Christopher Abbott, who plays Marnie's on-again, off-again boyfriend Charlie on HBO's Girls, has left the series following creative differences with Lena Dunham, Page Six reports. Abbott has been a frequent recurring guest on the show since Season 1, but his role was looking as if it would be beefed up in the upcoming third season before this happened. Page Six's anonymous source told them, "They've just started work on Season 3, and Chris is at odds with Lena. He didn't like the direction things are going in, which seems a bit odd since the show put him on the map." There's no word on how much of Season [...]
Girls star/creator Lena Dunham and her co-showrunner Jenni Konner are teaming up again to create a new potential series for HBO, Deadline reports. It's a comedy based on Betty Halbreich, New York's preeminent personal shopper, who's spent decades shopping for and dressing rich and famous New York socialites as a personal shopper and dresser. Halbreich has worked with Joan Rivers, Meryl Streep, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Katie Couric, and helped to design the look for HBO's Sex and the City and Woody Allen's early films. In addition to her fashion sense, she's also known for her "tart one-liners." HBO optioned Betty Halbreich's upcoming memoir, All Dressed Up And Everywhere To Go, [...]
Here's Girls star and creator Lena Dunham on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson last night, with Ferguson comforting Dunham a lot and explaining the ins and outs of showbiz to her. The most important thing we learn is that Lena Dunham doesn't have the power to decide when the commercial breaks go on a late night show.
Forbes magazine put out its annual "30 Under 30" list today, and a lot of big comedy people made the Hollywood portion of the list, including Kate McKinnon (28, SNL), Aziz Ansari (29, Parks and Recreation), Maude Apatow (15, This Is 40), Lena Dunham (26, Girls), Chris Colfer (22, Glee), Greta Gerwig (29, Greenberg), Simon Rich (28, writer for SNL), and Rebel Wilson (28, Bridesmaids), plus a bunch of non-comedy people, but who cares about them, right? And what about that 8-year-old who created Axe Cop? Is he not eligible for this list? Talk about a snub! He's waaaayyy under 30 and he already created a TV show. Get [...]
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.
Lena Dunham wrote a personal essay called "A Box of Puppies" that appears inThe New Yorker this week. It's worth the read if you like Lena Dunham's writing and/or puppies.
HBO has officially renewed Lena Dunham's series Girls for a third season consisting of 12 episodes, expanding from the previous season orders of 10 each. We reported the news first in November when Judd Apatow blabbed about the show receiving a third season renewal before the second season even started airing, and this week, Lena Dunham told Alec Baldwin Girls had been renewed during an appearance on his podcast Here's the Thing, but a press release deployed today by HBO is the first official word from the network about the third season. It's good news that fans are getting an extra two episodes next season, but it also [...]
This Sunday, the show the internet loves to argue about returns to HBO for its second season. That's Lena Dunham's Girls, of course, a half hour comedy that's been called everything from zeitgeisty to depraved to… god, I am not going to repeat that voice-of-a-generation quote that's always misinterpreted.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Over the course of its second season, Girls has solidified itself into the most analyzed show on the internet, with each episode bringing up a whole host of issues and a mountain of blog posts. While season two started out on upbeat notes with each of the titular girls going after new beginnings, the second half of the season took on darker material, turning the show from a comedy with satiric edge to more of an out-and-out drama with humorous elements.
Early in the season, Hannah and company played at adulthood, but mid-way they turned to actively coveting the lives of older, more successful people. Episode 5 was a [...]
First-time Daily Show guest Lena Dunham and Jon Stewart had a nice chat last night about the ins and outs of her newfound fame and, of course, discussed how much bile and jealousy is thrown at her on the internet, with Dunham concluding that, "You definitely do get the sense that there are some 58-year-olds who want you dead." She also discussed how much she reads about herself online, revealing that she limits herself to reading the top three items in Google News about herself. That means Lena Dunham probably won't come across this post, not that there's anything offensive to her in it anyway.
While binging on Netflix and OnDemand over the holidays, Season Three of Louie and Season One of Girls deserve back-to-back viewing.
It’s not only the best way to get a picture of what counted as avant-garde television (I’m cringing as I write that phrase) in 2012, but also helps us see how these very different shows deal with similar themes of loneliness, generational anxiety, failed aspirations, and familial love — often simply from opposite approaches. By watching each series in the context of the other’s perspective, we learn more about both.
To argue this, it’s best to look at two of their respective season’s highlights: two episodes that seem [...]
The first season of Girlscomes 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!
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