Jim Jefferies Taping New Special This Weekend in Boston
The Wilbur Theater will be host to the amazing Jim Jefferies’ latest stand-up special coming this weekend. If you’re around Boston, MA at all, which is probably most of you folks on the East Coast, and can go, we definitely say go.
Dan Harmon Explains Being in The “Eh” Column About Community Going Elsewhere
This morning, Dan Harmon, the creator of Community, gave his expanded thoughts on the cancellation of Community by NBC, not being hyped for it going off-network, and the love of his fans.
Disregard any “talks” or “rumors” about Community in place of reading this.
Jane Krakowski Joins Tina Fey and Robert Carlock’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Jane Krakowski joins up with Tina Fey again in her and Robert Carlock’s series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt over at NBC. Ellie Kemper is set to topline as a former cult member with Jane Krakowski playing a mother who hires her as a nanny, but we’re excited at the prospect of Fey and Krakowski having a sort-of real life version of the Lemon-Maroney dynamic they had on 30 Rock.
We’re sure there will be plenty of side-by-side memes between this and 30 Rock when we get to see a teaser, etc.
Parks and Recreation 7th Season To Be Its Last
Parks and Recreation has had a great run at NBC, but the network has decided to make its upcoming 7th season the final one for Leslie Knope and co.
With both Community and Parks and Recreation out, NBC is definitely rebranding their comedy. We’ll see how that will play out with bringing in Bad Judge, Marry Me, Mission Control, A to Z, and Mysteries of Laura.
NBC Orders 3 Female Led Comedies ‘One Big Happy,’ ‘Mission Control,’ ‘Bad Judge’
Now that space is cleared out after so many shows got the chop this week, NBC has ordered 3 comedy series, all led by women. Liz Meriwether’s comedy One Big Happy focused on a lesbian starting a family, Gary Sanchez Productions’ 60’s space program workplace comedy Mission Control starring Krysten Ritter, and Bad Judge starring Kate Walsh as an edgy judge all got series orders yesterday.
We do miss Community dearly, but we are excited to see what comes from this new crop.
Ken Marino and Erica Oyama Sell ‘Me Time’ to Universal
Ken Marino and Erica Oyama from Burning Love are at it again as they have sold their latest feature project Me Time to Universal. It’s loosely “described as a female road comedy in the same vein as Planes, Trains, and Automobiles”.
Let’s hope this gets fast tracked, made, and released in theaters before too long.
The Minority Report With Larry Wilmore To Replace The Colbert Report in Jan. 2015
All your bated breaths can now be let go. A Daily Show correspondent will indeed replace Stephen Colbert when he leaves for The Late Show to replace David Letterman starting in Jan. 2015 (coupled with Ferguson’s exit at the end of this year, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert should start around the same time).
Senior Black Correspondent Larry Wilmore, who’s credits run also include The Office and a Showtime special, will host The Minority Report with Larry Wilmore following The Daily Show and we challenge the Internet to be upset with this choice.
Community made it to only five seasons of its six seasons and a movie goal before getting the axe by the peacock (why isn’t there a meme or .gif of a peacock with an axe yet?).
If you’re feeling real sore about it, you should check out Dan Harmon’s other show at Adult Swim, Rick and Morty because it’s also pretty damn great.
If you guys remember when Jack McBrayer and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog visited the infamous Weiner Circle in Chicago, you’ll know a series where the two play unlikely buddies should be pretty great.
In fact, it’s so great that Adult Swim broke their 15 min. mold and is making this a full-fledged half hour series.
Barry Rothbart Recording Comedy Album This Weekend in Atlanta
The very funny Barry Rothbart who splits his time between NYC and LA and everywhere else in between is now recording a comedy album at The Laughing Skull in Atlanta, GA this weekend. It will be another release from the very cool A Special Things Records label.
There’s six shows between tonight through Sun. and we highly suggest you attend if you can.
Season 2 of Maron Premieres Tonight on IFC
Tune into IFC at 10PM tonight to catch the premiere of season 2 of Maron/Marc Maron deal with being a guest on Talking Dead next to Michael Ian Black.
NBC Orders David Caspe’s “Marry Me” to Series Starring Casey Wilson
NBC has ordered their latest comedy series Marry Me from Happy Endings’ David Caspe. Casey Wilson and Ken Marino will star opposite from each other, which should make for a lot of fun as Capse and Wilson last worked together on Happy Endings and are now engaged.
Ian Roberts & Jay Martel To Be Showrunners on TV Land Comedy Pilot ‘Teachers’
Ian Roberts, who you should know as one of the UCB 4, along with Jay Martel are producers on Key & Peele that will be headed over to TV Land to work on a comedy pilot entitled ‘Teachers’ produced by Alison Brie.
Hopefully, as the project is set in a school, we wonder if Key & Peele would mispronounce white kids’ names while taking roll in some sort of a cameo.
Adult Swim Orders ‘Neon Joe Werewolf Hunter’ Pilot From Jon Glaser
Never will have werewolf hunting look so awesome as when Jon Glaser will don neon and Coors Silver Bullet sweatpants to be Neon Joe Werewolf Hunter.
Neon Joe is one of many Glaser’s unforgettable characters that you might have seen on Conan a couple of years ago and you’ll hopefully see on TV if Adult Swim orders this to series.
Terry Crews Named New Host Of ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’
Well, this ought to be fun. Terry Crews is set to host the 13th season of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and we can only hope that he tackles someone’s lifeline for giving them the wrong answer.
TBS Orders Steve Carell’s Police Comedy ‘Angie Tribeca’ Starring Rashida Jones
We were wondering what happened with this pilot formerly known as Tribeca because, just from the folks involved Steve and Nany Carell as well as Rashida Jones and the spare details available, it still sounded pretty great.
Angie Tribeca is set for a ten episode run at TBS next year.
Comedy Central Picks Up Off-Network Rights To Archer
Archer has made it into syndication folks. Reruns before midnight are set to air exclusively at Comedy Central starting as soon as Spring 2015 through 2017. FXx will air them after midnight.
So, you can binge on Archer nightly between Comedy and FXx next year.
Cristela Alonzo & Jerrod Carmichael Pilots Could Still Be Picked Up to Series
According to the analysis by Deadline Hollywood at the link, projects that were, originally, barely pilots by Cristela Alonzo and Jerrod Carmichael are testing pretty well and have a lot of buzz about them at ABC and NBC, respectively.
Keep your fingers crossed as you probably already have for both of these to get picked up to series soon.
Fox Orders 10 Additional Episodes of Mulaney
Fox’s Kevin Reilly is really doubling down on ditching the pilot season model as Fox has just ordered ten more episodes of John Mulaney’s multi-cam sitcom Mulaney. This will bump the show up to a 16 episode first season, a rarity these days to the normal 6-8 episode order for new shows.
Hopefully, this move will work out in the long run, both for Mulaney and TV series, in general, getting a bit of a chance to develop.
IFC Has New, More Fitting Logo
Given the prevalence of offbeat comedy at IFC these days, this new logo is definitely more appropriate, wouldn’t you say?
There are slight echoes of Comedy Central’s old logo here, which, if you can see the small resemblance, is ironic as Comedy Central now has a logo that closer to IFC’s old one. Comedy Central and IFC haven’t changed places programming wise, but IFC definitely programs much more comedy in place of the many foreign indie documentaries as they used to air ten years ago.
Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner to Star in Amy Poehler Pilot Presentation at USA Network
Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner are set to star in (and as) Difficult People, a comedy pilot presentation for USA Network with Amy Poehler executive producing.
Given all the elements involved, we have a hard time imagining this wouldn’t go to series at USA.
Jimmy Kimmel Gets a Two-Year Contract Extension at ABC
Just announced this morning, Jimmy Kimmel will continue to be the sole star of ABC’s late night line-up through the start of 2017. As it stands now, he’ll be facing off with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, whoever Comedy Central picks to replace Colbert, and Conan O’Brien directly in 2016.
With this extension in place, there has to be more curiosity with what CBS and Comedy Central are going to do.
Here’s the Full Schedule for 2014’s Comedy Central ‘Half Hour’ Specials
Starting Jun. 6th, Comedy Central’s latest row of half hour comedy specials will play every Friday (except for July 4th at midnight, two at a time.
So, you’ll catch the likes of Tommy Johnagin on Jun. 13th or Ron Funches on Jun. 20th or Fortune Feimster on June 27th, Michael Che on Jun. 6th or Mark Normand on July 18th and many more.
Mark these all down and don’t forget
‘The Comeback’ Is Officially Returning to HBO
Only having lasted one season at HBO almost a decade ago, The Comeback was very truly a cult comedy series for how fanatical the following was that it built.
Now set for six episodes back at HBO, it’ll join in the league of Arrested Development of series being brought back, seemingly, from the dead.
Key & Peele Team Up with Maker Studios for ‘Ithamar Has Nothing to Say’
Key & Peele are one of the comedy duos highest in demand right now. In addition to their hit sketch series, they’re involved in the Police Academy reboot and are in several other TV series.
Now, they’re joining together with Maker Studios, one of the biggest studios for the “digital space” of the web, to make Ithamar Has Nothing to Say starring Ithamar Enriquez a web series that’s been described by an industry source as “Mr. Bean” meets “Louie” meets “Walter Mitty.“ Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele will also be in it.
So, we’re completely on board for all of this and hope it comes out soon.