Proceed at your own caution as there are some spoilers here.
However, given the title of the show, nothing that Jimmy and Gretchen do to each other should come as a total surprise.
In any case this new official trailer and teaser have us really chomping at the bit for the return of You’re The Worst (which has an hour long season premiere FYI) on Wednesday, September 6th at 10PM on FXx.
You’re The Worst along with Jimmy and Gretchen’s shenanigans (and by “shenanigans”, we mean the impulsive, rash decisions that constantly keep their relationship embattled) are coming back for season 4 at the end of this Summer.
See for yourself in this teaser, which, if you watch closely might hint at where Jimmy and Gretchen are at with themselves and each other.
Season 4 of You’re The Worst premieres Wednesday, September 6th on FXx.
Right now, FX is flying pretty high with all the honors and praise that they’ve garnered for Atlanta and The Americans.
With new seasons of You’re The Worst on FXx and Better Things on FX on deck, we’re confident that they’ll keep that high flying feeling going.
So, mark down September 6th, a Wednesday, and the 14th, a Thursday, to catch new seasons of each show, both critically acclaimed in their own right we might add.
FX Renews Baskets for a Third Season
If you’re FX right now, you’ve got to be feeling pretty great about staying the course.
That means The Americans, Atlanta, and Baskets are all on your channel and you’re riding high as can be with the critical praise and awards wins from the last few years.
So, renewing Baskets seems like a no-brainer.
2017 WGA Awards Winners for Comedy Include Atlanta, Last Week Tonight, and BoJack Horseman
Comedy Series-Atlanta
New Series-Atlanta
Episodic Comedy-Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Comedy/Variety Talk Series-Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
ComedyVariety Sketch Series-SNL
Comedy/Variety Special-Trumph: The Primary Election Special 2016
Animation-BoJack Horseman
Last Week Tonight, BoJack Horseman, and, with a renewed jolt from the election and Trump Administration, SNL winning WGA Awards seem to be expected.
However, Atlanta nabbing both honors for both Comedy Series and New Series is a really nice, big win for Donald Glover’s freshman series as well as FX, the rare basic cable network that can run with premium cable networks and streaming services when it comes to prestige programming.
FYI, their show The Americans won an award for Drama too.
Get the full list of winners for last night’s WGA Award winners here.
Archer: Dreamland will be a special 8th season of Archer that will have be set in a time and place of overdramatic shadows, fedoras, and fine tailoring all around.
See for yourself how classy Archer and the gang are getting in the season 8 trailer.
Then, catch the season premiere on Wednesday, April 5th on FXx.
Just a friendly reminder that you should catch the season 2 premiere of Baskets on FX tonight at 10PM before diving into watching coverage of the inauguration tomorrow and throughout the weekend.
Perhaps, without anyone noticing, Donald Glover has become a power player on his own terms on multiple fronts in Hollywood.
Think about him going from being one of the principal cast members on the beloved TV series Community to also being a stand-up comedian to dropping of all of that to start a very good run as rapper/singer Childish Gambino.
Already, that’s a hell of career.
Now, add being the key creative and star on Atlanta, one of the most critically acclaimed series of 2016 in just its first season, and scoring an overall deal at FX moving forward. Glover’s track record is now among the most impressive in entertainment. Season 2 of Atlanta can’t even debut until sometime next year because of his busy production schedule.
It would be hard to imagine Glover not getting to do whatever he wants at this point.
For the most part, the lumping of musicals with comedy gave way to the rightfully beloved La La Land sweeping up several awards at last night’s Golden Globes.
Still, Donald Glover’s dramedy set in the back-drop of Atlanta’s hip hop scene Atlanta took home Best Musical or Comedy TV series as well as a statue for Glover himself. In case you forgot, Atlanta is only on its freshman season.
FX has been really on a streak this year and is standing toe-to-toe with premium cable and streaming networks in critical acclaim. We’ll just have to see what the rest of the awards season brings.
The rest of the comedy winners for The Golden Globes this year are:
Atlanta-Best Musical or Comedy TV Series
Donald Glover, Atlanta-Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy TV Series
Tracee Ellis Ross, black-ish-Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy TV Series
Zootopia-Best Animated Feature Film
The full list of winners can be found here.
‘Archer’ Moving to FXx for Season 8 and Beyond, Sets New Direction for FXx
Archer will be moving to FXx where it will hopefully live on successfully like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has. With it being the 8th season, that’ll probably happen. More interestingly, FX head John Landgraf wants this move to signal a move towards animation for the FXx network.
Well, after all these years, it would seem that the divide between FX and FXx will come in at being live action (and series that get heavy awards consideration) on FX and animation and more pure comedy on FXx.
We’ll be curious to see where FX will take this move, especially since adult-skewing animated comedy is more crowded than it has ever been.
Just a friendly reminder that on FXx tonight:
Season 12 of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia premieres at 10PM
Season 3 of Man Seeking Woman premieres right after at 10:30PM
Just over a month from now, there will be the return of Louie Anderson as a mom, Zach Galifianakis as one of the saddest clowns ever, and Martha Kelly being Martha Kelly.
There have been plenty of short promos over the past several months, but here’s a full trailer that will satisfy, at least for a little while, your fix for more Baskets.
Season 2 is set to premiere on FX on Thursday, January 19th.
SNL, James Corden, TJ Miller, and Meryl Streep All Win Big at This Year’s Critics Choice Awards
FILM
BEST COMEDY
Central Intelligence
Deadpool *WINNER*
Don’t Think Twice
The Edge of Seventeen
Hail, Caesar!
The Nice Guys
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Ryan Gosling – The Nice Guys
Hugh Grant – Florence Foster Jenkins
Dwayne Johnson – Central Intelligence
Viggo Mortensen – Captain Fantastic
Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool *WINNER*
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Kate Beckinsale – Love & Friendship
Sally Field – Hello, My Name Is Doris
Kate McKinnon – Ghostbusters
Hailee Steinfeld – The Edge of Seventeen
Meryl Streep – Florence Foster Jenkins *WINNER*
TV
BEST COMEDY SERIES
Atlanta
Black-ish
Fleabag
Modern Family
Silicon Valley *WINNER*
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Veep
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Ellie Kemper, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live *WINNER*
Tracee Ellis Ross, black-ish
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag
Constance Wu, Fresh Off the Boat
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Anthony Anderson, black-ish
Will Forte, The Last Man on Earth
Donald Glover, Atlanta *WINNER*
Bill Hader, Documentary Now!
Patrick Stewart, Blunt Talk
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Anna Chlumsky, Veep
Allison Janney, Mom
Jane Krakowski, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt *WINNER*
Judith Light, Transparent
Allison Williams, Girls
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Louie Anderson, Baskets *WINNER*
Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Tony Hale, Veep
T.J. Miller, Silicon Valley
BEST GUEST PERFORMER IN A COMEDY SERIES
Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live *WINNER*
Christine Baranski, The Big Bang Theory
Larry David, Saturday Night Live
Lisa Kudrow, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Liam Neeson, Inside Amy Schumer
BEST ANIMATED SERIES
Archer
Bob’s Burgers
BoJack Horseman *WINNER*
Son of Zorn
South Park
The Simpsons
BEST TALK SHOW
Full Frontal With Samantha Bee
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
The Daily Show With Trevor Noah
The Late Late Show with James Corden *WINNER*
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Host TJ Miller both co-starred Deadpool and is part of the ensemble cast of Silicon Valley, which both took home Critics Choice Awards last night. This might make TJ the biggest winner of the evening.
The Late Late Show with James Corden also continues its ascent in late night by winning over all the satirical news shows and Fallon, which is pretty astounding considering that Fallon is still a ratings leader and Sam Bee, John Oliver, and Trevor Noah got special focus because of the election.
The election also put special focus on SNL with highlighting both Kate McKinnon and Alec Baldwin in their respective impressions of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and resulted in their Critics Choice wins.
Meryl Streep continues her dominance with awards in general as she indeed play a historically bad singer perfectly in Florence Foster Jenkins.
Don’t forget that FX has a nice showing here as well with wins for Louie Anderson on Baskets and Donald Glover on Atlanta. It’s further proof that FX’s programming line-up can stand with the premium cable and streaming networks.
Also, we’re glad to see BoJack Horseman taking home Best Animated Series as the show continues to evolve and get more emotionally and satisfyingly complex.
See the full list of this year’s Critics Choice Awards winners here.
FX Buys Shari Berman & Robert Pulcini’s Political Serio-Comedy “Flatlands”
When it comes to comedies on FX, they definitely look to continue standing with the premium cable networks and streaming services.
Shari Berman and Robert Pulcini, the filmmakers that brought you American Splendor are now developing a series following a Brooklyn PTA mother that becomes hungry for political power and doing whatever is necessary to gain said power.
If this goes to series, this will join FX’s current, active line-up of prestige comedies Baskets, Atlanta, and Better Things. That’s a pretty great batting order if you ask us.
FX Developing ‘Meaty’ From Samantha Irby, Jessi Klein and Abbi Jacobson
Half of Broad City plus the head of writer of Inside Amy Schumer taking on Samantha Irby’s life sounds like the right ingredients for another FX series you should keep an eye on.
Irby and Jessi Klein, who is the Inside Amy Schumer head writer, are writing and executive producing this project together with Abbi Jacobson also set to executive produce.
So, if this go to series, a good portion of the comedy landscape on television will be nicely occupied by Broad City, Better Things, Insecure, and Meaty.
Unfortunately, January, when season 2 of Baskets premieres on FX, can’t come any faster.
You might wish that it could after watching a promo like this that nail exactly what slapstick drama, the oft-used description of Baskets, really is.
FXx Is Doing Part 2 of Their Every. Simpsons. Ever. Marathon
They’re going to break their own TV marathon record simply by adding all of the new episodes of The Simpsons that have aired since the last Every. Simpsons. Ever.
This Thanksgiving, specifically Thursday, November 24th at 9AM PDT, FXx will revive one of the most successful ventures to date by airing every single episode of The Simpsons in existence back-to-back-to-back. That will take this marathon to Tuesday, December 6th at 9PM PDT.
Even though this is two months away, make plans accordingly.
FX Renews Atlanta and Better Things for Their Second Seasons
FX heard how much you like Donald Glover’s Atlanta and Pamela Adlon’s Better Things.
Just a couple of weeks in and FX has seen ratings and the great critical reception and has just ordered up another season of both Atlanta and Better Things. With a strong showing at this year’s Emmys, FX is only looking to be a stronger network to contend with than it already is.
Outstanding Comedy Series-Veep
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series-Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series-Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent
Outstanding Lead Directing for a Comedy Series-Jill Soloway, Transparent
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series-Louie Anderson, Baskets
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series-Kate McKinnon, SNL
Outstanding Variety Talk Series in a Comedy Series-Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Outstanding Variety Special-The Late Late Show Carpool Karoake Prime Time Special
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series-Peter Scolari, Girls
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Serires-Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, SNL
Outstanding Variety Sketch Series-Key & Peele
Outstanding Writing for Variety Special-Patton Oswalt, Talking for Clapping
Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series-Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang, Master of None
Here are the rest of the comedy winners for the Creative Arts Emmys and the Interactive Media Emmys as well as the complete list of Emmys winners.
For the most part, heavy perennial favorites won here, and deservingly so, like Veep, Transparent, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Key & Peele got a proper send-off for the final season with this Emmy win and what might be talked about as one of Louie Anderson’s best performances of his career in Baskets as the mother nabbed him a statue as well. Also, Master of None’s writing definitely earned its Emmy win here.
Take note of the power of premium cable and streaming services, particularly HBO and Amazon, in this round of winners.
The oft-described slapstick drama Baskets is set for its return in January 2017.
From the looks of this promo, Zach Galifianakis makes it look like it lives up to that label quite well.
Tonight at 10PM on FX, Better Things, co-created by and starring Pamela Adlon will have its series premiere.
If the early buzz surrounding it is true, FX is having a really great week with the premiere of both of this and Donald Glover’s Atlanta.
Donald Glover’s new series Atlanta continues to buzz in the morning after its premiere and to assure that keeps on going, FX has been kind enough to put the whole first episode on YouTube for your convenience.
10 on FX.
The rap dramedy set in Atlanta that Donald Glover has described as a “Twin Peaks with rappers” called Atlanta finally premieres tonight.
To get you in the mood, here’s a really pretty montage from the show that really shows what “Twin Peaks with rappers” might look like.
The Strain, the apocalyptic vampire series that drew criticism right out of the gate for its graphic billboards, is coming up to the premiere of its 3rd season and is trying its hand at a comedic promo.
While the controversy of creatures coming out of eyes proved fruitful for the show, this Stirgoi, the vampires in The Strain, recruitment video has us a little more on board (for the show, not becoming a vampire).
After several months of teases and promos, the hip hop dramedy Atlanta from Donald Glover has finally got a full trailer that really shows off all the colors the show will be painting with on the canvas of Atlanta’s hip hop scene.
With Empire already being well established at this point, Atlanta looks like, from the trailer, it could definitely be a more nuanced and satirical contemporary.
Look for the series premiere of Atlanta on September 6th on FX.