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It is very sad to see a monkey die. That fact is not in question. If there’s any reason to care about “Marvel’s Hit Monkey,” the latest Hulu attempt to slap some title branding on a comic book adaptation in the hopes of luring in some eyeballs, it’s that someone should definitely answer for the monkeys dying.

As the name of the show might indicate, the one to mete out that vengeance is Hit-Monkey, a Japanese macaque whose quest to track down those responsible for the murder of his tribe leads the 10-episode season along a river of blood and a dense network of criminals and assassins. Monkey’s compatriot along the way is human hitman Bryce (Jason Sudeikis), dispensing his workmanlike knowledge of the Tokyo underworld to help guide Monkey through the big city.

If this were actually Monkey’s show, “Hit-Monkey” would be better for it.

CBS has handed pilot orders to two untitled half-hour comedies: one inspired by TikTok star Sarah Cooper’s book How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings, from writer Cindy Chupack and producers Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi; and one based on professional bowler Tom Smallwood’s life, from writer Mark Gross and producers David Hollander and Brian D’Arcy James. Both projects hail from CBS Studios.

They join recently ordered hourlong pilot True Lies, based on the movie, as well as several 2020 pilots from last year that were pushed by the pandemic. The network also has a CSI revival and NCIS and FBI spinoffs in the works.

The single-camera Cooper/Chupack comedy, which CBS landed last summer with a script commitment plus penalty, was co-written by Cooper and Chupack. It revolves around three women at different stages in their careers at a male-dominated company who help each other...

Exclusive: In a competitive situation, CBS has given a script commitment with penalty to How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings, a single-camera comedy inspired by TikTok star Sarah Cooper’s book. The project hails from Cooper, Cindy Chupack (Sex and the City), Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi’s PatMa Productions and CBS Television Studios.

Thanks to her breakout online video lip-sync impressions of President Donald Trump, Cooper has emerged as the “it” comedy talent of the moment. She just set her first comedy special at Netflix, which is slated to premiere this fall.

Co-written by Cooper and Chupack, How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings revolves around three women at different stages in their careers at a male-dominated company who help one another navigate modern gender politics in their careers and in their personal lives.

Cooper and Chupack, who also serves as showrunner, executive produce with PatMa’s Tassler,...

Best-selling author and comedian Sarah Cooper, known for her breakout online video lip-sync impressions of President Donald Trump, has set her first comedy special at Netflix. Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine is slated to premiere globally on the streaming giant this fall.

The variety special will feature vignettes “dealing with issues of politics, race, gender, class, and other light subjects,” according to Netflix. Cooper will be joined by special guests who will participate in short interviews, sketches and more.

The special will be directed by Natasha Lyonne and executive produced by Maya Rudolph, Danielle Renfrew Behrens and Lyonne via their Animal Pictures, along with Cooper and Paula Pell. Chris Burns of Agi Entertainment and Dan Powell of Irony Point will also serve as executive producers.

Amid coronavirus lockdowns in April, Cooper went viral with her satirical lip-sync impressions of Trump. Her ‘How To…’ videos, which she launches on TikTok and other social platforms,...

Sarah Cooper, the up-and-coming comedian who has broken out during Covid-19 with her impressions of President Trump, has signed with Wme.

The agency will rep Cooper as she receives intense interest following a series of breakout online videos. Her ‘How To…’ series, which she launches on TikTok and other social platforms have had tens of millions of views. Her impression of Trump suggesting that people inject themselves with bleach to stop Coronavirus has scored over 20M online views.

Her satirical lip-sync impressions have been praised by the likes of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Stiller, Chrissy Teigen, Ellen Degeneres and Bette Midler.

Jerry Seinfeld is also a fan and told Deadline, “I discovered Sarah Cooper the other day, somebody sent a little video of her acting out the Trump inject yourself with bleach idea. I thought she made that a lot funnier than it might have been because she performed it so well.

“Archer” creator Adam Reed knows that on modern television, death can be disposable.

“If you think interest is flagging, that’s always a great way to make people pay attention,” Reed said in an interview with IndieWire. Even though Reed said he’s “always volunteering to kill Ray,” the character he’s voiced for nine seasons, the writer doesn’t treat his characters as a mere means to make headlines — even the small ones. In Season 5, a perpetually bulletproof recurring character named Brett Bunson took a fatal shot to the head.

“We all took that really hard at the office because Neal Holman, our art director, has always voiced Brett,” Reed said. “We all miss Brett, but we can’t bring him back unless you want to do some crazy retcon, and then it sort of lowers the stakes.”

The death of a minor character like Brett may not be...

The new issue of Entertainment Weekly boasts a six-page article on the hit FX spy spoof Archer, an interview with star H. Jon Benjamin, and creator Adam Reed’s favorite episodes. (Elsewhere on EW.com you’ll find an exclusive photograph of the entire Archer “cast” and a guide to the show’s running gags.) But how exactly does the Archer behind-the-scenes team create the show’s remarkable animation? Using a recent sex scene between Sterling and supposed Colombian drug cartel godmother La Madrina as an example, art director Neal Holman details the crafting of the Sterling sausage. (Phrasing!!!)

Neal Holman...

Was it easy to photograph the entire cast of Archer for a feature about the hit FX show in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly? Not really. Were we surprised when they arrived with an ocelot, a literal ton of cocaine, and several boxes of the now-available-to-buy eponymous album from Cherlene? Yes, absolutely. Did a large quantity of the aforementioned cocaine disappear down the gullet of a certain Isis human resources director in the course of the shoot? We’re going to have to take the Fifth on that.

Above, you can check out Malory, Woodhouse, Cyril, Krieger (and his virtual girlfriend), Sterling Archer,...