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Get Your First Look at Single Drunk Female Season 2

March 30, 2023

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Season 1 of Single Drunk Female brought a frank, touching, yet funny warts-and-all look at getting sober that was a shining star for Freeform. Sofia Black-D’Elia proved to be a pretty perfect lead for someone who earnestly wants to do better, but struggles with their own booze-soaked demons and joined by a splendid turn by Ally Sheedy as her mother who is, well, doing her best for both her daughter and herself.

The trailer for Season 2 of Single Drunk Female just dropped this week and is throwing everything that Black D’Elia’s Sam can handle in her still early stages of sobriety (and plenty more after that). Looks like the series will, qualitatively, be picking up right where they left off from their acclaimed first season.

See for yourself here, then look for episodes of Single Drunk Female season 2 on Apr. 12th on Freeform and then on Hulu the next day.

Jamie Lee Developing Subversive Rom Com ‘The Girlfriend’ Over at Freeform

January 29, 2019

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Jamie Lee Developing Subversive Rom Com ‘The Girlfriend’ Over at Freeform

The romantic comedy genre is beginning to get turned inside out these days and we’re on board for it. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has gained acclaim from the get-go by re-examining gender roles and stereotypes to catchy songs from every genre and there’s a feminist answer to Kevin Can Wait called Kevin Can F*** Himself in the works at AMC.

To add to that, the whipsmart Jamie Lee is now writing her own unique, dark rom com that follows the girlfriend of a husband who is the prime suspect in his wife’s disappearance (kind of like Emily Ratajkowski in Gone Girl, right?). Seeing this sort of woman’s story beyond her being a usually one-dimensional character along with Lee’s impeccable comedic writing will undoubtedly be fascinating.

So, we hope this gets a greenlight at Freeform.

Alone Together Starring and Co-Created Esther Povitsky and Benji Aflalo Gets a 2nd Season Before Series Premiere

October 21, 2017

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Alone Together Starring and Co-Created Esther Povitsky and Benji Aflalo Gets a 2nd Season Before Series Premiere

New cable network on the scene, Freeform, is doubling down on the sitcom Alone Together.

Comedians Esther Povitsky and Benji Aflalo star and co-created the series with Eben Russell along with the Lonely Island trio, Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer attached as producers.

Freeform is giving them a second season, which automatically makes Alone Together one of their more high profile shows right out of the gate.

Get a taste of what’s coming in January with this trailer.

Iliza Shlesinger to Get Her Own Weekly Late Night Show on Freeform

April 4, 2017

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Iliza Shlesinger to Get Her Own Weekly Late Night Show on Freeform

Well, late night is really getting shaken up this week.

Comedy Central announced the addition of two late night series, The President Show with Donald Trump as played by Anthony Atamanuik and a Daily Show companion series hosted by Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper.

Also, Fox News just cancelled its own late night comedy series Red Eye.

On top of all of that, Iliza Shlesinger is getting her own weekly late night show on cable network Freeform called Truth & Iliza. She’ll be focused on a specific theme with each episode, then have segments, field pieces, etc. go from there.

Truth & Iliza is set to premiere on Tuesday, May 2nd at 10PM.

If you take a look at the late night landscape, it’s getting bigger than ever since more of cable has joined the fray with options diverting far from the traditional late night talk show format.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Desus & Mero, Throwing Shade, and more offer a stark contrast to Fallon, Colbert, Kimmel, Corden, and Meyers on broadcast networks.

The three newly announced late night shows with Iliza, Klepper, and Atamanuik are sure to add to that growth.

Freeform Developing Late Night Series with Iliza Shlesinger

September 23, 2016

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Freeform Developing Late Night Series with Iliza Shlesinger

Well, if everything goes according to Freeform’s plan, there will be three female hosts in late night.

Details are sparse at this point, probably because cable network Freeform sees that there is plenty of shows that follow the traditional late night talk show format and they want to work with Iliza Shlesinger to develop something that caters to her comedy.

So, thankfully, the boys club is becoming a boys club less and less everyday.