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Adam Scott Has Another 'Greatest Event in Television History' with Amy Poehler Out June 6th

by | April 10th, 2013

Last year, Adam Scott created an 11-minute TV special for Adult Swim called The Greatest Event in Television History, in which he and Jon Hamm recreated the title sequence to the cheesy '80s detective show Simon & Simon, shot for shot. Scott revealed last night on Jimmy Fallon that he has a follow-up special set to premiere on Adult Swim June 6th and that it'll star himself, Amy Poehler, and Horatio Sanz. Scott said they'll be recreating a title sequence from an hour-long show but wouldn't reveal which one, explaining, "I can't say what it is because of very strict rules that I made up."

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IFC Is Officially in the Chris Gethard Business

by | August 20th, 2012

IFC is "adopting" Chris Gethard as part of their "Adopt-A-Comic" program. The program is meant to highlight comedians who fit the comedic brand of IFC. For Gethard this means hosting on-air programming and developing exclusive content for IFC.com. Most importantly, IFC will be working with Gethard to develop a comedy series based on his memoir, A Bad Idea I'm About To Do. Let's pause for a moment to revel in how exciting this is… Ultimately, IFC is taking exactly what they did with Scott Aukerman over the last two years and turning it into an official strategy. As Scott put it in our interview a few months [...]

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'Arrested Development' Starts Shooting in 4 Weeks

by | July 11th, 2012

'Arrested Development's' development is not arrested. Last night, Jason Bateman tweeted this picture along with the message: "Taken at AD mission control, today! All systems are go. Filming for the new episodes starts in four weeks. Woo!" Woo, indeed. Ron Howard added a much more adorable version of the same picture and a photo of the color index card filled writers' room. (Both of which are below.) No word yet if the writers were replaced by colorful index cards or if they're just being used to keep all the callbacks and callfowards straight. We're onboard, either way.

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