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New Girl's Max Greenfield guest edited Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop this week. Weird, right? The result is so delightfully self-serious with quotes like: "I take a deep breath in and I realize that in this moment I am fine and everything is okay. More importantly, I am reminded that my A.P.C. jeans are so perfectly worn in that they are appropriate for any season and I am suddenly at ease." And: "A trouser that lets people know you’re down to party in the classiest way possible." And lastly: "I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws." Read more here; you won't be disappointed.

Here's the first trailer for the show currently titled The Mindy Project (and hey, maybe it'll stay called that), the new Fox sitcom from The Office's Mindy Kaling. You can see a lot of the setting up that's going to be going on in the pilot (which this trailer is cut exclusively from), and it definitely looks promising. What say you? Will the combo of this and New Girl back-to-back be overwhelmingly adorkable, or just adorkable enough?

What's the point of upfronts if all the networks are just going to announce everything the week before, all willy nilly (oddly, All Willy Nilly is also the name of a yet to be picked up CBS pilot – no it's not)? Jealous of all the NBC bean spilling, last night, FOX announced its three new single-camera comedies for next season.

First, is Mindy Kaling's highly anticipated It's Messy, in which she plays a doctor trying to have it all. Besides Kaling, The Office's Howard Klein and BJ Novak will executive produce the show (things are just looking bleaker and bleaker over in Scranton). Her co-stars – Ed Weeks, [...]

For Fox's 25th Anniversary special, the folks over at Bob's Burgers made this delightful 70 second clip. Because, I assume, Fox had to make room for a lengthy Melrose Place montage, a mere 10 seconds of it was actually shown on TV. Well, that's what the internet is for! Well, it's for porn and racist comments filled with misspellings, mostly, but stuff cut from TV has a place here too.

Robert Lopez, the Tony Award-winning songwriter of Avenue Q and Book of Mormon, has written an original song that will be used in the April 29th episode of The Simpsons. This comes almost nine years to day of the last time The Simpsons featured a completely new song that was not a parody (the last was during season 14's "Dude, Where's My Ranch?), which is pretty crazy, considering how big music was to the earlier seasons of the show. The song will be sung by guest-star Steve Coogan, who will play a cruise ship entertainment director who, "entertains the ship's passengers with a song that causes Bart to [...]

Coming to Mondays at 8:30 on CBS this fall is Partners, a new sitcom from James Burrows that the network describes as being about "two life-long best friends and business partners whose 'bromance' is tested when one of them is engaged to be married."

Coming to Mondays at 8:30 on Fox in the fall of 1996 was Partners, an old sitcom from James Burrows that the network described as "Best friends Bob and Owen work together as aspiring young architects on the rise, their relationship complicated by Owen's recent engagement to Alicia."

OK then! So, what the hell is the deal here? TVbytheNumbers discovered the weird similarities between [...]

As the first place network, FOX is different place than NBC and their predictable schedule suggests as much. Tuesday becomes their night of sitcoms, with the only somewhat comedic Glee moving to Thursdays. Raising Hope moves to 8:00, which is perfect for its family focus, and the hotly anticipated The Mindy Project goes right where it should be at 9:30, post New Girl. There isn't much to discuss, as it’s a pretty safe schedule. Check it out below. What do you think? Are these your go-to Tuesday plans?

On the one hand, this TV season has had more sitcoms staring women than any in recent memory, which is good! On the other hand, all those funny ladies on TV have been subject to a pretty unfair level of scrutiny and blowback, as the characters they portray are generally flawed people and don't do a great job of representing their entire demographic. Because, you know, they're not supposed to. It's a pretty shitty thing, and while Lena Dunham and Girls have borne the brunt of the flawed funny ladies blowback lately, Zooey Deschanel's character on New Girl got her fair share of criticism as well, especially in the [...]

Former Adult Swim VP of Program Development Nick Weidenfeld is working on a new late-night animation block for Fox's Saturday nights, and the whole thing is starting to take shape as the development process progresses. Here are the basics: it's going to be on Saturday nights from 11pm-12:30am, and it'll feature four 15-minute shows as well as "about 50 short-form shows of 1-3 minute each."

The first 15-minute show that's officially been picked up is Axe Cop, which is based on a downright delightful comic that's written by a five-year-old and drawn by his 29-year-old brother. It is as adorably absurd as it sounds and if [...]

After Matt Groening unleashed a firestorm last week by acknowledging that the hometown of the Simpsons was based on Springfield, Oregon – if in name only – he and the writers shot back last night with, what has long been the most powerful weapon in their arsenal, Bart’s chalkboard scrawl: "The true location of Springfield is in any state but yours." The kings have spoken so back to the stables for the rest of us or at least until Groening accidently reveals Mr. Burns's definite age.

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:

Seth MacFarlane's pockets are getting even more full: Fox just renewed both Family Guy and American Dad for their eleventh and eighth seasons, respectively. It's not all good news for MacFarlane, however, as Fox has decided to hold off on renewing The Cleveland Show until its fourth season starts to air this fall. Oh man, so he'll potentially only have two animated series on Fox on Sundays? Someone send the guy a sympathy edible arrangement.

In non-MacFarlane-related Fox animation news, Bob's Burgers writer Scott Jacobson confirmed that it has also been picked up for another season, its third. Burgers all around!

Vulture is reporting Community Executive Producers Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan have signed a big deal to create television for 20th Century Fox. Goldman and Donovan have been Dan Harmon's number twos since the premiere (and the namesakes for Fat Neil and Garrett, respectively) so the loss is significant. This doesn't reveal anything about Community's renewal future but let's all just agree to pretend that it's definitely great news, for some reason. It does reveal that Fox is making a hard push towards live action sitcoms, something that before New Girl hadn't been their strong suit for a while. First The Office's Mindy Kaling then 30 Rock's [...]