If Greg Davies was running TV, new comedy shows would get a two-season order. The comedian and writer, who fronts fronts the hit series Taskmaster in the UK and writes and stars in sitcom The Cleaner for the BBC, was asked what he would change about the business during a the closing session of the
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EXCLUSIVE: Crave’s comedy Late Bloomer will spring into life this week, and here’s a first trailer for the Canadian sitcom. The eight-part series is inspired by the life of life of Canadian-born Punjabi Sikh Millennial comedian and online content creator Jasmeet Raina (aka Jus Reign) launches on Friday (January 19). It comes from Crave parent
Netflix‘s Wellmania is leaving the gym for the final time, its star Celeste Barber has said — and she isn’t happy about it. Barber posted an update on Instagram revealing that she has been informed the show will not be returning for a second season. The first debuted in late March. “Netflix said it’s something
Bad Bunny made his SNL debut tonight and it’s every Latin American’s Spanglish dream come true. From his shout-out to Sabado Gigante—the Spanglish-language game show that aired for 53 years on Univision—to his hilarious collaborations with Marcello Hernandez and special appearances by fellow Latinos Fred Armisen and Pedro Pascal, as well as fellow superstars, Mick
It’s been a tough week in the world, and that posed a difficult challenge for Bill Maher on his Real Time show on Friday. How do you conduct a show built on political comedy when the subject matter is so grim? But Maher navigated the thorny issues with grace, finding the humor in throwbacks to
Bill Maher was off television for five months, thanks to the WGA strike. So naturally, he had a lot to catch up on in Friday’s edition of Real Time on HBO. Maher kept the focus squarely on politics in his opening monologue and in his panel discussion, with particular emphasis on covering the immigration border
Chloe Troast is the newest member of the cast of Saturday Night Live, Deadline reported exclusively today. She is the only addition for the upcoming Season 49. Troast has worked closely with SNL’s Please Don’t Destroy trio – the writing and performing group that consists of Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy. Troast is set to
On the most recent episode of Mark Maron’s WTF podcast, Chevy Chase again addressed his departure from and, more obliquely, his feud with show creator Dan Harmon. “I honestly felt the show wasn’t funny enough for me, ultimately. I felt a little bit constrained,” he said. “Everybody had their bits, and I thought they were
EXCLUSIVE: Patricia “Ms. Pat” Williams (The Ms. Pat Show) is taking on the role of TV judge in the upcoming new series Ms. Pat Settles It, premiering October 18 at 10 p.m. ET/PT to air on BET. Deadline has your first look at the trailer above. In Season 1, Williams assembles a jury of her
Whoopi Goldberg is coming to the defense of Hasan Minhaj, who has received some criticism after acknowledging that he has embellished stories that were basically based in fact in his stand-up routines. “That’s what we do” (as comedians), Goldberg said during Monday’s The View. “That’s what we do, we tell stories and we embellish them.”
On Wednesday’s episode of Saturday Night Live alums Dana Carvey and David Spade’s “Fly on the Wall” podcast, it was revealed that Hillary Clinton was upset with Julia Sweeney’s SNL impression of a teenaged Chelsea Clinton. The former Secretary of State “wrote a letter” to SNL creator Lorne Michaels about the sketch, which aired on
A horse is a horse, of course, of course. And riding them can be a challenge, as Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang recalled on a recent episode of his Las Culturistas podcast. Yang’s experience with death by horse came while riding horseback on the set of Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens in Iceland. “Actually,
EXCLUSIVE: The cameras will soon start rolling on the highest-profile French series to be remade in the U.S., ABC’s High Potential, with the show’s seller believing this latest remake will catapult it to “global brand” status. High Potential was recently taken from pilot to series in the U.S., becoming one a number of global remakes
Disney has struck a multi-show deal with Channel 4 for the UK network’s rebranded streaming service including the likes of The X Files, Abbott Elementary and Bones. As Channel 4 continues to add boxsets to its recently rebranded SVoD, which is also called Channel 4, the network has taken the 10 Disney series from this
EXCLUSIVE: Russell Weissman has been upped to Chief Operating Officer at All Things Comedy, the prolific production company and podcast network founded by comics Bill Burr and Al Madrigal. In his new role, Weissman will lead audience strategy and oversee distribution, sales, business development and podcasts. He will also support the founders and development teams
Comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan will do a four-arena tour together this fall. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. The upcoming dates include Friday, November 3, at the Chase Center in San Francisco; Saturday, November 4, at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles; Friday, November 10, in Chicago; and Saturday, November 11, at
In a studio overlooking Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, Rian Johnson is strapped to a lie detector machine. Next to him at the controls sits Natasha Lyonne, twiddling the device’s knobs with all the sinister intent of a supervillain. This photoshoot tableau is, of course, ripped right from the Meet the Parents Ben Stiller-Robert De Niro interrogation
Sharon Horgan is a bigger fan of the UK TV pitching system than the U.S., to say the least. “No one lies to you [in the UK],” she told a BBC Comedy Festival keynote this afternoon. “You don’t get bullsh**ted. I’ve been in U.S. [pitching] rooms where they tell you a show is happening, you
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