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Nerdist Industries Signs a Deal with AMC and Will Bring 'All Star Celebrity Bowling' to TV

by | February 19th, 2013

Comedian Chris Hardwick has signed a new deal with AMC via his company Nerdist Industries to develop his YouTube show All Star Celebrity Bowling into a potential series, Deadline reports. Nerdist and AMC have also agreed for bonus footage from Talking Dead, the Walking Dead companion show that Hardwick hosts on the network to be released via the Nerdist YouTube channel. All Star Celebrity Bowling, which began last April, features Chris Hardwick and friends bowling against a team of competitors from a different show. Past guests have included Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter, Marc Maron, Todd Glass, Jimmy Pardo, the cast of Workaholics, and the casts of [...]

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Amy Poehler Is Producing a Broad City TV Show For FX

by | November 22nd, 2011

Holy holiness! I just saw "Amy Poehler," "Broad City," "TV show" and "FX" and then I passed out, so you're gonna have to put the pieces together on your own. This is going to be amazing. The web series seems like a great fit for FX, which is already home to fast and dirty comedies like Always Sunny, The League, and Louie. And the addition of Amy Poehler, who knows its stars Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer from their time at the UCB theater, can only bring good things. Or GREAT things, which I have a sneaking suspicion this will be if it makes it all the way [...]

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Ken Marino's Web Series 'Burning Love' Is Coming to TV

by | January 28th, 2013

The Yahoo! web series Burning Love is being edited into a TV show that will begin airing on the E! network next month, Entertainment Weekly reports. For those who haven't seen it, the show is a Bachelor parody that starred Ken Marino as a firefighter looking for love during its first season and is written by Marino's wife Erica Oyama (Childrens Hospital). Burning Love aired last year on Yahoo! Screen and was a big viral hit. The 14-episode first season will be edited into seven half-hour episodes much in the way that Rob Corddry's web series Childrens Hospital was edited into a 15-minute series for Adult Swim its [...]

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Fox Buys an Ellen DeGeneres Produced Sitcom Based On the Web Series 'Couple Time'

by | August 16th, 2012

Couple Time is web series by UCB performers Allyn Rachel and Patrick Carlyle that aspires to capture the "weird stuff couples do when no one else is around," like make crow noises (as seen above) or talk about "Splices" (as seen below). With the help of Ellen DeGeneres, Fox has ordered a pilot script based on the series. Described as a modern-day Mad About You of sorts, the best part of the series, and hopefully the show, is the fact that the couple actually seems to like each other, not like many contemporary sitcom couples that are written to be sworn enemies. Now watch them talk about Splice [...]

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