BBC America has just picked up Chris Hardwick's TV series The Nerdist for a 10-episode season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Hardwick has been hosting a series of hour-long Nerdist specials for BBC America since last year, but now, it'll be a regular weekly show. This comes in addition to his post-Walking Dead talk show Talking Dead on AMC, which was recently expanded from a half-hour to a full hour and will return in February. Based on Hardwick's popular podcast and blog of the same name, The Nerdist will see Hardwick joined by his podcast co-hosts Jonah Ray and Matt Mira for a series of hour-long shows [...]
NBC has ordered four more episodes of its new sitcom Guys with Kids, bringing the episode order from 13 to 17, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Jimmy Fallon-produced parenting series stars Jesse Bradford, Anthony Anderson, and Zach Cregger and has been earning modest but dependable ratings throughout its first season so far. The show generally improved on the ratings of its now-canceled lead-in Animal Practice and managed to retain most of Whitney's audience after that show's premiere last night. NBC ordering only 4 additional episodes instead of the typical 9-episode back order means they're being careful, which makes sense considering Guys with Kids' ratings aren't great. So, America, you [...]
We reported earlier this year that Dan Harmon created an Adult Swim pilot called Rick and Morty with his Channel 101 cohort Justin Roiland, but just this weekend, it was announced via Roiland's Twitter that Adult Swim has ordered the show to series. Harmon and Dino Stamatopoulos's production company, Starburns Industries, also confirmed the news via Twitter. The first season order is for ten half-hour episodes that are expected to air in late 2013. Rick and Morty follows a genius inventor and his non-genius grandson and is based on Roiland's old Channel 101 shorts "The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti," which are based [...]
