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With Tim Robinson's hilarious sketch series "I Think You Should Leave" having cemented the former "Saturday Night Live" and "Detroiters" star's status as a full comedy legend and "Friendship" pairing him with Paul Rudd to further establish his talent, the comedian seems nothing short of undeniable. Still, despite friends of funny business everywhere chuckling to themselves whenever they remember "Brian's Hat," Robinson's professional life might not be entirely composed of well-deserved victories after all.

One of Robinson's less-known but still perfectly hilarious works is the Adult Swim cartoon "Teenage Euthanasia," which premiered in 2021 and got its sophomore season in 2023. However, fans of the show who have been waiting for news of season 3 will be disappointed to hear that the show seems to have died with barely a whimper.

While nothing has been etched in official stone, evidence indicates that "Teenage Euthanasia" has been canceled. Adult Swim hasn't actually...

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Black Mirror is a British sci-fi thriller drama anthology series created by Charlie Brooker. The episodes of Channel 4 and later Netflix series feature self-contained stories that revolve around a new piece of technology and explore how that technology affects the people around it. Black Mirror stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Cristin Milioti, Hayley Atwell, Jon Hamm, Michaela Coel, Anthony Mackie, Jesse Plemons, Toby Kebbell, Alex Lawther, Jodie Whittaker, and Hannah John-Kamen. So, if you loved the inventive stories, sci-fi elements, and compelling characters in Black Mirror, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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The Twilight Zone is a sci-fi fantasy horror drama anthology series created by Rod Serling. The CBS series’ episodes feature self-contained stories that revolve around seemingly ordinary people as they find themselves in extraordinary situations. The Twilight Zone stars Serling,...

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Made for Love is a sci-fi dark comedy-drama series created by Alissa Nutting, Dean Bakopoulos, Patrick Somerville, and Christina Lee. Based on Nutting‘s 2017 novel of the same name, the HBO Max series follows Hazel Green, a young woman who finally escapes her toxic marriage. Still, when she thinks that she is free, she discovers that her husband has implanted a chip in her brain that allows him to track her in real time, read her emotional data, and watch her live. Made for Love stars Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen, Dan Bakkedahl, Noma Dumezweni, Ray Romano, Augusto Aguilera, and Caleb Foote. So, if you loved the sci-fi elements, thrilling drama, and compelling characters in Made for Love, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Considering her comedy roots, audiences may have been surprised by Cristin Milioti's career-defining performance as serial killer Sofia Falcone in HBO's The Penguin. The Batman spin-off sees a huge pivot for Milioti, who was, until now, most well-known for her roles in a series of rom-coms from How I Met Your Mother to Palm Springs to, most recently, HBO Maxs Made for Love. Based on Alissa Nutting's novel, Made for Love is a blend of Black Mirror and Olivia Wildes Dont Worry Darling, a comedic and often disturbing look at the way modern love and divorce converge with rapidly evolving technology. Cristin Milioti leads the impressive cast, which includes Billy Magnusson and Olivier award-winner Noma Dumezweni, as she attempts to escape her suffocating marriage to a tech CEO determined to revolutionize true love.

Fans of Max's The Penguin are amazed by Colin Farrell's transformation into the titular villain, but more surprising to many is Cristin Milioti's performance as Sophia Falcone. Milioti plays the daughter of Gotham City's crime king, Carmine Falcone, with such intensity that it's eerie and fascinating to watch. Milioti proved years ago she's a powerhouse on screen in Made for Love on HBO Max. Starring alongside Billy Magnussen and Ray Ramono, Milioti played Hazel Green, a woman married to a wealthy tech genius who desperately wants to escape his controlling clutches.

Made for Love, adapted from a novel by Alissa Nutting, is a mix of science fiction and dark comedy that lasted two seasons. Canceled under unfortunate circumstances, Made for Love remains an under-appreciated show that highlighted Milioti's star power years ago.

Made For Love Is a Modern Look at How Technology and Relationships Collide

At the beginning of Made for Love,...

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Kevin Can F**k Himself is a brilliant dark comedy series starring Schitt’s Creek‘s Annie Murphy. The AMC series is created by Valerie Armstrong, and it tells the story of Allison McRoberts, who seems very happy on the outside as she looks like all the sitcom wives we have seen before in countless comedy shows but something else is going on inside. The series follows Allison as she tries to break out of her unhappy life. Alongside Murphy, the series also stars Marry Hollis Inboden, Eric Peterson, Alex Bonifer, Brian Howe, and Raymond Lee. So, if you loved the dark comedy, personal story, and compelling characters in Kevin Can F**k Himself here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Bad Sisters is an Irish dark comedy-drama series developed by Sharon Horgan,...

Exclusive: The Sundance Institute has named the participants and projects selected for the 2023 edition of its Episodic Lab, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Sundance, Utah from November 3–7. The list includes Daniela Bailes (The Letters), Elaine Hsieh Chou (Get Home Safe), Marissa Díaz (Cochinas), Sam Dunnewold (Guts), Laurie Hartung (Rabbit Hole), Farah Merani (The Painted Muse), Sylvia-Anne Parker (Blackbirds), and Hernando Cortes Watson (Horsepower).

Designed for early-career writers with an original series IP that has not yet been produced, the Lab affords participants the opportunity to workshop pilots under the guidance of established showrunners and EPs. Creative advisors for the 10th edition include Shal Francis (The Morning Show), Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights), Christina Lee (Search Party), Latoya Morgan (The Walking Dead), Erica Rivinoja (Clone High), Sanjay Shah (Everybody Still Hates Chris), Sarah Treem (The Affair), and Graham Yost (Slow Horses).

Over the course of the program, writers will...

There were more than a gaggle of memorable episodes in season two of Adult Swim’s hit animated comedy, Teenage Euthanasia. Ann Dowd flipped her Aunt Lydia character from The Handmaid's Tale to voice the sex-positive matriarch of Erica’s Erotic Emporium. And Kieran Culkin (Succession) voiced a memorable billionaire named Ref Mazos. All of it fed into the show’s outlandish premise.

Set in inland Florida in a “mildly apocalyptic near future," the series from creators Alissa Nutting and Alyson Levy revolves around the misadventures of the Fantasy family and their funeral home, Tender Endings. Lending their voices to the Fantasy family are the great Maria Bamford (Lady Dynamite), Bebe Neuwirth (Cheers), Jo Firestone (Joe Pera Talks With You), and Tim Robinson (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson). Season two stood out for many reasons, especially its guest stars.

“We were so lucky to have so many amazing guest stars,...

Teenage Euthanasia is a unique animated show that focuses on the stories of women, challenging the dominance of men's stories in the industry. The second season explores themes of unplanned parenthood, mother-daughter connections, death, and family dynamics. The creators were excited to delve deeper into the characters and their relationships, including exploring Annie's teen girl sexuality and the intergenerational views on womanhood.

Set in a mildly apocalyptic near-future, Teenage Euthanasia centers around the Fantasy family and their inland Florida funeral home, Tender Endings. As a teen mom, Trophy ran away from home, leaving her infant daughter Annie to be raised by her Baba and Uncle Pete. Fifteen years later, she is sent to the funeral home after she passes away. When a bolt of lightning strikes Baba's homemade embalming fluid and one of Annie's tears magically brings Trophy back from the dead, she finds herself a resurrected woman with a...

Freeform takes a bold step into adult animation with its new original series Praise Petey, created by former Saturday Night Live head writer Anna Drezen. The show follows wide-eyed girl-boss Petey St. Barts as she inherits the leadership of her late father's cult somewhere in the American South, ready to move the cult away from its more murderous and morally questionable traditions. Despite Petey's best efforts, her inexperience after living in the big city and some of the more practical elements of this strange society complicate her attempts to reform the cult.

In an exclusive interview with Cbr, Praise Petey creator Anna Drezen shared the origins of the animated series, named several influences that helped inform the show's development, and teased what fans can expect as Season 1 raises the stakes moving into its second half.

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Set in St. Louis during the height of prohibition, Lackadaisy focuses on the titular speakeasy and its employees as they struggle to keep their business afloat (and stay alive) amid conflicts with dangerous gangsters and deadly rivals. Created by Tracy J. Butler in 2006 as a webcomic, the Eisner-nominated Lackadaisy fuses, fuses a period crime-thriller with a charming and beautifully illustrated sense of style. Embracing an anamorphic design that recalls the work of Walt Disney and Don Bluth, the comic is a stunning piece -- and has only increased in notoriety thanks to an animated pilot that went online earlier in March 2023.

Directed by Fable Siegel (The Midnight Gospel), the pilot -- used to garner attention for crowdfunding aimed at funding a full season -- was a rousing success upon release. At the time of this writing, it's already earned over $1,000,000 from online backers, with a full season now in the works.

Cartoonist Nathan W. Pyle's beloved alien webcomic series about extraterrestrials commenting on the eccentricities of daily human life has been adapted into an animated series on Apple TV+. Titled Strange Planet, the new show pairs Pyle with veteran television and animation writer/producer Dan Harmon to bring Pyle's work into a fresh medium while retaining much of its original charm. Unfolding in an anthology-style series, Strange Planet will likely delight any fans of the webcomic though the joke may take some getting used to for the uninitiated.

Exploring everything from commercial airline service and musical festivals to soccer games and taking care of pets, Strange Planet follows a wide range of topics across its inaugural season. The extraterrestrials, referring to themselves as "beings," comment on the everyday absurdities of human life with their unique perspective, including vocational upgrades (promotions) and cocoa bars (chocolate). Of course, these beings aren't completely emotionless themselves,...

The ridiculously raunchy and wonderfully weird Adult Swim animated series Teenage Euthanasia returns for its second season this July, boasting double the episodes of the hilariously macabre. Undead trophy wife, Trophy (Maria Bamford), continues to embark on hijinks around her hometown of Fort Gator with her teenage daughter Annie (Jo Firestone), with the mother and daughter begrudgingly learning how to get along with each other. With everything from time travel to Florida keggers gone blazingly wrong, Teenage Euthanasia ups the ante for its second season.

In an interview with Cbr, Teenage Euthanasia creators Alyson Levy and Alissa Nutting shared the lessons they learned from production on Season 1 that informed Season 2, teased how Season 2 completely raises the stakes for its four main characters, and revealed major plot points to look forward to this season.

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I’m not gonna lie, being a TV fan is hard right now. Not only do we have to worry about the shows we love getting canceled before the story is complete, but now we also have to worry about shows being canceled at random stages of production, or worse getting erased from their streaming platforms entirely. HBO Max has been the worst at erasing its own shows from existence with around eighty total original titles taken off of the streamer last year as Warner Bros. Discovery plans to merge the service with Discovery+. But we can’t even call HBO Max’s great erasure a one-off moment, because now that Showtime and Paramount+ are merging into one streaming service, there are several Showtime originals that have been canceled with plans to erase them from the platform entirely.

We’ve lost some great shows over the last year, and it...

In the era of the Streaming Wars, the number of TV shows available to us is limitless. It can be hard to navigate through the masses of content and determine what shows to devote our time to. Luckily, the book-to-show pipeline has never been more reliable. We’ve rounded up ten of the best books that were turned into movies that you can add to your reading list – and then your streaming queue.

From dramas like Sally Rooney’s Normal People and Elena Ferrante’s My Beautiful Friend, to modern...

Exclusive: Tomorrow Studios has lined up its next project: It will adapt the novel I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness for TV.

The Claire Vaye Watkins tome was named Best Book of the Year by Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Kirkus and NPR. Emmy Award-winning director Stephanie Laing (Physical) will re-team with Tomorrow Studios and screenwriter/author Alissa Nutting (Made for Love) for the TV adaptation.

“We love working with Stephanie on Physical because of her incredible talent for showcasing complex stories of female empowerment in a way that resonates with a global audience. We’re excited to work with her and prolific writer Alissa to bring Claire’s powerful work to television, and we are proud to have a strong team of women spearheading this incredible project,” according to a joint statement from Tomorrow Studios CEO/Partner Marty Adelstein and President/Partner Becky Clements.

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Network: HBO Max

Episodes: 16 (half-hour)

Seasons: Two

TV show dates: April 1, 2021 -- May 19, 2022

Series status: Cancelled

Performers include: Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen, Dan Bakkedahl, Noma Dumezweni, Ray Romano, Augusto Aguilera, Caleb Foote, and Sarunas J. Jackson.

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A dark and absurd comedy series, the Made for Love TV show is based on the novel of the same name by Alissa Nutting.

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Hazel and Byron are really over. HBO Max has cancelled the Made for Love TV series so the characters won't be back for a third season.

A single-camera comedy series, the Made for Love TV show is based on the novel of the same name by Alissa Nutting. The show stars Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen, Dan Bakkedahl, Noma Dumezweni, Augusto Aguilera, Caleb Foote and Ray Romano. This cynically poignant story of love and divorce follows Hazel Green (Milioti), a thirty-something woman who's on the run after 10 years in a suffocating marriage to Byron Gogol (Magnussen), a controlling tech billionaire. She discovers that her husband has implanted a high-tech tracking device in her brain -- the Made for Love chip. This chip allows him to track her, watch her, and know her "emotional data" as she...

HBO Max is breaking up with Made for Love.

The streaming service has officially canceled the Cristin Milioti-fronted dark comedy after two seasons, according to Variety.

“We are tremendously grateful for the truly spectacular journey of these past two seasons, courtesy of Alissa Nutting, Christina Lee, Cristin [Milioti], Billy [Magnussen], Ray [Romano] and the entire Made for Love cast and creative team — especially Zelda the talking dolphin and everyone’s favorite synthetic love interest, Diane,” HBO Max said in a statement to Variety.

“Like a Gogol chip, the series will always be on our minds.”

Based on the novel by Alissa Nutting, Made for Love is a humorous story of modern love and divorce.

Made for Love Season 1 followed Hazel Green (Cristin Milioti), a thirty-something woman on the run after ten years in a suffocating marriage to tech billionaire Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen), as smart as he is insufferable.

After discovering that...

It is the end of the road for Made for Love. HBO Max has canceled the dark romantic comedy series after two seasons, Deadline has confirmed. Season 2 wrapped May 19 and will serve as the series finale.

“We are tremendously grateful for the truly spectacular journey of these past two seasons, courtesy of Alissa Nutting, Christina Lee, Cristin, Billy, Ray and the entire Made for Love cast and creative team – especially Zelda the talking dolphin and everyone’s favorite synthetic love interest, Diane,” reps for HBO Max said in a statement Friday. “Like a Gogol chip, the series will always be on our minds.”

Made For Love was HBO Max’s first original series.

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Based on the Alissa Nutting novel and executive produced by Christina Lee and Nutting for Paramount Television Studios, the series starred Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen and Ray Romano. It followed the tumultuous,...

Hazel’s new tenure at Gogol Inc. has officially been cut short: HBO Max has cancelled Made for Love after just two seasons.

“We are tremendously grateful for the truly spectacular journey of these past two seasons, courtesy of Alissa Nutting, Christina Lee, Cristin [Milioti], Billy [Magnussen], Ray [Romano] and the entire Made for Love cast and creative team — especially Zelda the talking dolphin and everyone’s favorite synthetic love interest, Diane,” HBO Max said in a statement to our sister site Variety. “Like a Gogol chip, the series will always be on our minds.”

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“Made for Love” has been canceled at HBO Max after two seasons, Variety has confirmed exclusively.

“We are tremendously grateful for the truly spectacular journey of these past two seasons, courtesy of Alissa Nutting, Christina Lee, Cristin, Billy, Ray and the entire ‘Made for Love’ cast and creative team – especially Zelda the talking dolphin and everyone’s favorite synthetic love interest, Diane,” representatives for HBO Max said in a statement Friday. “Like a Gogol chip, the series will always be on our minds.”

The cancellation of the Cristin Milioti-led Max original comes on the heels of one of the streamer’s other titles, Ridley Scott’s “Raised by Wolves,” getting the axe earlier this week amid ongoing shakeups at HBO Max’s new parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery.

Based on the novel by Alissa Nutting, “Made for Love” is described as “a poignantly humorous story of modern love and divorce.

HBO Max is bringing two of its most popular shows back in the coming weeks.

The streaming service has announced return dates for Hacks and Made for Love.

Made for Love is up first, with a two-episode premiere set for Thursday, April 28.

The series will then unspool two episodes each Thursday, with the finale set for May 19.

Based on the novel by Alissa Nutting, Made for Love is a humorous story of modern love and divorce.

Made for Love Season 1 followed Hazel Green (Cristin Milioti), a thirty-something woman on the run after ten years in a suffocating marriage to tech billionaire Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen), as smart as he is insufferable.

After discovering that her husband implanted a monitoring device – the Made for Love chip – in her brain, allowing him to track her, watch her and know her "emotional data," Hazel fled to her desert hometown to take refuge with...

The first season of HBO Max’s Made For Love is an intense story about a toxic relationship told through the lens of dark sci-fi humor. Created by Christina Lee and Alissa Nutting, based on the latter’s book of the same name, the show premiered last April. The streamer has now released the trailer for season two, which…...

It was nearly a year ago when the HBO Max original sci-fi dark comedy "Made For Love" first arrived on our screens, and now, the toxic Gogol couple have returned for even more high-tech hijinks. While the comparisons to "Black Mirror," "The Invisible Man," and the similarly Cristin Milioti starring "Palm Springs" were inevitable, the series based on Alissa Nutting's 2017 novel of the same name has managed to stand on its own as a horrifically unique series that we can't get enough of.

Season 1 focused on Milioti's Hazel, a 30-something woman married to a billionaire tech mogul/real life supervillain named Byron...

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Netflix is celebrating Earth Month with a brand new collection on its platform.

Titled “One World, Infinite Wonder,” the new collection features over 170 titles that focus on the environment or climate change, from stand-up sets, nature documentaries and television dramas. The collection also features artwork from California-based illustrator Leonardo Santamaria.

The launch of the collection coincides with the release of “Our Great National Parks,” a new five-part documentary series executive produced and narrated by former U.S. president Barack Obama. The series explores national parks and wildlife across many different countries and continents, from Kenya’s Tsavo National Park to Gunung Leuser National Park in Indonesia. Other documentaries in the collection include “Our Planet,” “Animal” and “David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet.”

Other prominent titles featured in the collection include the Oscar-nominated comedy “Don’t Look Up,” which uses a meteor striking planet earth as a metaphor for climate change.

Exclusive: Filming is slated to resume tomorrow on the second season of HBO Max’s dark romantic comedy Made for Love, from Paramount TV Studios, I have learned.

I hear production was paused last week after positive Covid test results, including in the central Zone A, which includes the cast and those in direct interaction with them. The results were produced through the show’s rigorous testing protocols.

Based on the Alissa Nutting novel and executive produced by Christina Lee and Nutting, Made for Love stars Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen, Ray Romano, Dan Bakkedahl, Noma Dumezweni, Augusto Aguilera and Caleb Foote.

The series premiered in April 2021 and was renewed for a second season in June.

Exclusive: HBO Max’s Made For Love is upping and adding to its cast.

Sarunas J. Jackson, a guest star on the first season of the Cristin Milioti and Billy Magnussen dramedy, has been promoted to series regular for Season 2, and the show has added Chris Diamantopoulos and Angela Lin as recurring with Paula Abdul joining as a guest star.

Jackson, best known for his role on HBO’s Insecure, plays Jay, a co-worker of Milioti’s Hazel from the Twin Sands bowling alley, with surprising new developments in Season 2.

Diamantopoulos, best known for his role in Silicon Valley and who most recently is starring in Netflix’s Red Notice and True Story, plays Hank Walsh, a debonair, zealous FBI agent tasked with uncovering the hidden truths of The Hub.

Lin, who stars in Apple’s Little America and had a guest -tar role on Grey’s Anatomy, is playing Dr.

The original dark-comedy series for HBO Max, "Made For Love," is like taking an episode of "Black Mirror," splicing it with 2020's "The Invisible Man" and running it through a comedy filter. Based on Alissa Nutting's 2017 novel of the same name, "Made For Love" is about a woman named Hazel (Cristin Milioti) who escapes from an awful 10-year-long marriage to a tech billionaire named Byron (Billy Magnussen) and the virtual reality complex where they lived for a decade without ever leaving. After she finally gets out, she discovers that her husband had implanted a state-of-the-art tracking device into her brain. Now, with the assistance...

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“Teenage Euthanasia,” Adult Swim’s newest coming-of-all-ages comedy series about all things death, family, and accidental resurrection in Florida, premieres Sunday, September 19 at midnight Et/Pt. It features some pretty beloved voice talent, including comedian Maria Bamford, and “I Think You Should Leave” co-creator and star Tim Robinson. Watch the first trailer for the show below.

Here’s the synopsis:

Set in near-future inland Florida, Teenage Euthanasia centers around the owners of Tender Endings funeral home, the Fantasy Family: Grandma Baba, her adult children Uncle Pete and Trophy, and Trophy’s teenage daughter, Euthanasia (“Annie”), a name accidentally given to her during the time of Trophy’s own unbearable suffering. Back when Trophy was a teen herself; she ran away from home after giving birth to Annie, leaving her newborn to be raised by Baba and Uncle Pete.

Now, 15 years later, Trophy returns to Tender Endings…as a corpse, for burial.

Prett-ay… prett-ay… prett-ay good news: “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Season 11 will premiere in October, HBO said Monday.

Larry David is back with co-stars Susie Essman, Jeff Garlin, Cheryl Hines, Richard Lewis, J.B. Smoove and Ted Danson to offer his opinions about the pandemic and wrap himself in the show’s signature misfortunes.

Season 10 ended with a fire taking down Larry’s spite store, Latte Larry’s — created in order to put the neighboring Mocha Joe’s out of business.

“Curb Your Enthusiasm” is created by David, who executive produces with Jeff Garlin, Schaffer and Gavin Polone. Laura Streicher co-executive produces, while Jon Hayman and Steve Leff serve as consulting producers.

The network also announced that “Succession” and “Insecure” will also return in October.

You're allowed to be happy, but not in front of me. #CurbYourEnthusiasm is back this October. pic.twitter.com/kBCjMedLOZ

— HBO (@HBO) August 23, 2021

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Exclusive: Aloft Strategic Communications has hired Rebecca Taylor as a partner. The boutique firm was founded by veteran publicist Michael Donkis in April.

Taylor was most recently VP, Talent at Jonesworks, and before that, a VP at Rogers & Cowan Pmk, working with Robert Downey Jr., Patty Jenkins and Christopher McQuarrie, among others. The move is a reunion of sorts for Taylor and Donkis, as both worked closely together at Prime, a boutique firm run by Donkis and Joy Fehily, which was absorbed by Pmk-bnc in 2016.

“Rebecca is one of the smartest, hardest working, ethical and caring publicists I’ve worked alongside,” Donkis tells Deadline. “She has a sterling reputation and is a perfect fit for Aloft. While I’ve enjoyed calling her ‘friend’ for some time, I’m very excited to now call her ‘partner’ as well.”

Taylor’s impressive client roster of showrunners, filmmakers, talent and authors includes Jac Schaeffer,...

Exclusive: Caleb Foote, who previously was a recurring guest star on the Max Original series Made for Love, will be returning for season 2 as a series regular.

Foote plays Bennett Hobbes, the always cheerful executive assistant and confidante of tech mogul billionaire Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen), who implants a ‘Made for Love’ monitoring chip in his wife Hazel Green’s (Cristin Milioti) brain.

Based on the novel by Alissa Nutting, Made for Love is a cynically poignant story of love and divorce. Season one followed Hazel who is on the run after ten years in a suffocating marriage to Byron Gogol. After discovering that her husband implanted the Made for Love chip, Hazel flees to her desert hometown to take refuge with her aging widower father Herbert (Ray Romano) and his synthetic partner, Diane. In addition to Foote, Milioti, Magnussen and Romano, season one of Made for Love starred Dan Bakkedahl,...

This summer’s San Diego Comic-Con once again invites fans to sit on their couches and enjoy the pop culture extravaganza from the safety of their homes. There is one difference from last year’s virtual event, however: It will be an abbreviated one, taking place over three days, from Friday, July 23 through Sunday, July 25 — but there are still a bevy of TV show panels on the lineup, which will be streaming for free via YouTube.

Note: Yes, there will again be a DC Fandome virtual event this year (on Oct. 16), where in 2020 shows such as The Flash, Titans, Batwoman...

The first season of HBO Max’s genre-defying series “Made for Love” premiered on April 1, kicking off the eight-episode dystopian comedy about the increasing intrusiveness of technology on the most intimate aspects of our personal lives. Based on the novel of the same name by Alissa Nutting, “Made for Love” chronicles the fallout of a tech mogul Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen) secretly implanting a chip in his wife Hazel’s (Cristin Milioti) brain. Scroll down to watch our four exclusive interviews with top Emmy contenders from the series.

Milioti and Magnussen lead “Made for Love” as the ill-fated married couple. The pair have collaborated together on numerous projects over the past 10 years, including the “Black Mirror” episode “USS Callister,” which was nominated for seven Emmy Awards, winning four including Best TV Movie. Milioti and Magnussen are both Tony nominees – Milioti for her leading role in musical “Once,” and Magnussen for...

Can Hazel truly escape her husband in the first season of the Made for Love TV show on HBO Max? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Made for Love is cancelled or renewed for season two. HBO Max and other streaming platforms, however, collect their own data. If you've been watching this TV series, we'd love to know how you feel about the first season episodes of Made for Love here. Status Update Below.

An HBO Max dark and absurd comedy series, the Made for Love TV show is based on the novel of the same name by Alissa Nutting. The show stars Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen, Dan Bakkedahl, Noma Dumezweni, Augusto Aguilera, Caleb Foote and Ray Romano. This cynically poignant story of love and divorce follows Hazel Green...

Hazel's story will continue. HBO Max has renewed the Made for Love TV show for a second season. The first season of eight episodes finished being released on April 15th and a release date for season two will be announced in the future.

A dark and absurd comedy series, the Made for Love TV show is based on the novel of the same name by Alissa Nutting. The show stars Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen, Dan Bakkedahl, Noma Dumezweni, Augusto Aguilera, Caleb Foote and Ray Romano. This cynically poignant story of love and divorce follows Hazel Green (Milioti), a thirty-something woman who's on the run after 10 years in a suffocating marriage to Byron Gogol (Magnussen), a controlling tech billionaire. She discovers that her husband has implanted a high-tech tracking device in her brain -- the Made for Love chip.

HBO Max is ordering another twisted take on love.

The streamer has renewed the Max Original series Made For Love for a second season.

The critically acclaimed, darkly absurd comedy ranks among HBO Max’s top original half-hours since launch.

Based on the novel by Alissa Nutting, Made for Love is a cynically poignant story of love and divorce following Hazel Green (Cristin Milioti), a thirty-something woman on the run after ten years in a suffocating marriage to Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen), a controlling tech billionaire.

Soon she discovers that her husband has implanted a monitoring device – the Made for Love chip – in her brain, allowing him to track her, watch her, and know her "emotional data" as she tries to regain her independence.

Through the chip, Byron's able to watch Hazel's every move as she flees to her desert hometown to take refuge with her aging widower father Herbert...

What’s to come of Hazel and Herbert’s newfound Hub life? We will soon find out: HBO Max has renewed Made for Love for a second season, TVLine has learned.

Christina Lee, who served as showrunner for Season 1, will be joined in that role for Season 2 by Alissa Nutting, who wrote the novel on which Made for Love is based.

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HBO Max has renewed its Cristin Milioti-led comedy “Made for Love” for Season 2, the streaming service announced Monday.

The dark comedy, which debuted in April, tells the story of a woman on the run who discovers that her husband, a controlling tech billionaire, has implanted a monitoring device – the Made for Love chip – in her brain.

Alissa Nutting, the author of the source novel, served as executive producer on the first season and has been upped to co-showrunner on Season 2. She will work alongside Season 1 boss Christina Lee.

“Made For Love is funny, dark, and entirely unique,” said Suzanna Makkos, EVP, Original Comedy and Adult Animation, HBO Max. “We are thrilled to be reuniting with this dream team of talented producers, incredible cast, and CGI dolphins to tell the next chapter of this exciting story.”

“We’re thrilled we get the chance to work with our incredible cast and crew again.

HBO Max is giving a second season to its dark romantic comedy Made for Love, starring Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen and Ray Romano.

Based on the Alissa Nutting novel and executive produced by Christina Lee and Nutting for Paramount Television Studios, the series follows the tumultuous, suffocating marriage between Hazel Green (Milioti) and her tech billionaire husband Byron Gogol (Magnussen), who has implanted the Made for Love chip, a monitoring device, in her brain. With it, Byron is able to track Havel’s every move and collect her “emotional data” as she tries to regain her independence. Through the chip, he watches her flee to her desert hometown to take refuge with her aging widower father, Herbert (Ray Romano), who lives with his synthetic partner, Diane.

Made for Love also stars Dan Bakkedahl, Noma Dumezweni, Augusto Aguilera and Caleb Foote.

Season 1 was executive produced by Lee, Nutting, Patrick Somerville, Dean Bakopoulos,...

“Made for Love,” the original HBO Max dark comedy starring Cristin Milioti and based on the novel by Alissa Nutting, is getting a Season 2.

“’Made for Love’ is funny, dark, and entirely unique,” said Suzanna Makkos, exec VP of original comedy and adult animation at HBO Max. “We are thrilled to be reuniting with this dream team of talented producers, incredible cast, and CGI dolphins to tell the next chapter of this exciting story.”

The story centers on Milioti’s Hazel Green, a 30-something who is on the run after a decade-long, suffocating marriage to a tech billionaire played by Billy Magnussen, who has implanted a chip into her brain to track her “emotional data.” Hazel flees to her hometown, holing up at her childhood home where Ray Romano, who plays her aging widower father, has begun to rely on synthetic sex doll “Diane” for companionship. Dan Bakkedahl, Noma Dumezweni,...

With his latest film, “False Positive,” director John Lee takes the always thrilling psychological horror genre, and he combines it with his signature dark comedy to construct a commentary on pregnancy and a woman’s right to her own bodily autonomy. Written by Lee, Ilana Glazer, and Alissa Nutting, “False Positive” stars Glazer as Lucy, who—along with her husband Adrian (Justin Theroux)—has been trying and failing to get pregnant.

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In the seventh episode of the HBO Max sci-fi comedy, Hazel (Cristin Milioti) is telling her dad’s sex doll, Diane, about an experience she had with her husband, tech mogul Byron (Billy Magnussen). As we see in a flashback, she asked Byron to take her outside their simulation cube (aka the Hub), in which she’d been trapped for years, to a Warpaint concert. But she soon discovers he’s instead chosen to bring Warpaint to them. Through this story, Hazel realizes that she and Diane aren’t so different after all.

Showrunner Christina Lee worked with Alissa Nutting ...

In the seventh episode of the HBO Max sci-fi comedy, Hazel (Cristin Milioti) is telling her dad’s sex doll, Diane, about an experience she had with her husband, tech mogul Byron (Billy Magnussen). As we see in a flashback, she asked Byron to take her outside their simulation cube (aka the Hub), in which she’d been trapped for years, to a Warpaint concert. But she soon discovers he’s instead chosen to bring Warpaint to them. Through this story, Hazel realizes that she and Diane aren’t so different after all.

Showrunner Christina Lee worked with Alissa Nutting ...

In their first public appearance since WarnerMedia merged the two development divisions this past April, execs from HBO Max and Adult Swim previewed their upcoming slates, releasing new footage from adult-skewing offerings “10-Year-Old-Tom” and “Smiling Friends,” while talking up several more.

Created by Michael Cusack (“Yolo: Crystal Fantasy”) and Zack Hadel (of the popular YouTube channel “psychicpebbles”), “Smiling Friends” picks up where the viral 2020 short left off, following the lives of two hapless cheer merchants sent to make their clients smile. Mixing 2D, primitive character designs with candy colors and the winking edge of an online forum, the series is due out later this year.

“[Though they’re both well known independently,] combined, Hadel and Cusack are doing something really special,” said Walter Newman, senior VP comedy development at Adult Swim. “From the character designs to the voice work, it represents a lot of what we’re trying to accomplish here.”

Adult Swim is also ready to...

It’s movie math: Take one pregnant woman, add a bunch of shady people, multiply by the natural anxiety that comes with bringing new life into the world, and voila, you’ve got a “Rosemary’s Baby” riff! But while John Lee’s “False Positive” may have seemed — at least initially, thanks to some well-made marketing materials — like some sort of millennial version of the classic horror effort, it doesn’t work on its own merits, let alone as a take on the 1968 feature. While the inevitable comparisons don’t help matters — and really, films about women who are pregnant and scared don’t need to automatically be compared to Roman Polanski’s film, certainly not anymore — its own faults are obvious even without the snappy parallels.

Trapped in some bizarre movie genre hinterland, wholly resistant to veering too far in any direction,

Ambition and ideas aren’t in short supply in the film,...

Visual effects are often synonymous with fantasy series and science-fiction dramas, and it’s not very often a science-fiction comedy presents itself, so VFX supervisor Peter Crosman was quite chuffed to be offered the opportunity to create the digital world-building of HBO Max’s strangely timely “Made for Love.” Says Crosman: “I’d just come back from doing HBO’s “The Righteous Gemstones,” which is also a quirky show, so I have quite a bit of quirky dark humor in my background which I’m delighted to say.”

The series, based on a book also written by its showrunner Alissa Nutting that lifts some elements indirectly through her own experiences, depicts the aftermath of the marriage of Byron and Hazel Gogol (Billy Magnussen and Cristin Milioti), a tech genius and his wife, seen beatifically in promos and press blitzes, but harboring a dark secret: she has been microchipped for tracking...

“When I first read it, I became very obsessed with it and chased it down relentlessly,” Cristin Milioti shares about the role of Hazel on HBO Max’s “Made for Love.” The series opens with Hazel discovering that her tech mogul husband Byron (Billy Magnussen) has secretly implanted a chip in her brain and fleeing their virtual reality compound to reunite with her estranged father (Ray Romano). “I just felt so immediately connected to her just even in that first episode,” she says, because of “the performative elements of her personality.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.

The series balances its sci-fi premise with family drama and dark, absurdist comedy. Milioti says the cast and crew “talked a lot about tone on this show.” Ultimately, she found that “there’s humor in how these characters handle pain.” She also talks about looking to the novel of the same name by...

“The book was so surprising,” showrunner Christina Lee says of Alissa Nutting’s novel “Made for Love,” which inspired the HBO Max series of the same name. Lee and Nutting are both executive producers and writers on the freshman sci-fi comedy series. Nutting “really wanted this to be a companion piece to her book as opposed to a straight adaptation,” Lee shares, but as showrunner, “I wanted to make sure that we maintained that tone that she had clearly in the book.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.

Nutting reveals that her 2017 novel was born out of her desire to get a divorce from her husband while pregnant. “I didn’t know how I would begin a new life with him watching me stumble forward through mutual friends and social media, so that was really the seed of it,” she shares. In the series, that idea translates into the fictional...