Rashida Jones To Star in Steve Carell’s TBS Comedy Pilot ‘Tribeca’
Having Rashida Jones star in this a police procedural comedy pilot from Steve Carell should equal automatic series pick up. With that news, Carell’s Tribeca just even got more highly anticipated amongst comedy pilots this season.
Let’s see if the TV development math checks out soon.
TBS Renews The Pete Holmes Show for 13 Weeks
Many of you we were wondering what the word was on The Pete Holmes Show when it went on hiatus last year.
Luckily, the word is “renewal”.
The Pete Holmes Show just got picked up for 13 more weeks and returns to TBS on Feb. 24th, incidentally (or not so incidentally) the same day as Late Night with Seth Meyers premieres.
“Ted Turner” trying to hunt down Will Forte on a fake buffalo was pretty damn funny on Conan this week, but, if for no other reason, please watch this clip for the plethora of insulting nicknames “Turner” hurls at Conan O’Brien.
Conan O’Brien, the man who brought The Pete Holmes Show to TBS, visits Pete, just a short walk across the Warner Bros. Studios backlot, and they compare starting out in late night as well as Conan pointing out a little known fact about Pete’s body.
Watch parts one, two, three, and four now.
HBO Developing Comedy from Diablo Cody and Oprah Winfrey
Diablo Cody is having a nice year in doing a TBS talk show pilot, developing a series with Jack Black, Amanda Lund, and Matt Gourley at Fox, and now developing another series with, you did read that headline right, Oprah Winfrey at HBO.
So, 2014 could be a banner TV year for Cody and Oprah WInfrey, we’re guessing, really liked Juno.
After what we’re sure you think is a really long break, both Parks and Recreation and Eagleheart are back on the air tonight as well as the premiere of TBS’ Ground Floor which features the hysterical Rory Scovel (just watch his amazing interview with Pete Holmes that we posted below).
Basically, it’s a great night of TV that should go like this:
Parks and Recreation on NBC 8PM
Ground Floor on TBS 10PM
Eagleheart on Adult Swim 12AM
Having Rory Scovel on The Pete Holmes Show only leaves room for the highest form of goofing off as opposed to a traditional interview and makes for a whole bunch of fun in taking forever to do a bit of Rory’s, slam cemeteries, and more that you won’t see during most other late night interviews save for maybe Ferguson or Conan.
Watch parts one, two, three, and four now please.
In case you haven’t noticed, late night stand up sets are evolving into self-contained stories that don’t transition to anything. We personally think it’s great and are excited to see more than just the traditional set of “joke-joke-joke” (don’t get us wrong, that’s still great).
Still, Sean Patton’s story about his little brother’s “neuralizer” (yes, that device from Men In Black) is pretty amazing. Watch him tell it on Conan now.
Many of the sketches on The Pete Holmes Show have Pete as the worst something, despite it being, it’s own funny way, pretty damn great.
Here’s Pete Holmes as definitely one of the worst doctors to Matt McCarthy.
TBS Orders Police Procedural Spoof Pilot From Steve Carell
Called ‘Tribeca’, there’s undoubtedly going to be a crosstown rival dynamic that will happen with Brooklyn Nine Nine if Steve Carell’s pilot goes to series at TBS.
The Pete Holmes Show premiered this week and if you haven’t gotten a chance to catch it yet, please watch these two clips of his monologue, which is just Pete’s stand up and this amazing James Bond parody, which neither of is hardly topical, but damn hilarious.
Is a new era in late night on the horizon, perhaps? Watch and decide for yourself between catching your breath and laughing.
We almost forgot from our last post: The Pete Holmes Show is premiering tonight on TBS at Midnight following Conan.
Let’s all watch and then follow Shelby Fero’s lead with Pete’s classic McDonald’s line.
Get Free Tickets to “The Pete Holmes Show”
The Pete Holmes Show will be taped at Warner Brothers Studios and, as such, will need an audience for taping multiple nights a week.
Basically, if you’re in LA for any reason, just go to this.
TBS Sets Up Another Conan O’Brien-Produced Comedy
On top of having Conan, getting Deon Cole’s Black Box, The Pete Holmes Show, TBS is getting more into the Conan O’Brien business with another show.
We think it’s a pretty good move on their part.
The Pete Holmes Show is coming our way Mon. Oct. 28th on TBS at Midnight and already Pete Holmes has relaunched his website to start promoting the premiere.
Watch him attempting to do a promo with Conan O’Brien and Batman/Good Will Hunting mash up.
If you want to (and should) learn more about and get life advice from the guy, the hilarious Kurt Braunohler, who did a Kickstarter to write a joke in the sky, please watch his debut stand up set on Conan that taped yesterday right here.
Also, you can and need to pre-order his upcoming album “How Do I Land?”, which gives you the option of getting a commemorative two sided dildo.
The Final Episode of ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’ to Air February 6, 2014
So, as it stands right now, on Feb. 6th next year, Jay Leno will step down from The Tonight Show, then The Tonight Show will move to New York City with its new host Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers will take the reins to Late Night.
While that might seem momentous, don’t forget that The Arsenio Hall Show is coming back, Chris Hardwick is doing a late night talk show of sorts for Comedy Central, USA is developing a late night talk show with Will Ferrell, and Pete Holmes will be following Conan on TBS later this year.
Basically, late night’s going to get a whole lot more exciting really soon.
In part of both riding the coattails of the reality TV show Undercover Boss and Conan showing promos of “new” shows coming to TBS, Conan showed a great preview clip of “Undercover Warden”.
Whether or not you know what would happen to an Undercover Warden, this is still damn funny.
So instead of having beef with various creative endeavors that call themselves “The Midnight Show”, Pete Holmes’ show that will follow Conan this fall, specifically Mon. Oct. 28th at MIDNIGHT at TBS, will be called The Pete Holmes Show.
Watch Pete be joyful about the news as well as joyful in general on Conan last night.
If you enjoyed the hysterical Andy Peters’ travels and reporting at The Bridgetown Comedy Festival up in Portland this year through his SoundCloud podcast, Wandertown, you’ll definitely love that Peters is doing the same great running around recording all the exclusive things to be seen and heard and laughed at during the Just For Laughs Chicago this upcoming week.
Follow Andy’s wandering, interviewing, and more through JFL Chicago here starting this Tues. Jun. 11th.
Steve Agee To Be Diablo Cody’s Side Kick and Writer for Talk Show Pilot at TBS
TBS has been picking a lot of interesting projects to develop as of late and Diablo Cody’s talk show pilot just got a whole lot more intriguing with Steve Agee signing on as a sidekick. If there’s anyone that could make a Vine short film work on TV, it’d be Agee.
TBS will be one of the first channels/networks to offer complete access to whatever’s playing on air to those who choose to watch online. This means you’ll be able to watch Conan, Deon Cole and Pete Holmes’ upcoming shows, and possibly a police procedural comedy from Steve and Nancy Carell currently in development.
Now the question will become: If you’re streaming TBS online, do you still have to watch all these shows during their airtime?
So Now, Rory Scovel Will Have Been on MTV, Amazon Studios, and TBS This Year
Rory Scovel already this year has been in The Grawlix’s Those Who Can’t Amazon Studios pilot, Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous on MTV, and now will be on TBS’ latest series pick up “Ground Floor”.
Also, Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence is killing it right now (his other pilots “Enlisted” and “Undateable” that just got picked up too).
Bill Tull, Conan O Brien’s prop master, has returned to give more tips for the upcoming celebrations surrounding Cinco De Mayo. Of course, as with all Tull’s suggestions, while they do save you money, it’d probably be best to not do them around children or small animals.
D.L. Hughley & Michael Ian Black to Face Off as Bold Face Lying Game Show Hosts
TBS continues to expand their comedy brand with a game show, though with an interesting, meta twist. Both D.L. Hughley and Michael Ian Black, on the surface, play normal game show hosts, but are trying to deceive contestants to out do each other.
This could be a lot of fun.