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USA Orders Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham's Pilot to Series, Coming Early 2014

by | May 16th, 2013

Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham are coming back to TV. The USA network announced this morning that they've ordered a new show called Playing House from the duo, who created/starred in the critically-acclaimed but short-lived sitcom Best Friends Forever for NBC last season. USA commissioned the Parham/St. Clair show as a pilot presentation back in February. Playing House is a single-camera half-hour comedy once again created by Parham and St. Clair that stars St. Clair as a career-driven woman who returns from her job overseas to help her best friend (Parham) raise her new baby. Zach Woods (The Office), Brad Morris (Cougar Town), and Keegan-Michael Key (Key & [...]

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ABC Unveils Its Fall Schedule

by | May 14th, 2013

Following NBC and Fox unveiling their Fall 2013 schedules over the past couple days, ABC has done so too as upfronts week, during which networks present their new shows to advertisers, continues. Of note to comedy fans is that the new sitcoms The Goldbergs, starring Wendi McLendon-Covey and Jeff Garlin, and Trophy Wife, starring Malin Akerman and Bradley Whitford, are being put in the Tuesday 9pm block where Happy Endings and Don't Trust the B—- were last season. They'll have a much stronger lead-in than those shows had, though, with the high-profile Marvel series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. airing right before them instead of the anemic Dancing with the [...]

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Pre-Upfronts Buzz Suggests NBC's Female Comedy Block May Be a Go

by | May 9th, 2011

Vulture has an Upfronts Week buzz round-up to get you psyched for the announcement of a slew of new shows (Tim Allen sitcom, anyone?), as well as the possibility of an NBC female comedy night. "As for the rest of NBC's pickups, the trades suggest a female-centric comedy block could be in the works, with sitcoms produced by Chelsea Handler and Emily Spivey supposedly looking good," they note. Deadline reported the night of a 1,000 lady comedians might fall midweek, and may also include the heretofore unnamed Whitney Cummings and Kari Lizer pilots. This is, of course, not including any of the returning female-lead comedies currently [...]

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TBS Is Developing New Shows from Steve Carell, Diablo Cody, and More

by | May 15th, 2013

The TBS network announced the batch of new shows it's developing this morning, including some intriguing projects from Steve Carell and screenwriter Diablo Cody and a lot of generic TBS-y sounding stuff. Carell is developing a show tentatively called Tribeca that he's executive producing with his wife Nancy Carell. It's a comedy centered on a bunch of socially inept LAPD crime scene investigators, described as "an eccentric but brilliant group of people who investigate crime, reveal way too much personal information about themselves and refuse to rest until justice has been served." Screenwriter Diablo Cody is developing a show called Me Time with Diablo Cody, a comedic show that [...]

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NBC and Fox Unveil New Fall Schedules

by | May 13th, 2013

TV networks are announcing their Fall 2013 lineups all week, and NBC and Fox are the first to reveal their next season's schedules. Of note comedy-wise is that NBC is only airing comedies on Thursday nights this fall, abandoning the Tuesday 9-10pm and Wednesday 8-9pm sitcom mini-blocks that hosted now-canceled shows like Guys with Kids and Go On. Parks and Recreation is moving to that 8pm Thursday slot (the Friends timeslot).

At Fox, the Andy Samberg/Mike Schur cop series Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Seth MacFarlane's Dads will join the network's Tuesday night comedy block. Raising Hope and new Army comedy Enlisted will premiere on Fridays later in the fall. Fox's [...]

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CBS Unveils Its Fall Schedule, Now Has a Two-Hour Comedy Block on Thursdays

by | May 15th, 2013

CBS became the last of the Big Four TV networks to announce its Fall 2013 lineup this morning. The biggest development comedy-wise is that they're expanding their Thursday night comedy block to two hour now, giving NBC a run for its money by competing head-on with the Peacock Network's long-running but anemic comedy night. Adding more comedies makes sense with big hits How I Met Your Mother and Two and a Half Men on the way out soon, and

CBS has four new shows with big stars on the schedule this time around: The Crazy Ones (with Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar), Mom (with Anna Faris), The Millers [...]

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Mindy Kaling Diaries Her Upfronts Week

by | May 16th, 2012

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be an already very successful comedian, who has the most buzzed about sitcom pilot but still has to sweat it out, waiting to hear if it gets picked up? You have? Great, because Vulture had Mindy Kaling write an endearing, hilarious, enlightening, very Mindy Kaling diary of her past week of waiting to hear about the status of The Mindy Project. It's worth reading just for the description of Brian Grazer's pointy hair. Here's an excerpt:

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