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Steve Carell Stops Being a Nice Guy and Start Smashing Things

by | March 15th, 2013

Here's Steve Carell on Conan last night finally shirking his "nice guy" image and trying out a new persona: guy who breaks mugs.

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A Guide to 'The Mindy Project's Many, Many Casting Changes

by | December 17th, 2012

Fox's The Mindy Project, one of this fall's better new sitcoms, is only nine episodes in, but the show has already gone through more changes to its central cast than most sitcoms do during their entire runs. The Mindy Project is being retooled for midseason, and another casting change, the addition of actress Beth Grant, was just announced late last week. This is all getting a little messy, so here's a complete list of The Mindy Project's casting changes so far, although it will probably be out of date by this time next week:

  • Stephen Tobolowsky replaces Richard Schiff as Dr. Schulman after the original pilot. [...]
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The 'Up All Night' Writers Had Some Crazy Ideas for Where to Take the Show

by | March 6th, 2013

NBC's Up All Night is pretty much done for, and TV Guide has a piece out today looking at the show's life and, more interestingly, its death. After NBC and the producers decided to turn it from a single-camera sitcom to a multi-camera one with a live audience, that apparently wasn't big enough of a change as several high-concept 2.0 versions of the show were pitched and even written. Here's an excerpt from the piece:

"[New showrunner Linda] Wallem and the writing staff began brainstorming ideas for the multi-camera version. One pitch placed a portal between the two worlds — the single-cam and multi-cam versions — [...]

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‘Always Sunny’ Replaces Its Entire Cast

by | September 26th, 2012

Check out this new promo for It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s upcoming eighth season, which kicks off October 11th. FX has finally given in to pressure from fans to replace the show's whole cast with obscure celebrities, and the results are pretty delightful. Warning: NSFW, HJO (Haley Joel Osment)

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'South Park' Is Doing 10 Episodes a Season Instead of 14 Starting This Year

by | January 28th, 2013

The NY Times has a nice profile of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone today and their brand new production company Important Studios. To focus on Important Studios and other non-South Park endeavors, Parker and Stone are slightly downsizing the amount of South Park episodes they're producing this year. Since 2004, they've been doing a 14-episode season – seven episodes in the spring and seven in the fall. For the upcoming 17th season, they'll be doing a 10-episode season, airing altogether in the fall with no new episodes this spring. South Park was renewed for three more seasons a while back, taking it through 2016 [...]

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