What's more Portlandia than teasing the season 4 premiere of the show via Instagram? Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, and crew posted this clip this morning to announce the show's return to IFC on Thursday, February 27th at 10:00PM. Along with the announcement comes a huge list of new and returning guests including Vanessa Bayer, Kirsten Dunst, k.d. lang, Maya Rudolph, Dan Savage, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi, Nick Swardson, Gus Van Sant, Jeff Goldblum, Jeff Tweedy, Kumail Nanjiani, and of course Kyle MacLachlan as the mayor.
Comedian Eddie Izzard has signed a one-year talent holding deal with Eddie Izzard, Variety reports. The network will develop potential projects around Izzard or cast him in previously-existing pilots, with Izzard set to receive an executive producer credit on a series if he is cast as the lead. Izzard recently guest starred on two episodes of the NBC drama Hannibal, and he's set to appear in the show's upcoming second season. With NBC's new comedies Sean Saves the World and Michael J. Fox Show struggling in the ratings, there's plenty of room for a new sitcom starring Eddie Izzard on the schedule next season.
As 2013 winds down, the TV season is doing so too, but there's still some exciting stuff happening this week. Dan Harmon's new show, a Back to the Future-inspired animated series called Rick and Morty he co-created with Channel 101 cohort Justin Roiland, premieres tonight on Adult Swim. SNL also returns this week with Paul Rudd hosting for his third time. Besides Rick and Morty's premiere and SNL's return, there aren't any other big TV happenings with this looking like just a regular week, with new episodes of Colbert, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Key & Peele, and all the rest.
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It's not a terribly exciting week in television, with most shows taking a break for Thanksgiving. Of note this week, Conan O'Brien will be the guest on Thursday's Pete Holmes Show on Thanksgiving Night, his first appearance on the program which he executive produces. Budd Friedman, founder of the comedy club chain The Improv, will be making his late night debut as a guest on Fallon, and SNL's Brooks Wheelan will be doing a standup set on Adam DeVine's House Party on Comedy Central.
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On last night's episode of Family Guy, the Griffin's dog and smartest member of the family Brian was struck by a car and killed off. Brian, who was voiced by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, died after baby Stewie's time machine had broken, meaning he was unable to go back and save him. But since the world of Family Guy has a very casual relationship with continuity and logic, it's more than possible that his death need not be the end of Brian.
Update: Family Guy's writers made reference to the death at Comic-Con a few months ago, saying that one family member would be killed and replaced by another [...]
