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NBC to Burn Off Anne Heche's 'Save Me' This Summer

by | April 16th, 2013

NBC announced its summer schedule this week, revealing that they'll be burning off its only remaining new comedy, Save Me, during the summer. Starring Anne Heche as a woman who believes God is speaking to her after she nearly chokes to death on a sandwich, Save Me looked to be one of the better comedies from NBC's 2012-13 lineup (albeit a lineup that also included 1600 Penn and Animal Practice) when the network announced its schedule last May. It's a shame that the network is just unceremoniously burning it off this summer without even giving it a chance during the traditional broadcast season, meaning that NBC probably isn't even considering the [...]

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The Birthday Boys Accept IFC's TV Show, with Help from Bob Odenkirk

by | April 1st, 2013

Here's a new video from The Birthday Boys, a sketch group who were just given a TV show by IFC. As mentioned in the video, they've chosen to accept the show from IFC, with help from expert attorney Bob Odenkirk, who's also producing the show. The Birthday Boys will premiere its 10-episode first season on IFC this October. Until then, you can just keep watching "Pooljumpers" over and over.

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Bo Burnham's MTV Show 'Zach Stone' Will Debut May 2nd

by | March 13th, 2013

MTV has set a premiere date for Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous, a new sitcom co-created by and starring comedian Bo Burnham. The show will kick off its first season on Thursday, May 2nd, at 10:30pm after a Jersey Shore spin-off called The Show with Vinny. Zach Stone stars Burnham as the title character, a guy who just got out of high school who foregoes college to try to become famous – despite not having any talent. Burnham rose up via a series of viral YouTube videos of himself performing comedic songs before releasing successful albums and Comedy Central specials and impressing Judd Apatow enough to hire him to develop [...]

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IFC Orders a Sketch Show from the Birthday Boys, Produced by Bob Odenkirk and Ben Stiller

by | March 7th, 2013

IFC is continuing to stockpile high-profile comedy shows, in a continued attempt to rival competing comedy-heavy networks like Adult Swim, TBS, and Comedy Central. The network announced today it has greenlit a sketch comedy show from LA-based group The Birthday Boys. Ben Stiller and Bob Odenkirk are both onboard as executive producers. This is the first sketch series Odenkirk has produced since his own Mr. Show ended its run over a decade ago. The Birthday Boys is a group of seven writer-performers (Jefferson Dutton, David Ferguson, Mike Hanford, Tim Kalpakis, Matt Kowalick, Mike Mitchell, and Chris VanArtsdalen) who have been putting on a monthly sketch show at the Upright Citizens Brigade [...]

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TV Land Orders Kirstie Alley and Michael Richards's New Sitcom

by | February 15th, 2013

Continuing its practice of cramming retro sitcom stars into new shows, TV Land has ordered a new series called Kirstie's New Show that will star Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, and Michael Richards. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the cable network has ordered a 12-episode first season that will debut in the fall. The sitcom, which was ordered to pilot last fall, stars Alley as Broadway star Madison Banks as her long lost son (Eric Petersen) comes back into her life. Perlman plays her assistant and best friend, and Richards plays her limo driver. This will be the first regular TV gig in several years for each [...]

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Dave Gorman Is Getting a New TV Show in the UK

by | April 2nd, 2013

British comedian and author Dave Gorman is getting a new show, the UK TV channel Dave announced today. Gorman, best known for Are You Dave Gorman? and Googlewhack Adventure, will star in Modern Life is Goodish, loosely based on his live show Powerpoint Presentation. The network has commissioned six hour-long episodes of Modern Life, which will blend stand-up and real world footage to explore Gorman's frustrations with consumerism, the media, and technology. Gorman is probably best known to US audiences for a brief stint as a Daily Show correspondent in 2006 during that weird period where they had two British guys. Gorman's new series is set to air [...]

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'Shaun of the Dead's Nick Frost to Star in a New Show from 'Curb' Producer

by | March 26th, 2013

Nick Frost, whom you probably know as Simon Pegg's partner in crime from Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Paul, has signed on to star in a new British comedy series created by longtime Curb Your Enthusiasm producer/director Robert B. Weide. UK TV channel Sky Atlantic has ordered a six-episode first season of the comedy, entitled Mr. Sloane. The show is a bittersweet rom-com set in the late '60s that stars Frost as the title character, Jeremy Sloane, a man going through a midlife crisis who has his fortunes changed when he meets a woman at a hardware store. Frost can next be seen on the big screen [...]

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Comedy Central Orders a Show from Broad City, Produced by Amy Poehler

by | March 13th, 2013

Comedy Central just ordered a 10-episode first season of a show called Broad City, based on the popular web series of the same name. Created by and starring Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer as a couple of young people living in New York City, the web series racked up hundreds of thousands of hits and attracted the attention of Amy Poehler, who's producing the TV version. Comedy Central ordered a Broad City pilot last year after the project spent a year in development at FX. Jacobson and Glazer, who also performed live Broad City shows at Poehler's Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York, will star in the [...]

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Anthony Jeselnik and Pete Holmes Talk to Each Other About Comedy Stuff for 'Vulture'

by | February 20th, 2013

"On Fallon, we would have these pitch meetings. And every single time I would pitch, it would be the biggest disaster of all time. Some of the writers would laugh, but Jimmy would always stare at me as if I was trying to make fun of him, which I wasn’t at all. The producer said to me a couple times, 'Listen, we all know you’re funny, but these bits you’re pitching, they’d be great for The Anthony Jeselnik Show, but they’re not right for The Jimmy Fallon Show.' And after a couple times hearing that, I was like, 'God, that Anthony Jeselnik Show sounds really funny.'"

- Anthony Jeselnik, star of Comedy Central's new series The Jeselnik [...]

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Marc Maron Wraps Production on His IFC Show, Coming June 2013

by | November 12th, 2012

Marc Maron announced today via the email list for his WTF podcast, that he's finished production on Maron, the new IFC show he co-wrote and stars in. Here's some of Maron's email to fans:

"I wrapped. That’s show biz talk that I have never been able to utter because I have never been in anything to wrap really. I completed shooting 10 episodes of ‘Maron’ for IFC. I have to say that it was an amazing experience that I really had given up on ever happening for me. I had genuinely let go of the dream of doing a television show. The fact that I was able to do [...]

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Andy Samberg's Fox Cop Show Has a Name: 'Brooklyn 99'

by | April 2nd, 2013

One of the most eagerly-awaited pilots this season for comedy fans has been an untitled Fox cop show that stars Andy Samberg and is co-created by Parks and Rec's Mike Schur. Now, it looks like the untitled series has a title: Brooklyn 99. USA Today was first to print the show's title last month. Co-created by Schur and Parks writer Dan Goor, Brooklyn 99 stars Samberg as the lead detective Jake Peralta, who watches over a diverse group of cops at a precinct at the edge of New York City. Terry Crews, Andre Braugher, Chelsea Peretti, Melissa Fumero, Stephanie Beatriz, and Joe Lo Truglio make up the rest [...]

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Chris Hardwick's 'Nerdist' TV Show Will Feature Stand-Up and Cool Guests

by | March 25th, 2013

BBC America just announced an impressive guest lineup for The Nerdist, the network's new Chris Hardwick-hosted show based on the popular podcast and blog of the same name. After a series of one-hour specials on BBC America, The Nerdist will kick off its 10-episode first season this Saturday, March 30th, at 10PM, with Hardwick joined by his Nerdist cohorts Jonah Ray and Matt Mira. Guests will include Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, Gillian Jacobs, Dominic Monaghan, Guillermo Del Toro, Robert Kirkman, Buzz Aldrin, and Karen Gillan, but more importantly, the show will feature stand-up, with Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer, Kyle Kinane, Natasha Leggero, Ron Funches and Matt Kirshen set [...]

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IFC Announces the Cast, Guest Stars, and a May 3rd Premiere for 'Maron'

by | March 11th, 2013

Maron, the new sitcom created by and starring stand-up comedian and podcasting pioneer Marc Maron will debut on IFC Friday, May 3rd, the cable network announced today. The show is based on Maron's life and will see him playing a fictionalized version of himself. IFC also revealed a list of actors who will have recurring roles on the show, including Judd Hirsch as Maron's father, Maron's fellow stand-up Andy Kindler as his comedian friend, Nora Zehetner (Grey's Anatomy) as his young girlfriend, and Josh Brener (Glory Daze) as his assistant. All of these actors will appear in just 2-3 episodes each, with Marc Maron being the only actor [...]

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Watch Some of Anthony Jeselnik's New Comedy Central Show 'The Jeselnik Offensive'

by | February 19th, 2013

Here's the first part of tonight's episode of Anthony Jeselnik's new show The Jeselnik Offensive, which debuts tonight on Comedy Central at 10:30. The show's basically Jeselnik and a panel of comedians joking about current events and pop culture, and his guests tonight are Aziz Ansari and Amy Schumer. Now that you've seen the first seven minutes of the episode, you can just start watching tonight at 10:37 instead of 10:30 to pick up where you left off.

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