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NBC announced its winter 2022 lineup, including the final season of “This Is Us,” which premieres on Jan. 4 at 9 p.m.

On Mondays starting Jan. 3 “Kenan” will air its second season with a two-episode block at 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., followed by Jimmy Fallon’s variety game show “That’s My Jam” at 9 p.m., and “Ordinary Joe” will return with new episodes on this date at 10 p.m.

In addition to “This Is Us,” Jan. 4 will see the time period premieres of “American Auto” and “Grand Crew” at 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., respectively, and the midseason premiere of “New Amsterdam” at 10 p.m.

On Wednesdays starting Jan. 5 “Chicago Med” returns to its traditional time period at 8 p.m., followed by “Chicago Fire” and “Chicago P.D.” On Thursdays, “The Blacklist” will air at 8 p.m., followed by “Law & Order: Svu” at 9 p.m. and “Law & Order: Organized Crime” at 10 p.

Amazon Prime Video has set its all-female lineup for the second installment of Yearly Departed, its comedy special that will put 2021 to rest.

Jane Fonda (Grace and Frankie), Chelsea Peretti (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Meg Stalter (Hacks), Dulcé Sloan (The Daily Show), Aparna Nancherla (The Great North) and X Mayo (The Daily Show) will join host Yvonne Orsi in the special, along with Alessia Cara who will deliver a musical send-off to everything we are leaving behind this year.

Set for premiere on December 23 exclusively on Amazon Prime Video, this year’s eulogists will bid farewell to Hot Vaxx Summer, Hermit Life, Ignoring the Climate Crisis, and Zoom, along with a few more surprises.

The inaugural Yearly Departed, which eulogized 2020, received a WGA Award nomination in the Comedy/Variety Specials category and won a Gracie Award.

Yearly Departed hails from Amazon Studios, Done+Dusted, and Scrap Paper Pictures. The special is executive produced by Rachel Brosnahan,...

Amazon has given a green light to a second installment of Yearly Departed, a comedy special that will bid farewell to everything we’re leaving behind in 2021. Emmy-nominated Yvonne Orji (Insecure) will host the special, which again will feature an all-female lineup of guests (Tba) who will tackle some of 2021’s highlights we probably want to forget, such as Hot Vaxx Summer, Hermit Life, Ignoring the Climate Crisis, and Zoom. Yearly Departed will premiere in December exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. A specific date will be announced soon.

“In my career, I’ve been fortunate to work on a show that was created by Blacks, for Black characters, and now, I get to host a special that was written by all women, featuring a lineup of incredibly funny female comedians, directed by a talented female director, and produced by a group of amazing female producers.

Amazon Prime Video announced that the comedy special “Yearly Departed” will return for its second special this December, this time hosted by Yvonne Orji.

The new special will feature an all-female lineup of guests to be announced at a later date. They will bid farewell to the trends we are leaving behind in 2021, including hot vaxx summer, hermit life, ignoring the climate crisis and Zoom.

“In my career, I’ve been fortunate to work on a show that was created by Blacks, for Black characters, and now, I get to host a special that was written by all women, featuring a lineup of incredibly funny female comedians, directed by a talented female director and produced by a group of amazing female producers. I guess lightning can strike twice,” said Orji.

“Yearly Departed” is from Amazon Studios, Done+Dusted and Scrap Paper Pictures. The special is executive produced by Rachel Brosnahan,...

Director Linda Mendoza has more than three decades years of production experience across scripted and specials content, and ironically it was HBO’s “Greater Tuna,” which she worked on in 1984, that best prepared her for Amazon Prime Video’s “Yearly Departed.”

“Greater Tuna” featured two lead actors playing all of the roles of the inhabitants of the small-town of Greater Tuna, Texas in the comedy project, which meant its visual style needed to feature a lot of locked-off shots, with a heavy post-production lift to insert the same two actors into a scene multiple times, in each role. Because “Yearly Departed,” a “variety special meets ‘Waiting for Guffman,'” as Mendoza puts it, was filmed amid the Covid-19 pandemic, it, too, isolated performances and dropped them into the same scene via VFX.

“It was a very long process just thinking about how do you put people in a room when...

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Some of the funniest women in television are teaming up to give 2020 the mocking sendoff it deserves.

Amazon Prime Video has unveiled the trailer for “Yearly Departed,” an upcoming one-hour comedy special hosted by Phoebe Robinson (“2 Dope Queens”) that will take aim at President Donald Trump, everything that Americans lost due to the coronavirus, and a handful of other topics. The special, which Amazon has aptly billed as the “funeral for the year 2020,” stars Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), Tiffany Haddish (“Tuca & Bertie”), Patti Harrison (“Shrill”), Natasha Legerro, Sarah Silverman, Natasha Rothwell, and Ziwe.

Per Amazon, the synopsis reads: “Yearly Departed” is a series of eulogies for the year 2020, where a lineup of all-women comedians will deliver everything from casual sex to beige Band-Aids and everything in between that we’ve “lost” in 2020. After a year of societal upheaval, plague, murder hornets and banana bread, “Yearly Departed” will...

If you weren’t already in the mood to say goodbye to 2020, the trailer for Amazon’s “Yearly Departed” special will get you there, as it shows Tiffany Haddish, Rachel Brosnahan, Sarah Silverman and more iconic female comedians eulogize that “triflin’ ho” of a year.

In the preview, which you can watch via the video above, Haddish, Brosnahan, Silverman, Natasha Rothwell (“Insecure”), Patti Harrison (“Shrill”), Natasha Leggero (“Another Period”), Ziwe (“Book of Ziwe”) and host Phoebe Robinson bid farewell to a year they all hated.

“Yearly Departed” is described by Amazon as “a series of eulogies for the year 2020, where a lineup of all-women comedians will deliver everything from casual sex to beige Band-Aids and everything in between that we’ve ‘lost’ in 2020. After a year of societal upheaval, plague, murder hornets and banana bread, ‘Yearly Departed’ will give 2020 the huge send-off it deserves, from some of the world’s funniest women.

Amazon is rounding out an all-star lineup for Yearly Departed, its upcoming comedy special that will bid farewell to 2020, the year that just won’t end fast enough. Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip), Sarah Silverman, Natasha Rothwell (Insecure), Ziwe (Book of Ziwe), Natasha Leggero (Another Period) and Patti Harrison (Shrill) are set for the special that will premiere December 30th exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. Yearly Departed hails from Amazon Studios and Done + Dusted.

Per Amazon, Yearly Departed is a series of eulogies for the year 2020, where a lineup of all-women comedians will deliver everything from casual sex to beige Band-Aids and everything in between that we’ve “lost” in 2020. After a year of societal upheaval, plague, murder hornets and banana bread, Yearly Departed will give 2020 the huge send-off it deserves, from some of the world’s funniest women.

The six join previously announced Rachel Brosnahan,...

Phoebe Robinson of “2 Dope Queens” fame and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” star Rachel Brosnahan are teaming up to wave a fond (or not so fond) farewell to 2020.

The duo have set a comedy special at Amazon called “Yearly Departed,” which will feature an all-women lineup of comedians delivering delivering a series of eulogies for the year. Robinson will host the special, and Brosnahan will appear in addition to executive producing.

“Yearly Departed,” which is slated to premiere sometime this winter, will see the comedians tackle everything from casual sex to beige Band-Aids, as well as reflecting on everything that we’ve “lost” in 2020. Brosnahan exec produces alongside Paige Simpson, David Jammy, Katy Mullan, Samantha Ressler, Nathalie Love, and Bess Kalb, with the latter serving as head writer.

“I can’t imagine a better way to lay this unfathomably awful year to rest than giving some of the world’s funniest women the last word.

Amazon is preparing to read 2020 its eulogy with an upcoming comedy special hosted by “2 Dope Queens” star Phoebe Robinson.

Called “Yearly Departed,” the “funeral” special will feature a lineup of all-women comedians and is set to debut this winter on Amazon Prime Video. “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” star Rachel Brosnahan will executive produce and make an appearance.

The special is described as “a series of eulogies for the year 2020, where a lineup of all-women comedians will deliver everything from casual sex to beige Band-Aids and everything in between that we’ve ‘lost’ in 2020. After a year of societal upheaval, plague, murder hornets and banana bread, ‘Yearly Departed’ will give 2020 the huge send-off it deserves, from some of the world’s funniest women.”

More performers and the official premiere date will be announced later on.

In addition to Brosnahan, “Yearly Departed” is also executive produced by Paige Simpson, David Jammy, Katy Mullan,...

Is it over yet? Not quite. Amazon will say farewell to 2020 with Yearly Departed, a new comedy special hosted by comedian Phoebe Robinson (2 Dope Queens) and executive produced by The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel‘s Rachel Brosnahan, who will also appear. Yearly Departed will premiere this winter exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. The special hails from Amazon Studios and Done + Dusted.

Per Amazon, Yearly Departed is a series of eulogies for the year 2020, where a lineup of all-women comedians will deliver everything from casual sex to beige Band-Aids and everything in between that we’ve “lost” in 2020. After a year of societal upheaval, plague, murder hornets and banana bread, Yearly Departed will give 2020 the huge send-off it deserves, from some of the world’s funniest women.

Brosnahan executive produces with Paige Simpson, David Jammy, Katy Mullan, Samantha Ressler, Nathalie Love, and Bess Kalb,...

Tanya Wexler’s new film “Buffaloed” is “Wolf of Wall Street” but with a feminist twist, with Zoey Deutch scamming her way to the top. Peg Dahl (Deutch) is a self-proclaimed “aggressive little s—” who is obsessed with making enough cash to escape her blue-collar existence. With an unquenchable thirst for power, Peg finds her calling in the underground world of debt-collecting #DollarSignEmoji.

WrapWomen recently caught up with director Tanya Wexler who took us behind the scenes of the film (now available on DVD and VOD), revealed what she learned from Deutch and gave advice to aspiring female directors.

What about “Buffaloed” made you realize, “I need to be a part of this!”

I found out that Zoey Deutch was attached and I was a huge fan, and then I read the script and it was hilarious. I couldn’t imagine a better marriage of an actress to a role.