Starting at 10PM on HBO tonight.
Lena Dunham’s Girls and The Duplass Brothers’ Togetherness return, respectively, for their fifth and second season tonight.
So, you can actually watch two whole different generations try and cope with crisis that’s made for critically acclaimed television.
Girls is at 10PM and Togetherness is right after 10:30PM on HBO.
The Duplass Brothers’ Togetherness is pretty much everything you would want from a TV show from Jay and Mark Duplass in how they unflinchingly explore the real and comedic tension of everyday life.
From the looks of this promo, Season 2 will be doubling down on that notion.
Catch the season premiere on Sun. Feb. 21st at 10:30PM on HBO.
John Oliver and the team at Last Week Tonight pick up where they left off months ago by delving deep into the concept of those infamous ‘voter ID laws’, finding more than adequate fodder for roast style jokes of said laws.
So, welcome back Last Week Tonight as well as wise up about what those behind the voter ID laws are really up to here.
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HBO is on a roll per usual.
Between, Silicon Valley, Veep, and Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO garnered four Writers Guild of America Awards this year. This is probably one of the few awards this awards season where the premium cable network didn’t have a streaming service like Netflix or Amazon challenging its critical acclaim supremacy.
Also, Inside Amy Schumer makes yet another victory lap with its win for “Comedy/Variety-Sketch Series”.
Here are the rest of the comedy winners announced last night:
Adapated Screenplay–The Big Short-Screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay; Based on the Book by Michael Lewis; Paramount Pictures
Comedy Series–Veep-Written by Simon Blackwell, Jon Brown, Kevin Cecil, Roger Drew, Peter Fellows, Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons, Sean Gray, Callie Hersheway, Armando Iannucci, Sean Love, Ian Martin, Georgia Pritchett, David Quantick, Andy Riley, Tony Roche, Will Smith
Episodic Comedy–Silicon Valley-Clay Tarver
Animation–Bob’s Burgers-Dan Fybel
Comedy/Variety (including Talk)-Series–Real Time with Bill Maher-Writers: Scott Carter, Adam Felber, Matt Gunn, Brian Jacobsmeyer, Jay Jaroch, Chris Kelly, Bill Maher, Billy Martin, Danny Vermont; HBO
Comedy/Variety-Music, Awards, Tributes-Specials-Jimmy Kimmel Live: 10th Annual After The Oscars Special-Written by Jack Allison, Tony Barbieri, Jonathan Bines, Joelle Boucai, Greg Dorris, Gary Greenberg, Josh Halloway, Sal Iacono, Eric Immerman, Jimmy Kimmel, Bess Kalb, Jeff Loveness, Molly McNearney, Danny Ricker, Joe Strazzullo, Bridger Winegar; ABC
Comedy/Variety-Sketch Series–Inside Amy Schumer-Head Writer: Jessi Klein Writers: Hallie Cantor, Kim Caramele, Kyle Dunnigan, Jon Glaser, Kurt Metzger, Christine Nangle, Dan Powell, Tami Sagher, Amy Schumer; Comedy Centraland Jimmy Kimmel Live: 10th Annual After The Oscars Special won for Comedy/Variety Special.
Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement-Elaine May
The full list of WGA Awards winners are here.
We’re back on the air tonight at 11 on @HBO. Does anyone on Twitter remember how to do a tv show? No reason.
So much has happened in the weeks since Last Week Tonight went on break and we’re just glad they’re back.
Don’t miss John Oliver and company at 11PM on HBO.
One of the funniest shows on television, Veep, is coming back at kind of perfect time in that the current presidential election and the one fictionalized on the show might just be equally ridiculous.
Watch the teaser for season 5 here, then look for the premiere on Sun. Apr. 24th on HBO.
Silicon Valley is on the precipice of its 3rd season and your favorite underdog tech crew is getting ready to make a stand, yet again.
Watch the teaser here, then look for the season premiere on Sun. Apr. 24th on HBO.
Last Week Tonight finally returns this Sunday on HBO, so host John Oliver stopped by Late Night with Seth Meyers.
On top of previewing what the gang at Last Week Tonight will be up to now that the 2016 Presidential Race is well underway, Oliver gives a great outsider perspective of how transcendent the Super Bowl is as well as questioning why Coldplay was there.
Thank goodness Sunday is only a few days away.
With Larry David hosting last night’s SNL, it’s imperative that the show do something involving Larry’s HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm and/or Larry as Bernie Sanders, since he was such a hit doing it the first time this season.
Thus SNL checked off two boxes with one Bern Your Enthusiasm.
It definitely plays more like an episode of Curb than a Bernie Sanders sketch, but, ehh, you’re probably ok with that.
Phil Matarese, Mike Luciano, The Duplass Brothers, and dozens of guest stars are set to bring to life human problems, more specifically New Yorker problems, hilariously to animals in a few hours. See what the process was really like in the recording studio was like in this featurette.
Animals premieres tonight at 11:30PM on HBO and, if you’re in LA, you can actually watch this premiere with Phil and Mike at The Lost Knight in Echo Park.
The full trailer for The Duplass Brothers new animated series Animals shows that even the animals of NYC still talk like born-and-bred New Yorkers.
Watch and enjoy it here, then catch the premiere on Fri. Feb 5th at 11:30PM on HBO.
Need a new Last Week Tonight fix before the official return on Feb. 14th? John Oliver and company have you got covered with a new edition of graphics they cut from the show for time.
Get that fix here.
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HBO isn’t going without a Judd Apatow-produced series on their line-up.
Pete Holmes will indeed be returning to TV, this time with a single camera comedy based on his life rather than a talk show. Crashing will follow the portion of his life following his divorce where he crashed on comedians’ couches around NYC. Fans of Holmes’ podcast You Made It Weird should be more than familiar with the subject.
Holmes created the show and will star and Judd Apatow directed the pilot and is on board as an executive producer.
This counts as three series that Judd will be overseeing this year, the other ones being the upcoming Love at Netflix and Girls, which will be coming to a close in the not so distant future.
From this latest promo for the latest season of Girls, Hannah Horvath and her girls don’t seem like they’ll disappoint in terms of seeing the sort of chaos they get drawn towards even though they didn’t think such a thing would ever happen.
Season five of Girls premieres on Sun. Feb. 21st at 10PM on HBO.
As there are a couple of weeks before HBO premieres the highly anticipated animated series Animals from The Duplass Brothers, these fantastic character posters were tweeted out by Mark Duplass.
They all give you a pretty good sense of the show and might make you secretly wish animals are like this when us humans aren’t looking.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is in a rare class of television program that can post a promo for the show that features nothing but shade thrown at the show’s host and only make the show seem only more charming. Take note who is the pull quotes are from (cough cough Trump).
We can’t wait for Last Week Tonight’s return on Sun. Feb. 14th at 11PM on HBO.
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Bill Hader as a lonely hitman finding himself amongst theater folk in LA might just be good enough for a greenlight as far as we’re concerned.
While Veep and Girls are getting into their latter seasons, HBO is readying itself for its next few comedy series in the years to come. The Duplass Brothers’ Animals is set to premiere at the end of the month and adding a pilot of Hader starring in a hitman comedy sounds like a pretty great addition to their development slate.
The project, Barry, was co-written by Hader and Alec Berg, who we hope you know from Silicon Valley and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and we sincerely hope that it makes it air just to see what the two have cooking.
With BoJack Horseman and a multitude of web series that have talking animals, it would seem anthropomorphized animated series are becoming their own sub genre.
That being said, there’s still room for more such shows as you can see with this teaser of The Duplass Brothers’ Animals.
Not only are NYC animals talking like regular New Yorkers a clever concept, but having the voice talents of Nick Kroll Matt Walsh, Steve Zissis, Adam Scott, Colbie Smulders, Marc Maron, Zach Woods, Jessica Chastain, Horatio Sanz, Kumail Nanjiani, Katie Aselton, Wanda Sykes, Paul Scheer, Rob Corddry, and Molly Shannon definitely pushes it to the next level.
Look for the premiere of Animals on Friday Feb. 5th at 11:30PM on HBO.
Looks like grounded, unflinching looks into family, relationships, love, sex, etc. are not going away in TV comedy. There’s You’re the Worst, Transparent, and Catastrophe in addition to The Duplass Brothers’ Togetherness that all do the above so well.
By the way, Jay Duplass stars in Transparent and Mark Duplass stars in Togetherness on top of working the behind the scenes with his brother just in case you want to know Jay and Mark’s imprint on this sub genre.
Here’s a trailer for season 2 of Togetherness, which promises things are only going to get more off the rails.
Look for the premiere on Sun. Feb. 21st at 10:30PM on HBO.
ICYMI: Selina Meyer and the rest of the #Veep gang return to @HBO April 24. Who have you missed most? pic.twitter.com/h1Dyd97CsD
Mark your calendars or make an event reminder or whatever else you do to make sure that remember that both Veep returns for its fifth season and Silicon Valley for its third season Sun. night on Apr. 24th.
It might even be worthy of actually catching both when they air as opposed to watching it on HBO GO or HBO Now.
#SiliconValley Season 3 premieres April 24th on @HBO.
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It’s interesting to see that 9-10 seasons was sort of a goal for sitcoms in the 90s and, in this millennium, 6 seasons is the now the benchmark for a landmark series.
Lena Dunham has got so many other things going that we’re not even aware of the full scope of what she’s working on. On top of Girls, she’s got a career as an author, movies, Lenny Letter, cameos on other shows like Scandal,
So, knowing that and knowing the journey that Hannah Horvath and company have gone through over the last few years makes it seem just about right that Dunham and HBO are coming in for a final landing on the series.
Don’t start getting remiss and teary eyed quite yet as season five hasn’t even premiered yet.
Just because the odds are stacked against you for keeping up your new year’s resolutions doesn’t mean that you have to necessarily feel bad about it.
Though Last Week Tonight is still off until Valentine’s Day, let John Oliver offer some comforting words on giving up.
John Oliver and the team at Last Week Tonight has a solid solution for at least one crisis in this country that we can manage.
FYI, be on the lookout for which camp is mentioned when there’s a camp joke since Last Week Tonight segments have their own so-called ‘easter eggs’.
If you’ve somehow not seen any HBO over the last couple of years and are wondering what all the fuss is about, this is a pretty good opportunity.
As a gift from HBO and their streaming service HBO NOW, you can now watch and share the first episodes of 12 series within their vast acclaimed catalog, free of charge.
This includes Veep, Girls, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Silicon Valley, and Eastbound & Down.
Get into it (or back into it as the case may be for many of you) here.
Togetherness is riding high with its acclaim on the wave of grounded comedy exploring relationships on television. Also, series creators Mark and Jay Duplass have seem to hit the ground running when they gave TV a shot.
This season 2 teaser for Togetherness makes it look like they’ll be keeping all of that up when the season premiere rolls around on Sun. Feb. 21st at 10:30PM on HBO.