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'Burning Love' Season 3 Is Here

Yahoo's excellent web series Burning Love, a parody of The Bachelor, returns for its third season, with three brand new episodes dropping today. New episodes will begin dropping daily on Monday. Entitled Burning Down the House, Season 3 features a lot of familiar faces from the dating competitions in Seasons 1 and 2 coming back to compete for a 900 dollar prize. The first episode's above, second and third are below:

'Burning Love's All-Star Season Three to Launch April 12th

Yahoo's web series Burning Love, a comedic fictional reality dating show, is set to debut a third season next month that will bring back members of reunite its all-star cast. Created by Childrens Hospital writer Erica Oyama, Burning Love starred Ken Marino in Season 1 and June Diane Raphael in Season 2, which concluded this week. The third season, entitled "Burning Down the House," will bring back favorites from the first two seasons and have them compete against each other for $900 cash instead of competing for love. Burning Love's third season will kick off with three new episodes on April 12th, and a new episode will debut [...]

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

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 [...]

Ken Marino Lined Up A Comedy Nerd Dream Team for 'Burning Love' Season 2

Over the summer, Ken Marino starred in an excellent Yahoo! web series called Burning Love that parodied TV dating shows and was created and written by his wife Erica Oyama. Entertainment Weekly reports that the show will be back for a second and third season with Marino and Oyama having once again assembled an amazing group of comedic actors. The new season will star NSTF:SD:SUV's June Diane Raphael, reprising her role as Julie Gristlewhite from the first season of Burning Love, now at the center of her own dating competition.

Julie's suitors will be played by a cast that includes just about everyone in comedy (Michael Cera, Adam [...]

Rudd, Mantzoukas, McBrayer, Marino, and Kenan Play World's Greatest Pick-Up Game

How much fun is this picture? So much fun! It's from the set of They Came Together and is the absolute best. Whoever is in charge of costume design for the movie deserves 12 Oscars. Of course, Jack McBrayer would wear a full cardigan and oversized khakis; of course, Ken Marino would wear camo cargo shorts; of course, Jason Mantzoukas would have a knee brace. With these plus the photos of Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler running through leaves, They Came Together is the most photogenic film in recent history. Check out more images below, one of which might feature a prosthetic penis. Can you spot it? [...]

Ken Marino and Erica Oyama Are Adapting 'Go the Fuck to Sleep'

Fox is turning the profane children's book Go the Fuck to Sleep into a movie, and Deadline reports that Ken Marino and Erica Oyama Marino, the husband-wife team behind the hilarious Yahoo web series Burning Love, are writing the script. From author Adam Mansbach and illustrator Ricardo Cortes, Go the Fuck to Sleep is described as "a children's book for adults" that follows a frustrated father not being able to get his daughter to sleep. An audiobook version read by Samuel L. Jackson (embedded below) became a big internet hit two years ago. This seems like an awfully flimsy basis for a movie and as The AV [...]

Watch the First Two Episodes of 'Burning Love' Season 2

Yahoo!'s web series Burning Love kicked off its second season today with the debut of two new episodes. This season stars NTSF:SD:SUV's June Diane Raphael as dating show bachelorette Julie, with Ken Marino directing, Erica Oyama writing, and Ben Stiller's company Red Hour producing. Here are the first two episodes, which you should get super emotionally invested in like a real reality show.

Ken Marino Will Star in 'The Gates' Pilot for NBC

Ken Marino, star of The State, Party Down, Childrens Hospital, Burning Love and about a million other wonderful things, has signed on to star in a comedy pilot called The Gates for NBC, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show is based on the UK comedy of the same name, which follows parents and staff navigating the student drop-off line for an elementary school. Marino will play Mark, a lovable nice guy married to a type-A wife (Kathleen Rose Perkins, House of Lies). The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi has also joined on as Trevor, a super-driven Yale educated dad with high-achieving, competitive kids. Cathy Yuspa and Josh [...]

Timothy Olyphant, J.B. Smoove, and Just About Everyone Else Is Guest Starring on 'The League' This Season

The League creators Jeff Schaffer and Jackie Marcus Schaffer chatted with TVGuide today and spilled the beans about several exciting guest stars set to make appearances on the upcoming season, which debuts tonight on FX at 10:30. The many guest spots the Schaffers mention include Timothy Olyphant as "a white sushi chef," J.B. Smoove as a guy in a wheelchair who gets into a conflict with the guys, Julia Duffy as Kevin and Taco's mom, Robert Wagner as Pete's grandfather, Kristin Cavallari as the wife of NFL-er Jay Cutler, and as documented on Twitter with a faux-fistfight, Ken Marino will be playing the gang's high school enemy in an episode [...]

Will Ken Marino Find Love or Burns on 'Burning Love'?

Ken Marino has been alternative comedy's leading hunk for about 20 years now, so he's the perfect candidate to pretend to pretend to find love. Burning Love is the ideal web series for people who enjoy when people ask, "can I steal you for a minute?" Well, Burning Love, because you are so funny and you have such a terrific cast of female comedians (Malin Akerman, Kristen Bell, Natasha Leggero, June Diane Raphael, Ken Jeong), you can steal me for around eight minutes a week. After the jump you can find episode two and three, where we learn which archetype from The Bachelor everyone represents and who is the famous [...]

Watch the Trailer for 'Burning Love' Season 3

The Yahoo web series Burning Love wrapped up a second season last week, but Season 3 has already been filmed and is coming out April 12th. Written by Erica Oyama (Childrens Hospital) and directed by Ken Marino, the third season of Burning Love is titled "Burning Down the House" and it's an all-star edition that brings back favorite guests from the previous two seasons. Instead of the contestants competing for love this time around, they're all fighting to win $900. The Season 3 cast features Ken Marino, June Diane Raphael, Michael Ian Black, Tom Lennon, Natasha Leggero, Abigail Spencer, Beth Dover, Kumail Nanjiani, Rob Huebel, Joe Lo Truglio, Ryan [...]

Talking to Ken Marino and June Diane Raphael About the New Season of 'Burning Love'

Yahoo! debuted its first batch of web series last year via its video site Yahoo! screen, and they had a massive success right off the bat with Burning Love, a Bachelor parody starring Ken Marino and written by Erica Oyama. Today marks the launch of Burning Love's second season, with the incredibly funny June Diane Raphael (NTSF:SD:SUV) playing the lead role this time around. The contestants this year are played by an impressive bunch of comedians and comedic actors that includes Michael Cera, Adam Scott, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel, and tons more. Burning Love is also making the jump to TV on February 25th, when doubled-up [...]

The 'Burning Love' Season Two Trailer Will Make You Wish It Was February 14th

Here's the brand new trailer for the second season of Yahoo's web series Burning Love. Created by Erica Oyama, directed by Ken Marino, and produced by Ben Stiller's company Red Hour, Burning Love is a Bachelor parody that will focus on June Diane Raphael's (Adult Swim's NTSF:SD:SUV, How Did This Get Made?) character Julie looking for love this time around. The show has an insanely cool lineup of bachelors this year, including Michael Cera, Adam Scott, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel, Jerry O'Connell, Joe Lo Truglio, Martin Starr, Colin Hanks, Ryan Hansen, Nick Kroll, Kumail Nanjiani, Nick Thune, Brandon Johnson, Adam Brody, and if it's anything like last season, a big [...]

The Lost Roles Interview with Ken Marino

This Lost Roles is brought to you by Childrens Hospital, which airs on Adult Swim tonight, and every Thursday, at midnight. Watch it why don't you?

Lost Roles is a weekly column exploring “what might have been” in movie and TV comedy as we take a different actor, writer, or comedian each week and examine the parts they turned down, wanted but didn’t get, and other projects that never made it to the screen. This week, I interviewed Ken Marino, star of the Adult Swim series Childrens Hospital, the Yahoo! web series Burning Love, and an alumni of The State and Party Down. Marino was nice enough to chat about [...]

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