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You Can Now Watch the Final 8 Episodes of 'Don't Trust the B' on Hulu

ABC canceled its critically-acclaimed but low-rated sitcom Don't Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 in January with eight episodes remaining. The unaired final episodes were unavailable until now. ABC has uploaded all the remaining shows to Hulu, including the Don't Trust the B series finale, which finds title character Chloe exploring her bitch origins while James Van Der Beek finds out his dad is not his biological father. If you're a fan of the show, head on over to Hulu now to find out how the DTTBIA23 saga wraps up.

Amazon Is Announcing Which Pilots It Picked Up Soon

Last month, online retailer Amazon released its first batch of original TV pilots online, allowing viewers to have a hand in deciding which ones get picked up to full series. With the broadcast networks announcing which pilots they're picking up this week, Deadline reports that Amazon will be announcing their new shows too. The company has started notifying the shows that are getting series orders, and Deadline writes that things are looking good for Alpha House and Betas, with Onion News Empire and Zombieland having solid chances as well. The report doesn't mention Those Who Can't, the schoolteacher comedy from Denver group The Grawlix that topped our list of [...]

Jon Daly Will Star in the Amazon Pilot 'Betas'

Jon Daly, a regular actor and writer on Comedy Central's Kroll Show and the host of the Earwolf podcast Rafflecast, has been cast in the lead role in a new comedy pilot from Amazon, Variety reports. The show is called Betas, and it's one of several comedy pilots online retailer Amazon is developing in hopes of turning some of them into its first comedy series. Daly will star as Hobbes, a guy in Silicon Valley trying to raise money for his app called "BRB" so that he can move on from his ex-wife and reward the quartet of computer geeks who coded the app. The show [...]

Netflix Adds Another 'Arrested Development' Easter Egg: Blue Handprints

Try searching for any movie with the word "blue" in the title or just the word "blue" itself on Netflix, and there's a little surprise for Arrested Development fans: blue handprints all over the menu. If you click on the handprints, a scene from Arrested Development's season two premiere "The One Where Michael Leaves" starts up, in which Michael discovers Tobias's blue handprints all over the model home. The easter egg, discovered by The Bluth Family tumblr, is the second hidden Arrested Development gag Netflix has debuted on its menu in advance of the show's May return after all the fake movies from the show were added [...]

Watch Episode Two of Don't Trust the B- in Apt 23 Right Now

ABC already posted the pilot episode of Don't Trust the B- in Apt 23 to Hulu last week, giving us an early peek at the new sitcom. And now they've gone and posted the second episode as well, despite it not officially airing for a couple of weeks. Will they keep this up the whole season? Is this how things work now, with networks just putting their shows on the internet well before they air? Buzz is harnessed in mysterious ways, I suppose.

Amazon Orders 'Alpha House' and 'Betas' to Series, Passes on 'Browsers'

Amazon debuted eight original comedy pilots on the online retailer's streaming service last month, and they're currently in the process of deciding which ones go to series. Deadline reports that Amazon has picked up the John Goodman senator comedy Alpha House and the Silicon Valley tech sitcom Betas, featuring Jon Daly, while passing on musical HuffPo intern series Browsers. Amazon passed on Zombieland last week. The online retailer has yet to make a decision on its four remaining comedy pilots – Onion News Empire, Those Who Can't, Supanatural, and Dark Minions. Those Who Can't and Onion News Empire our favorites, topped our list ranking all the potential [...]

'Zombieland' and 'Alpha House' Are Amazon's Most Popular Pilots for Some Reason

A week ago today, Amazon.com unveiled its first-ever slate of original programming by uploading eight comedy pilots to its streaming service. Amazon will only be picking up a select number of these pilots to series, and one of the many factors for a pickup is a viewer poll for each show. It seems like a far smaller number of people are voting for these shows than are watching, with only 300-700 people voting for each show as of this writing.

The pilot Zombieland, based on the 2009 movie of the same name, and the John Goodman-led political sitcom Alpha House are the two shows with the highest number [...]

'Arrested Development' and Streaming Shows Are Eligible for the Same Emmy Categories as Regular TV Shows

2013 looks like it could be the first year that streaming series from digital programmers like Netflix and Amazon go head-to-head with traditional TV shows at the Emmy Awards. The Emmys made a rule change to allow digital series to compete in the same drama and comedy categories that TV shows do back in 2008, but none have been nominated yet. The reason that may change this year is Netflix's high-profile launch of the Kevin Spacey/David Fincher drama House of Cards and the revived fourth season of Arrested Development.

With Amazon set to launch a bunch of original streaming comedy series in the next year, TV Guide [...]

Netflix Instant Adds a Bunch of Fake 'Arrested Development' Shows and Movies

The new season of Arrested Development is set to debut on Netflix Instant in 2013, but today, Netflix's "Watch Instantly" just added a bunch of fake movies and TV shows from the first three seasons of Arrested Development to the streaming service. Titles like Girls with Low Self Esteem: Newport Beach, Les Cousins Dangereux, Scandalmakers, and Boyfights appear as "Watch Instantly" options. Although the links just go to Netflix's Arrested Development page, the cover art and synopses from these fake shows are pretty entertaining and an early example of some of the cool Netflix bonus material we might be getting when Season 4 debuts next year (Most of the [...]

The Daily Show and The Colbert Report Are Returning to Hulu

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Breaking: "The Daily Show" and "Colbert Report" return to Hulu in a new deal with Viacom.less than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhoneBrian Stelterbrianstelter

After being yanked by Viacom over a year ago, Comedy Central's fake-news juggernauts are returning to Hulu. Both shows have been available in their entirety at TheDailyShow.com and ColbertNation.com the day after airing, but many more people just head to Hulu and [...]

Amazon Rejects 'Zombieland' Series

Amazon is deciding which of its eight comedy pilots are getting picked up this week, and it looks like Zombieland won't be one of them. "Our Zombieland series will not be moving forward on Amazon," the show/movie's co-creator Rhett Rheese tweeted yesterday. He added, "Sad for everyone involved. I'll never understand the vehement hate the pilot received from die-hard Zombieland fans. You guys successfully hated it out of existence. Anyway, we did our best, and we're very proud of our team."  Zombieland was the only existing franchise, besides The Onion, that Amazon made into a pilot, but being compared to the movie it's based on didn't win the pilot any favors. The [...]

Watch Some Clips from the Amazon Pilot 'Those Who Can't'

Online retailer Amazon began developing a slate of original comedy pilots last year for their Amazon Instant Video. Here are two clips from one called Those Who Can't, a show about three immature teachers created by and starring Denver-based comedy group The Grawlix (Andrew Orvedahl, Adam Cayton-Holland, and Benjamin Roy). The pilot will debut on Amazon soon, alongside the streaming service's other comedy pilots. Amazon will decide which pilots to pick up to series based on how much people like them, which is really how regular TV should run.

Check out the other clip from Those Who Can't below:

The 82 Best Comedies Currently Streaming on Netflix

As Netflix becomes a spot for television binge-watching, ventures into the world of original content with House of Cards, and prepares to make a lot of people really, really happy by finally bringing back Arrested Development, it can be hard to remember what Netflix was originally there for — flix for the Net! Right?

The website is constantly adding a ton of new titles that can often slip by unnoticed if they don't make it into your homepage recommendations. Amid the weird knock-off movies and forgettable television that is forever at everyone's fingertips, there is also a pretty good amount of quality comedy on the streaming service.

Here are [...]

People Watched 1 Billion Hours of Netflix Last Month

What did you do last month? The numbers suggest you probably watched a lot of Netflix. Netflix surpassed 1 billion hours of viewing in June. The average Netflixer watched 80 minutes a day of old episodes of Cheers, pop culture documentaries, and other desirables. These numbers would put them as TV's 7th most watched network and 2nd most watched cable network (right behind ESPN and ahead of Disney). As these numbers continue to increase, Netflix will continue to assert itself as a serious competitor to the networks, especially in terms of buying new series. And this is before they start having new episodes of Arrested Development and we all [...]

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