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Leslie Knope and Ron Swans–, Er, Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman Will Be Hosting a Competitive Crafts Show on NBC

March 28, 2017

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Leslie Knope and Ron Swans–, Er, Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman Will Be Hosting a Competitive Crafts Show on NBC

Sure, they’ll be hosting as themselves and not their respective roles on Parks and Recreation.

That being said, The Handmade Project, just sounds like a sequel to the season 4 episode where Leslie and Ron had competing youth programs.

Also, Amy’s Paper Kite Productions will be handling this series, which, in addition to makes us believe that it’ll be much different from other competitive reality shows.

NBC Renews The Good Place for Season 2

January 30, 2017

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NBC Renews The Good Place for Season 2

With a second season on the way, series creator Mike Schur can take his most high concept comedy yet in The Good Place and take into even more daring territory.

If you look how Schur’s Parks and Recreation progressed over the seasons, there’s a lot to be excited for the future of the show.

3rd Attempt to Make US Version of Cult UK Comedy “Pulling”, Co-Created and Starring Sharon Horgan, Happening at NBC

November 7, 2016

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3rd Attempt to Make US Version of Cult UK Comedy “Pulling”, Co-Created and Starring Sharon Horgan, Happening at NBC

It looks like one way or another, a U.S. version of Pulling will make it to television.

A decade ago, Sharon Horgan started off her rise in comedy with co-creating (along with Dennis Kelly) and co-starring in Pulling, a hit UK sitcom following the lives of three 21st century women living together. Since then, Horgan has worked her name into the States with the critically acclaimed Catastrophe.

Either making things come full circle or complete her rise in America (Horgan also has a bunch of other irons in the TV fire including being involved in HBO’s Divorce), NBC is developing an American adaptation of Pulling that will be written by Wendy and Lizzie Molyneux from Bob’s Burgers. Previous attempts to make this happen at ABC have gone nowhere (including one with June Diane Raphael, Jenny Slate, and Kristen Schaal), but maybe the timing was just off.

Certainly, Horgan has way more pull in the US than in years past.

Mike Schur Just Got Another Comedy Project, Actionland, in Development at NBC, This Time with Matt Hubbard

October 31, 2016

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Mike Schur Just Got Another Comedy Project, Actionland, in Development at NBC, This Time with Matt Hubbard

NBC really doesn’t want to let Mike Schur make another hit show anywhere else.

Again, Mike Schur hasn’t gotten The Good Place isn’t even picked for a second season yet and he already has Landlords in development at NBC with Matt Murray and, on top of that, just gotten to develop another comedy project with another Matt.

Actionland, written by Matt Hubbard, will be a workplace comedy set at below average amusement park in Arizona. There’s a lot of potential to be had there, especially since the staff of amusement parks have proven to be a solid catalyst for comedy.

If these two projects go to series, Schur could be in rare company by having more than a few sitcoms on network TV at the same time.

Already, NBC Is Developing Another Comedy with Mike Schur and Matt Murray

October 29, 2016

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Already, NBC Is Developing Another Comedy with Mike Schur and Matt Murray

Mike Schur’s The Good Place hasn’t even gotten renewed yet, but NBC what’s to double down on being in the Schur/Murray business.

Matt Murray, who has worked with Schur on Parks and Recreation, The Good Place, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, is writing the script for this project that focuses of a couple that becomes first time landlords. It currently has a put pilot commitment and is simply called “Landlords”.

Perhaps, this bodes well for The Good Place? If so, 2017 might be another banner year for Schur and co.

Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, and Seth Meyers Are Going Live Tonight After Debates

September 26, 2016

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In case you need an immediate palate cleanser, just wait an hour (give or take a few or more extra hours depending on what side of the country you live on).

In order to get the very first jokes on TV about the first 2016 presidential debate, three late night programs will be going live after the debates.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 11:35PM on CBS
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah 11PM on Comedy Central
Late Night with Seth Meyers 11:35PM on NBC

For the East Coast, these will actually be live as opposed to West Coast delay, so if you have access to an the EST feed of CBS, Comedy Central and NBC, try and watch it at 8PM PDT.

Also, keep in mind that Full Frontal with Samantha Bee is airing on Wednesday this week in order to fully soak in the debate for their episode. #CUNW

The Good Place Premieres This Week, Starting Tonight, with Three Episodes

September 19, 2016

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Mike Schur is returning to television after having his series Parks and Recreation end perfectly last year.

His new show, The Good Place, is premiering tonight with back-to-back episodes starting at 10PM on NBC. The third episode will air on Thursday at 8:30PM, their actual weekly time slot.

We hope this will be a good start to NBC’s new comedy line-up for this fall.

NBC Buys Antarctica Office Comedy From Steven Davis and Kelvin Yu

September 13, 2016

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NBC Buys Antarctica Office Comedy From Steven Davis and Kelvin Yu

Perhaps, it’s a Northern Exposure for 2016 set in Antarctica with a female lead?

NBC Buys Coming-Of-Age Comedy From Kourtney Kang, Nahnatchka Khan, and Fred Savage as Put Pilot

September 9, 2016

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NBC Buys Coming-Of-Age Comedy From Kourtney Kang, Nahnatchka Khan, and Fred Savage as Put Pilot

Wonder Years, but from the perspective of a mixed teenage girl from Philly?

A lot of sitcom forces are coming together here as Fresh Off The Boat creator Nahnatchka Khan and co-executive producer Kourtney Kang are teaming up with ~~Kevin Arnold~~ Fred Savage to make a new coming-of-age comedy that follows Kang’s experiences as a girl in a mixed-race family in the Philadelphia suburbs.

NBC seems to have just checked the boxes for both diversity and nostalgia in one fell swoop.

SNL Vets Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah Not Returning for Season 42

August 9, 2016

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SNL Vets Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah Not Returning for Season 42

Each had six seasons of Saturday Night Live under their belt and are now free to explore other projects like Killam was already doing with a movie he was directing.

We’re guessing that Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah might take a slightly different route post-SNL given their specific comedic skill sets as compared to recent SNL alums like Kristen Wii and, Fred Armisen. That being said, we can see Killam follow the model of Jason Sudeikis’ very successful film and TV career that now spans comedy and drama given that filled a very similar role on Saturday Night Live.

Hulu Shifting Its Free TV Offerings to New Yahoo View | Hollywood Reporter

August 8, 2016

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Hulu Shifting Its Free TV Offerings to New Yahoo View | Hollywood Reporter

If you’ve been enjoying a free ride of the five latest episodes of Black-ish, Fresh Off the Boat, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Last Man on Earth a few days after they air or were looking forward to streaming new network comedies like The Good Place, Making History, or Speechless, know that you’re going to probably have to make sure to do so at Yahoo View, the new TV and Hulu distribution partner site from Yahoo.

This is all now happening because Hulu is going to be a full subscription service.

Mike Schur’s The Good Place Premiering Sept. 19th

June 16, 2016

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For NBC, doing shows with Mike Schur has been a good thing (Parks and Recreation) and we can only hope that this dynamic continues with Schur’s latest show The Good Place.

There’s a lot of promise and a big literally “otherwordly” universe to explore with Kristen Bell and Ted Danson in The Good Place and you should mark down the series premiere date of Monday, September 19th.

Seth Meyers Bans Donald Trump from Being a Guest on “Late Night”

June 15, 2016

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This may be a symbolic gesture at best, but we can only hope that only a few more shows follow suit here.

As a result of Donald Trump banning The Washington Post from covering his campaign events, Late Night host Seth Meyers is banning Trump from being a guest on Late Night.

Seth announced this during his “A Closer Look” segment that delved into Trump’s bigoted response to the horrific Orlando shooting this past weekend.

Again, this may be a small push back against Trump. However, if other shows do ban him and Trump won’t get to, let’s say, play a silly game on The Tonight Show and get less airtime, this will have been worth it.

Jiminy Glick Returns in “Maya & Marty” to Interview/Get Underneath the Skin of Larry David

June 1, 2016

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One of the smartest things that NBC’s new variety show Maya & Marty could do was bring back co-star Martin Short’s beloved character Jiminy Glick.

In their premiere episode, they did just that and lined up the perfect first guest, Larry David, who barely contain himself during the interview.

Watch it here.

“Maya and Marty” Premiere Tonight on NBC

May 31, 2016

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Tonight, NBC moves forward in expanding its variety show line-up with Maya and Marty. Unlike SNL, it has two permanent hosts in Maya Rudolph and Martin Short and will very likely feature way more musical numbers.

For all of the iterations that this show has gone through in order to premiere tonight (i.e. a special with just Maya to a variety show headlined by just Maya), you should check the series premiere out to see what NBC has come up with.

Oh yeah, the pairing of the accomplished comedy stars that can sing and dance, Maya Rudolph and Martin Short, is definitely worth catching as well.

Maya and Marty premieres at 10PM on NBC.

Here’s the Trailer for Mike Schur’s New Series at NBC “The Good Place”

May 16, 2016

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Parks and Recreation may be done and gone, but Parks and Rec fans have a new Mike Schur-NBC venture to look forward to this fall: The Good Place.

Set in an afterlife that seems dreamed up by Leslie Knope, Kristen Bell plays a woman who thinks she has ended up in “the good place” by mistake. Ted Danson will guide her around as a mentor-of-sorts in trying to navigate her way around, especially since she recalls not being such a good person. There are plenty of great quirks in this afterlife universe that we can already see as potential great running gags for the series.

We’ll let the trailer take it from there.

The Carmichael Show Gets Renewed for a 3rd Season

May 15, 2016

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(via Deadline)

Phew.

Plenty of shows got cancelled this past week, which left plenty nervous for any shows whose fate had yet to be decided. Though NBC had axed Mysteries of Laura, Telenovela, Crowded, and Undateable over the last few days, The Carmichael Show hadn’t received word on where they would end up.

Fortunately, they just got the renewal order for a 13 episode 3rd season just a few hours ago and we can rest a little more soundly that one of the few critically acclaimed multi cam sitcoms will be sticking around.

Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction to Be Featured on Seeso

March 22, 2016

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It’s about time this happened.

One of the many new, exciting things that are happening at NBC’s comedy streaming service, Seeso, is a thing called The Comedy Show Show, which will feature plenty of different formats of comedy shows that have grown over the last few years.

Bryan Cook’s Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction is a prime example of such a format with comedians writing erotic fiction of a pop culture subject of their choice or by random. Having toured the country and becoming a hit podcast, it’s only logical that it would get to be featured in a series at some point.

So, a taping for Seeso’s Comedy Show Show will take place at the Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction’s current home, The Virgil, on Sunday, April 17th at 8PM (doors are at 7:30PM).

The stellar line-up features past winners including such notable comedians as:

Moshe Kasher (Netflix special “Live in Oakland”)
Eliza Skinner (@Midnight, writer ‘The Late Late Show’)
Ben Roy (Star/Co-creator ‘Those Who Can’t’ on TruTv)
Dave Hill (Author, ‘Tasteful Nudes,’ Host ‘The God Damn Dave Hill Show’ on WFMU)
Ian Karmel (Conan, writer ‘The Late Late Show’)
Guy Branum (writer, ‘Another Period,’ ‘The Mindy Project’)
Andrés du Bouchet (Writer/performer on Conan)
Jackie Kashian (Conan, album ‘This Will Make An Excellent Horcrux’)
Solomon Georgio (Conan, Viceland)

The taping is free to attend, which should give you more incentive than you already have to go to this.

Season 2 of “The Carmichael Show” Premieres Tonight and Makes Sunday Nights Its New Slot

March 13, 2016

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9PM on NBC.

You got a special preview of this brand new season of The Carmichael Show earlier this week, but now the second season really begins tonight.

So far, they’ve got cheating and Cosby on the docket in regards what they’re going to deal with on the show. Starting off that big should mean that no taboo topic will be kept quiet.

That Variety Show with Maya Rudolph and Martin Short Has a Greenlight at NBC

February 13, 2016

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(via Variety)

Did it take the success of a few live TV musicals to convince executives they should finally pull the trigger on this one?

Talk of a variety show fronted by Maya Rudolph at NBC, then later sharing top billing with Martin Short, have been around for years now. In fact, Rudolph already did a solid one-off special as a sort of proof-of-concept of the show. Yet, movement on the show from where we’re standing looked minimal at best.

Finally, this variety show with two consummate all around comedic talents (sing, dance, be funny, etc.) is going to series starting sometime in May, probably right around when Saturday Night Live has its season finale.

Speaking of which, we’re really anxious to see how a Maya and Martin variety show will fit in NBC’s comedy slate along side SNL.

Here’s a Teaser for One of Seeso’s Latest Series “Bajillion Dollar Propertie$”

February 2, 2016

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NBC’s exclusive comedy streaming service Seeso is so far making good on their promise of a continued rolled out of comedy content targeted at the comedy fans/nerds/aficionados/etc.

One of their latest series, Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, comes from Kulap Vilaysack and seems to be a great take on real estate shows like House Hunters.

Watch a preview of it featuring Adam Scott and Drew Tarver right here and, if you’re into it, sign up for Seeso here.

You, Me, and The Apocalypse Makes Its American Debut Tonight

January 28, 2016

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Jenna Fischer, Rob Lowe, and Megan Mullally all in an apocalyptic comedy sounds just fine to us.

Though it has a collection of sitcom stars from NBC’s own fold, You, Me and the Apocalypse has already premiered on the UK’s Sky 1 and is only making its way to the States starting tonight.

Watch a first look featurette here, then catch the premiere at 8PM on NBC.

Seth Meyers Has Contract for Late Night Renewed Through 2021

January 13, 2016

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(via The Wrap)

So, it’ll be Fallon and Meyers to at least 2021 on NBC’s late night block.

Jimmy Fallon has already got reupped to host The Tonight Show until 2021 and, as announced at the TCA Press Winter Tour, Seth Meyers who follows him as host of Late Night will stick with him in the 12:35AM slot for the next five years.

Above all else, this move still keeps it all of NBC’s late night fare in the Lorne Michaels-SNL family well into the future.

Here’s a Promo for “You, Me and the Apocalypse” Coming to NBC at the End of the Month

January 11, 2016

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NBC is getting in on the post-apocalyptic comedy that’s been a growing trend over the last couple of years with their latest addition to their primetime line-up.

You, Me and The Apocalypse from Iain Hollands has promise from this promo as well as Rob Lowe, Megan Mullally, and Jenna Fischer starring.

Look for its premiere on Thurs. Jan. 28th. at 8PM on NBC.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Are Hosting SNL Tonight

December 19, 2015

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Since they’ve ended their run as hosts of The Golden Globes, you’re best chance to catch Tina Fey and Amy Poehler together again is to watch as they host Saturday Night Live tonight at 11:30PM on NBC.

You can also watch Sisters, now in theaters. There’s probably something else that they’re secretly working on, but you’ll make to due with a movie and an episode of SNL.

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