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A new video has been released for Tom Petty’s Wildflowers-era rarity, “You Saw Me Comin’,” which will appear on the upcoming release, Finding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions), out April 16th.

The new video was directed by Joel Kazuo Knoernschild and Katie Malia, who pair the simmering rocker with an array of stunning natural scenes. Every now and then, the footage is reversed or flipped, injecting a somewhat surreal element into all that serenity.

In a statement, the Heartbreakers’ Benmont Tench said of “You Saw Me Comin’,” “There’s this kind of longing in the song,...

Exclusive: Kevin Frakes and Raj B. Singh have tapped Evan Shapiro to become president of National Lampoon. Frakes and Singh, who bought the brand two years ago, have also acquired Shapiro’s eshapTV and will fold the comedy projects he has been developing into the National Lampoon brand.

PalmStar media spent $12 million in 2017 to acquire all the assets of the brand, including the National Lampoon trademark and a library of print, audio and movie content generated over 50 years. One part of Shapiro’s emergence here is a partnership with alt-comedy podcast network Forever Dog, that will carry reboots of the National Lampoon Radio Hour that launched the likes of Bill Murray and Gilda Radner. They are also republishing online pages from the original National Lampoon magazine, and will reboot as a stage and TV show Lemmings, which launched Chevy Chase, Christopher Guest, John Belushi and others.

Shapiro will oversee all development,...

IFC is developing five comedy projects for series consideration, including one from exec producer Margaret Cho and another from Funny or Die.

The shows in the running at IFC are Almost Asian, which chronicles the life of a mixed-race millennial in Los Angeles; Annika Erotica, following a young Colorado pastor who harbors a secret passion for writing erotic novels under a pen name; Art Thieves, an adventure comedy following three misfit criminals who fancy themselves to be the Robin Hoods of the art world; Beth, about a happily agoraphobic man and his uneasy journey back to the outside world; and The Middle Passage, a satirical and politically provocative sketch comedy. Read details about the projects below.

The projects join two other previously announced series in development: How to Rig an Election and Ngo. All seven are vying to join the recently greenlighted Sherman’s Showcase and Year of the Rabbit on the schedule,...

A quintet of quirky comedies will be vying for a spot on IFC’s 2019 schedule.

The cable net has put five new series into development, including a full-length version of the web series Almost Asian and a comedy about a junior pastor who has a secret passion for writing erotica.

Read on for the full loglines of each project:

* Almost Asian: Based on the short-form YouTube series of the same name (pictured above), this dark comedy stars Katie Malia (The Mindy Project, Sleepy Hollow) as Katie, a perpetual outsider on a desperate journey to find her identity as both a...

IFC has put five comedy projects in development, bringing the number of potential shows in its pipeline to seven.

The five new series in development include Almost Asian, based on the web series from Katie Malia and executive produced by Margaret Cho; a show about a junior pastor whose self-published erotic novel becomes a best-seller; and a sketch show that takes on race and politics.

The five new shows join two other projects in development, How to Rig an Election and Ngo. The cable channel also recently ordered detective comedy Year of the Rabbit and sketch show Sherman's Showcase to series.

The new development ...

Through web series episodes, a half-Japanese, half-German actress is exploring her heritage. Katie Malia is the creator and star of Almost Asian, in which she shares various scenarios related to her mixed-race identity.

On the surface, Malia’s web series appears similar to many other projects helmed by aspiring actors in Los Angeles. Certain episodes do trend in that direction, but others embrace Malia’s Japanese identity by taking on the tone of a campy Far East TV program. It’s not just Malia herself who is multicultural; her web series itself lives somewhere between La and Tokyo.

“My intention with Almost Asian is to celebrate the nuanced mixed-ethnic identity and challenge our social conventions regarding race and culture through a heightened-comedic lens," said Malia in a press release.

The latest episode takes place at a karaoke bar. It features a guest appearance from former Saturday Night Live cast member Horatio Sanz and,...

If only university was all about driving humvees, wearing/watching bikinis and rocking big hair in the cafeteria, then life would be a whole lot simpler. However, events get complicated in director Michael Phillip Edwards' (Sides) C.L.A.S.S. Blood sprays, teachers and students collide, while killer ninjas hide behind fridge doors. The incorporation of so many conflicting elements makes classifying this film in genre difficult. Yet, writers here at 28Dla are very astute and C.L.A.S.S. is definitely not vibing comedy. So, step into the trailer for this feature below, as C.L.A.S.S. has just finished production, with distributors now being sought and choose your own genre for C.L.A.S.S.

The synopsis for C.L.A.S.S. is here:

"When a brilliant female law student Fiona Reid signs up for Professor Mark Sloan's criminology class, she quickly realizes she has signed on for more than what she bargained for. Fiona discovers there's more than theory...