season in 2020-2021 and 520 episodes. “Funny You Should Ask is growing rapidly in all key metrics,” Allen said. “This […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers chats with guest Jordan Peele about attending the Golden Globes last weekend as well as being a new parent with his wife Chelsea Peretti, and the sad fact that his baby son doesn’t find him funny at all (that honor goes to Peretti). “So I’m […]
Continue ReadingJust because Trump never says “I’m sorry” doesn’t mean we can’t. Full Frontal with Samantha Bee is putting her correspondents’ mouths where TBS’s money is. Bee has sent four of her staffers — Ashley Nicole Black, Allana Harkin, Amy Hoggart, and Mike Rubens — on a worldwide apology tour. Nay, the Full Frontal Apology Race, […]
Continue ReadingLouis CK starred as the voice of a dog in the 2016 film, The Secret Life of Pets, but two other animated projects featuring the comedian’s voice have been recast or scrapped in the wake of his sexual harassment confession last fall. The Disney Channel confirmed that CK’s role of “The Horrifying Sweaty One-Armed Monstrosity” […]
Continue ReadingBill Hader’s new HBO show Barry finally has a premiere date. Ordered to series in 2016, Barry centers on Hader as the titular character, “a low-rent hitman in the Midwest. Lonely and dissatisfied in his life, he begrudgingly travels to Los Angeles to kill someone and ends up finding an accepting community in a group […]
Continue ReadingIn the opening scene of the pilot episode of Alone Together, a new comedy produced by The Lonely Island, a guy picks up a girl from her one-night stand and they talk about getting “smashed,” the walk of shame, and Boko Haram. There’s nothing entirely unusual about that for a cable sitcom, but it is […]
Continue ReadingIt’s not common for a major network to air a pilot of a show it didn’t order to series, but its 1990s-set Goldbergs spin-off is a lucky exception. According to The Hollywood Reporter, ABC will air the pilot episode of the series, titled Schooled, later this month during The Goldbergs’ regular Wednesday night time slot. […]
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