Splitsider

Posts tagged as girls

Awards

The Golden Globe Nominations Ignore All Your Favorite Comedies Once Again

by | December 13th, 2012

The 2013 Golden Globe nominations came in this morning, and, as usual, they snubbed a bunch of TV's best comedies. Community and Happy Endings didn't receive a single nomination (and never have, from the Globes), whereas Parks and Recreation and Louie only got one nomination each for acting and not for Best TV Comedy. To put things into perspective, the Matt LeBlanc Showtime series Episodes got a Best TV Comedy nomination, an honor that was not bestowed upon 30 Rock, Community, Happy Endings, Parks and Recreation, and Louie. And most important of all, Parks and Recreation's Nick Offerman has never been nominated for a Golden Globe (or an [...]

Deleted Scenes

Watch Hannah Fail to Get a Job at a Cupcake Store in This 'Girls' Deleted Scene

by | December 6th, 2012

The first season of Girls comes out on DVD next week, and included will be a handful of deleted scenes. Including this one, in which Hannah attempts to find a job near and dear to her heart: at a cupcake shop. Does she get the job? Obviously not, or this scene would have been too important to relegate to the internet/DVD extras. Alas!

Criticism

Lena Dunham Kind of Enjoys the 'Girls' Criticism

by | November 13th, 2012

"People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power. But there's also this feeling of 'I could do that, too.' People don't feel rabidly jealous of Larry David or Salman Rushdie because they don't think, I could do that. And with what I've done, I think a lot of people think, 'I could do that in my sleep. If I'd just met one person along my path, I would have that TV show'… I kind of get off on it because I had a liberal-arts education… It's a really self-righteous, annoyed, argumentative world. And I loved it. But I don't wanna engage with people. I think you look [...]

Heroes

Lena Dunham Says Louis C.K. Got Out of His Seat 11 Times at the Emmys

by | October 9th, 2012

"I'm intimidated by Louis [C.K.]. He really has this [expletive] this scene [attitude]. I saw him get out of his seat 11 times at the Emmys… His approach to all of this is really interesting… He came over and gave me a hug and said 'What you're doing is really important.' I said, 'I dressed as you for Halloween.'"

— Lena Dunham talking about Louis C.K. at The New Yorker Festival.

one million dollars

Lena Dunham Is Seeking $1 Million for Her New Advice Book

by | October 2nd, 2012

Girls creator and star Lena Dunham is pitching her first book, tentatively titled Not That Kind of Girl: Advice by Lena Dunham, to publishers, and she’s starting the bidding at $1 million for the rights. Slate reports that the book will be a collection of personal essays on sex, relationships, friendships, work, traveling, and obsessing over death, and that in the intro, Dunham makes some self-deprecating jokes about whether her advice is worthwhile (even though she's asking for $1 million for it). I'm conflicted about which outdated "one million dollars" movie reference to close this post with. Should I compare Dunham to Austin Powers villain Dr. Evil or work [...]

Literature

Take a Look at Lena Dunham's $3.7 Million Book Proposal

by | December 7th, 2012

Earlier this year, Girls star and creator Lena Dunham made headlines when she sold her first book to Random House for a whopping $3.7 million. Titled Not That Kind of Girl: Advice by Lena Dunham, it's full of "frank and funny advice on everything from sex to eating to traveling to work" in the style of Helen Gurley Brown's Having It All. Now, Gawker has published the entire 66-page proposal for the book, which they point out made Dunham $56,000 a page. Head over to Gawker to take a look at the entire proposal, which you can use as a blueprint to scoring a $3.7 million book [...]

Trailers

Here's the 'Girls' Season 2 Trailer You've Been Waiting for

by | November 30th, 2012

This is it, the trailer for the new season of Lena Dunham's acclaimed HBO series Girls, which kicks off on January 13th at 9pm. If the two-minute trailer is any indication, Season 2 should be twice as crazy, funny, and action-packed as Season 1, and it also looks like it'll feature twice as much of The Lonely Island's Jorma Taccone.

Renewals

HBO Renews 'Girls' for a Third Season Before Season 2 Even Starts

by | November 12th, 2012

Lena Dunham's HBO series Girls has been renewed for a third season, Judd Apatow reveals in a recent interview with The Hot Button in promotion of his new movie This Is 40. Apatow says (at the interview's 34-minute mark), "We're about to shoot the third season of Girls. Season 2 starts in January." It's a rare move for a network to pick up a show for an additional season before the latest season has aired, but given Girls' popularity with critics, audiences, and awards voters alike, it makes sense that HBO would give the series an early renewal. The best news about all this? We can look forward [...]

Money Money Money

The Bidding for Lena Dunham's New Book is at $3.6 Million (For Now)

by | October 4th, 2012

We reported earlier this week that Lena Dunham is shopping around a new advice book (tentatively titled Not That Kind of Girl) and that the starting bid for the book rights was $1 million, but in the days that've followed, the bidding has gotten a heck of a lot higher. Deadline tells us that, with the deal still not final, bidding is currently at $3.6 million. Stay tuned to see which side of NASA's annual budget Lena Dunham's paycheck lands on.

contracts

‘Girls’ Guest Star Rita Wilson Requested No Nudity, Probably Fears Shower Sex Accident Scene

by | September 25th, 2012

“I [wanted] it put in my contract… [They] don't want to see me nude… That's all I have to say. I'm like, 'Don't write in any nudity, please!'"

- Future Girls guest star Rita Wilson to Us Weekly. She’ll be playing Allison Williams’s mother and probably fears having to film a shower sex accident scene like Lena Dunham’s TV parents Peter Scolari and Becky Ann Baker did last season after they didn’t plan ahead and secure a “no nudity” clause in their contracts.

honors

'Louie,' 'Key & Peele,' 'Girls' and 'Parks and Rec' Amongst this Year's WGA Awards Nominees

by | December 7th, 2012

The Writers Guild of America announced its TV nominations yesterday, and unlike a lot of awards shows (say, the Emmys), the WGA actually recognized most of the great comedies on TV. The 2013 WGA Awards are set to go down on February 17th with simultaneous ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles. This year, new and newish series like Girls, Portlandia, Key & Peele, Girls, and Veep all scored their first WGA nominations, while old favorites fared well too. Comedy-wise, Modern Family led the pack with 4 nominations, followed by The Simpsons (3), Parks and Recreation (2), 30 Rock (2), and Girls (2).

Read the full list of comedy nominations below. If you [...]

Season Preview

What to Expect from 'Girls' Season 2

by | November 26th, 2012

Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive first look at Girls' new season, which premieres on HBO on January 13th. WARNING: MILD SPOILERS CONTAINED BELOW: The new season will involve Jessa dealing with a bunch of puppies  her new husband (Chris O'Dowd) bought her as a wedding gift (pictured here). Meanwhile, Adam is recovering from the car accident last season and is still feeling hurt by Hannah. Speaking of Hannah, she's now living with her gay ex-boyfriend Elijah(Andrew Rannells), and the two throw a karaoke housewarming party that doesn't go as planned. Lena Dunham, Girls' creator/star/writer/producer/director/probably the sound editor too, tells EW, "You know how an infant doubles its weight [...]

Politics

Lena Dunham's New Obama Ad Is Full of Sexual Innuendo

by | October 26th, 2012

Here's Girls star and creator Lena Dunham's new ad for the Obama campaign, aimed at young female voters. In it, she compares voting for the first time to losing her virginity. The video's racked up nearly 300,000 YouTube hits in less than a day, and, needless to say, it's angered a lot of conservatives, who surprisingly weren't down for the ad's liberal stance on pre-marital voting.

Cool People

Today in Lena Dunham: Race, Letterheads, and Directing

by | October 3rd, 2012

Speaking at Fortune magazine’s annual Most Powerful Women conference yesterday, Girls star/creator/producer/director/writer Lena Dunham addressed the criticism her HBO series received during its first season for its lack of minority characters. Dunham said she experienced “heartbreak at the idea that the show would make anyone feel isolated” and promised the second season would include "a multitude of new characters in the show. There are some of color. Some are not. Some are Caucasian.” It’s already been reported that Donald Glover will be appearing in the new season, but Dunham seems to have some female minority characters planned, saying she’s reacting to people "who are women of color [...]

Older posts »
« Newer posts
-->