Amy Poehler is the recipient of the big "Comedy Person of the Year" prize at this year's Just For Laughs Montreal, the festival announced this morning. Awards will also go to UK filmmaker Edgar Wright for Comedy Director of the Year, Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz for Comedy Writer of the Year, and Comedy Central star Nick Kroll for Breakout Comedy Star of the Year. The two previous recipients of the Comedy Person of the Year Award are Chelsea Handler and Louis C.K. All prizes will be handed out at the Just For Laughs Awards Show on July 26th in Montreal.
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Hey, did you know that there are some new episodes of Arrested Development that came out? I'm just kidding; I know you already watched [...]
Taking full advantage of his new-found freedom at Netflix, Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz said today that some of this new block of episodes will be longer than a half-hour. In a conference call today alongside actors Jessica Walter and Jeffrey Tambor, Hurwitz admitted that he labored to get the first few episodes under the 30 minutes mark before Netflix execs said they didn't care about episode length. The episode focused on Walter's Lucille, for instance, will run about 35 minutes, though most will not be too far over the normal sitcom length.
Careful to not reveal too much too much about the new season, Hurwitz did confirm that all swearing [...]
Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz and stars Will Arnett and Jeffrey Tambor did a panel at South by Southwest this weekend in which they discussed the Arrested Development movie that this upcoming 14-episode Netflix season is leading up to. Despite the fact that no movie deal is in place and the script hasn't been written, Hurwitz says he expects that the gang will be able to get the movie made. "I'm confident that we will succeed at that," Hurwitz predicted, with Arnett adding, "There is a bigger story out there that does exist." He explained further:
"We have nothing else right now. Here’s what we have: we [...]
