Make sure you have Starz tonight.
With the forces of Jonathan Ames, Seth MacFarlane, and Sir Patrick Stewart combined, we will all get the darkly comedic cable news show Blunt Talk starting tonight at 9PM on Starz.
One of the best parts of this is that it doesn’t interfere with any of the four comedy specials also premiering tonight.
If there was one man that could transcend sexual preferences and gender norms, it would be Sir Patrick Stewart.
Watch as he leaves Conan O’Brien breathless after a passionate embrace, in a friendly way of course. We hope there’s more of this sort of thing from Stewart on Blunt Talk
Jonathan Ames and Seth MacFarlane’s Blunt Talk looks more and more like a much more fun version of The Newsroom that seems to have less rants and more of Sir Patrick Stewart really, really living it up.
He might even be overdoing it.
Watch the latest trailer here, then watch the premiere on Aug. 22nd at 9PM on Starz.
If you wish there was less histrionic ranting and more fun had with The Newsroom, this might be for you.
The only other time that Sir Patrick Stewart seems as off the wall as he will be in the new Starz’s series Blunt Talk from Jonathan Ames and Seth MacFarlane was his great appearance in a Colbert Report bit.
Just check him as a cable news anchor going about the gig like a veteran rock star in this trailer.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
One of this upcoming TV season’s most intriguing new shows is Showtime’s Blunt Talk. Not only does it have Seth MacFarlane and Jonathan Ames coming together to make a show about a Brit trying to take on American cable news, but Patrick Stewart is starring.
To make matters more intriguing, the entire cast will now include Jackie Weaver, Ed Begley Jr., Adian Scarborough, Mary Holland, Romany Malco, and Karan Soni.
There are so many different elements at work here, with the fantastic people in front of and behind the camera, but this could very well be a “Veep” of cable news.
Starz Orders 2 Seasons of Jonathan Ames-Seth MacFarlane Comedy ‘Blunt Talk’ Starring Patrick Stewart
Starz is slowly, but surely building up their comedy slate. Having two seasons of a live action comedy created by Jonathan Ames of Bored to Death fame and Seth MacFarlane executive producing is a good start.
An even better start is having that series star Patrick Stewart as an almost Ron Burgundy-esque character. With everything that this series, Blunt Talk, has going for it, it will be highly anticipated all the way until its 2015 premiere.
Stephen Colbert enlisted the help of Sir Patrick Stewart in one of the best uses of knighthood we’ve seen in recent memory on The Colbert Report last night.
Watch Stewart/Mr. Chuck Dupree detail the “horror stories” of Obamacare.