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Here’s a trivia question for everyone: What’s the connection between Star Trek: The Original Series and the movies The Goonies, Throw Momma from the Train, and Scrooged? The answer is… Logan Ramsey, the late, great character actor whose career spanned from 1948 to 1999 and who would have turned 104 on March 21, 2025.

Star Trek fans will recall that Ramsey low-key chewed the scenery as Proconsul Claudius Marcus in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Bread and Circuses.” He’s the character who gave his slave, Drusilla (Lois Jewell), to Captain Kirk (William Shatner), so that Kirk could enjoy “some last hours as a man” before his execution. Sadly, Ramsey died of a heart attack at the age of 79 in 2000.

In addition to Star Trek, he counted among his many theater, movie, and television credits The Devil’s Disciple and The Great Indoors, both on stage; the films Head, Walking Tall, Any Which Way You Can,...

“Matlock” is not exactly the hottest piece of IP of 2024. The original series premiered in 1986 and starred Andy Griffith as an older widowed criminal defense lawyer who caught people off guard with his down-home country vibes before, destroying them on the stand and charging a boatload of money.

In that sense, the new “Matlock” — from “Jane the Virgin” creator Jennie Snyder Urman — is very much a classic gender-swapped reboot of old “Matlock.” Kathy Bates plays a 75 year-old widow named Madeline “Matty” Matlock who returns to the world of law after decades away. She has to get used to how things have changed since she was last a practicing lawyer, and an entire law firm has to get used to her quirky old lady ways, which hide a sharp and unexpectedly brilliant mind.

In another sense, this new “Matlock” is not a reboot at all. The original “Matlock” exists as a...

The cast and crew are currently hard at work shooting the highly anticipated Yellowjackets season 3, and fans can't wait to see what the new season will be about. The second season ended on a shocking cliffhanger, with the survivors in the past timeline losing their shelter in a fire. Then, when it came to the present timeline, a fan-favorite character met a tragic demise. It'll be interesting to see how the story continues in the third season and what new characters will be introduced.

In fact, we've just learned of a new cast addition for Yellowjackets season 3. Well-known actor and comedian Joel McHale has reportedly joined the Yellowjackets cast for its third season. He's best known for previously hosting the comedy TV series The Soup. You might also recognize him from his previous roles in the TV shows Community, The Great Indoors and Stargirl. He also starred in movies such as Spider-Man 2,...

The Great Indoors, starring Joel McHale, faced cancellation for depicting millennials as easily offended. Critics panned the sitcom's premise, leading to low ratings and a one-season run before cancellation. Millennials' sensitivity towards the series ironically contributed to its lack of renewal for a second season.

One CBS sitcom series focused on millennial culture faced cancelation for the most ironic reason. The network aired The Great Indoors premiere in October 2016, and by 2017, the show was on the chopping block. The comedy series initially had a time slot leading into Thursday night's The Big Bang Theory, but the headliner didn't live up to its position in the 2016-2017 CBS lineup. As such, the show became another sitcom canceled after one season. Ultimately, the cancelation came down to the show's premise, which, ironically but perhaps not unintentionally, turned off some of its viewers.

The series starred Joel McHale as Jack Gordon, an adventure...

Television is an unforgiving business. Most shows merely end up as promising pitches, as the process of getting a pilot on the air is painstaking. Network television, while viewed as a primitive medium, is more cutthroat than any media outlet, as a show is only as good as its last season's ratings. Low viewership will squash any show's dreams. These are the kind of harsh realities of life that Joel McHale's character would impart to the so-called coddled millennials that he worked with in the short-lived sitcom, The Great Indoors. The CBS show experienced surprising success during the onset stages of the first season in 2016. During the second half of the season, The Great Indoors' ratings plummeted, and the show was cancelled upon the season's conclusion in 2017. Some would claim the show was not so much cancelled, but rather, a victim of "cancel culture," due to offending millennials, but in reality,...

Alex Edelman’s go-to order at Barney Greengrass is whitefish on an everything bagel with a side of scrambled eggs. The Upper West Side institution isn’t exactly his local haunt — he lives out of a blue Samsonite bag these days — but this New York deli is a magnet for the Boston-born comic. “It’s where my friends eat and argue,” he explains. “It’s where ideas start to take root. Oh, and since the show did well, I can always get a table.”

That show, Just for Us, is the Jewish writer’s celebrated narrative about the infamous night he attended a meeting of white nationalists in a Queens apartment. An extended downtown run led to stints on Broadway and around the world. Its recent return to L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum (March 25 to 31) and an HBO special (April 6) are his grand finale, a complicated one for the 35-year-old.

Several guest stars have joined the upcoming season of Joel McHale's new Fox sitcom Animal Control. The upcoming guest cast includes Sarah Chalke, Krystal Smith, and Ken Jeong. Jeong's appearance will mark a reunion for the cult sitcom Community, on which he starred with McHale.

A Community reunion will be coming to television soon. The beloved cult sitcom originally ran for six seasons between 2009 and 2015, starting on Fox before moving to Yahoo! Screen for its final season. It followed a study group at Greendale Community College made up of an unlikely assortment of people played by an ensemble cast that included Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Donald Glover, and Chevy Chase.

Per Deadline, several new guest stars have been set for the upcoming season of Animal Control. The popular new Fox sitcom, which stars Joel McHale, has added guest stars Sarah Chalke,...

While Joel McHale is a very busy performer, he's had mixed success when it comes to sitcoms. He's perhaps best known for his role as Jeff in the Community comedy series, a show that ran for six seasons and is beloved by many fans today. However, his follow-up sitcom, The Great Indoors, was cancelled after one season. How will his newest show, Animal Control, perform in the ratings for Fox? Will it be cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned. *Status Update Below.

A single-camera workplace comedy series, the Animal Control TV show stars McHale, Michael Rowland, Vella Lovell, Ravi Patel, Grace Palmer, Gerry Dee, Kelli Ogmundson, and Alvina August. In the story, Frank Shaw (McHale) is an opinionated, eccentric Animal Control officer. A former cop, Frank tried to expose corruption in his department, but his efforts got him fired, which may explain why he’s so...

Obie Award-winning writer and performer Alex Edelman will bring his solo show Just For Us to Broadway this summer following critically acclaimed engagements Off Broadway and in London, Edinburgh, Boston and other cities.

The Broadway limited engagement – Edelman’s first – will begin previews at the Hudson Theatre on Thursday, June 22, with an opening night set for Monday, June 26. The show will run through Saturday, August 19.

The Broadway run was announced today by producers Jenny Gersten, Rachel Sussman, and Seaview, with Mike Birbiglia. Just For Us will be directed by Adam Brace. The show was originally produced Off Broadway by Birbiglia in association with Mike Lavoie, Carlee Briglia and Joseph Birbiglia.

The show’s synopsis: “In the wake of a string of anti-Semitic rhetoric pointed in his direction online, standup comic Edelman decides to go straight to the source; specifically,...

Community was created by Dan Harmon, one of Rick & Morty's writers, and features a star-studded cast. The comedy show defies the traditional sitcom structure by crossing the boundaries of its limited set in an absurd fashion, often turning the campus of a community college into an actual battlefield or even the site of a zombie outbreak. The show revolves around Jeff Winger and the study group he organized to hit on the girl he likes. Despite the differences between each member of the group, they develop an unusual friendship.

Community is a beloved show by many but went through plenty of obstacles to reach its "six seasons and a movie" goal, prophesied by Abed, one of the main characters. The show was canceled in season 5 by NBC after two main characters left the show and other core cast members' contracts were about to expire, but Community was saved...

Exclusive: Christine Ko, who starred in Alan Yang’s Tigertail and currently plays Emma opposite Dave Burd on his FX comedy series Dave, has signed with WME to be represented in all areas.

The news comes after Ko starred in Yang’s directorial debut feature film Tigertail, which bowed on Netflix last year. In July, she signed on to co-star in Nicholas Ma’s indie drama Mabel alongside Judy Greer. Other film credits include Tyler Savage’s Stalker and Stephanie Turner’s Justine.

On the TV side, Ko’s credits include Netflix’s Master of None, Disney+’s Just Beyond, Amazon’s Upload and a season-long arc on CBS’ Hawaii Five-0. She also was a series regular on Joel McHale’s CBS’ sitcom The Great Indoors.

She continues to be repped by Circle of Confusion and Hansen Jacobson.

LisaGay Hamilton (To Kill A Mockingbird), Michaela Watkins (Werewolves Within), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (NOS4A2), Kevin Sussman (The Big Bang Theory), Sam Straley (Hala) and Shaun J. Brown are set for recurring roles opposite Amanda Seyfried in The Dropout, Hulu’s limited series about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. The series hails from Liz Meriwether, Searchlight Television and Disney Television Studios’ 20th Television.

Created and executive produced by Meriwether, who also serves as showrunner, The Dropout is based on the ABC News/ABC Radio podcast. Holmes (Seyfried), the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos, was lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation. Once worth billions of dollars, the myth crumbled when it was revealed that none of the tech actually worked, putting thousands of people’s health in grave danger. Money. Romance. Tragedy. Deception. The story of Holmes and Theranos is...

Exclusive: Christine Ko (Dave) has joined the cast of Nicholas Ma’s Mabel.

She’ll appear in the indie, alongside Judy Greer (Kidding).

Mabel centers on Callie, whose only friends are the plants and trees that surround her home. When her dad’s job moves the family to a sterile subdivision, she is utterly isolated—except for her best friend, a potted plant named Mabel. To Callie, Mabel is a peer, a fellow being, maybe overlooked or unseen, but still very much alive.

In the feature, Ko will portray Callie’s youthful mother, Angela. A cool mom with a downtown vibe, Angela is proud of her unique and inquisitive kid; if it’s important to Callie, then it’s important to her. She wants to help her daughter become a well-rounded person, but must face the fact that she can only help so much.

Greer is playing a character known as Mrs.

Exclusive: The Julia Hart-directed Disney feature sequel to Stargirl continues to expand its cast with comedian Al Madrigal, Sarayu Blue, Chris Williams and Nija Okoro joining.

Stargirl 2 follows Grace VanderWaal’s title protagonist as she journeys out of Mica into a bigger world of music, dreams and possibility. The script is based on the original character from Jerry Spinelli’s bestselling book. VanderWaal will write and perform new original music for the sequel. Hart co-wrote with her husband Jordan Horowitz.

The four new actors join a cast that includes Uma Thurman, Judy Greer (Stargirl’s mom), Judd Hirsch (Stargirl’s neighbor Mr. Mitchell), Elijah Richardson (Stargirl’s beau Evan) and Tyrel Jackson Williams.

Madrigal will play Iggy, the Mc at a local music club. Blue will play Alex, an up-and-coming film producer. Williams and Okoro will play George and Daphne,...

It was a huge day for Paramount+, the new and revamped CBS All Access, which hit up the Television Critics Association with a wealth of big announcements.

We got series orders, series moving from other cable networks to call the streamer home, casting details, and so much more.

What is very clear about the announcements is that Paramount+ is going to be delving deeper into proven franchises with the aim of finding new hits with built-in audiences.

Disney+ has found much success with it, and we guess we should probably say the same about Discovery+, which has somehow managed to find even more success with the 90 Day Fiance franchise.

The new series pickups are Love Story, Fatal Attraction, Parallax View, Italian Job, and Flashdance.

The Hollywood Reporter first broke the exciting news in an interview with Paramount Television Studios President Nicole Clemens.

These pickups join the fellow TV series based on big movies,...

It’s officially official: Paramount+ is exhuming Frasier from the TV graveyard, ordering a revival of the Emmy-winning sitcom. And while Kelsey Grammer is confirmed to reprise his titular role in the sequel series, sources tell TVLine there are no deals in place yet for his co-stars David Hyde Pierce (Niles) Jane Leeves (Daphne) and Peri Gilpin (Roz) to return.

“Having spent over 20 years of my creative life on the Paramount lot, both producing shows and performing in several, I’d like to congratulate Paramount+ on its entry into the streaming world,” said Grammer in a statement. “I gleefully anticipate...

Someone on A Million Little Things has a little tough love coming their way, courtesy of the Artist Formerly Known as Christopher Pelant.

Andrew Leeds will appear in Season 3 of ABC’s ensemble drama, TVLine has learned exclusively. His episode will air Thursday, Dec. 17, at 10/9c.

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We hear that Leeds will play Peter, a highly skilled music teacher who works with young artists.

Five top TV showrunners will reveal the secrets behind their programs when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with key 2021 guild and Emmy contenders this month. Each person will participate in two video discussions to be published on Tuesday, December 8, at 5:00 p.m. Pt; 8:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our senior editor Marcus Dixon and a group chat with Marcus and all of the producers together.

RSVP today to this specific event by clicking here to book your reservation. Or click here to RSVP for our entire ongoing panel series. We’ll send you a reminder a few minutes before the start of the show.

This “Meet the Experts” panel welcomes the following 2021 guild and Emmy contenders:

“The Boys” (Amazon Prime): Eric Kripke

Kripke’s career has included such projects as “Supernatural,” “Timeless,” “The House with a Clock in Its Walls...

Exclusive: Range Media Partners has locked 17 more clients for the new management/production company. This comes as its lineup of ground floor partners has changed as Lucinda Moorhead, who left UTA to join Range, has decided she will instead stay with the agency and not join the upstart venture.

On the heels of its launch earlier this month, the new Range clients range from talent to filmmakers and TV writer/producers. The company has also confirmed the clients Deadline first reported would be joining the new company.

On the talent side, Range Media Partners has signed Alessandro Nivola, Alyssa Milano, Andrew Lincoln, Eric Singer, Shea Whigham, and Vincent Cassell. Also coming are filmmakers Baltasar Kormakur, Gareth Edwards; The Raid: Redemption director Gareth Evans (who continues to be repped by Management 360); Jc Chandor; Patrick Hughes (The Hitman’s Bodyguard); Ric Roman Waugh; and Martin Zandvliet.

On the TV writer/producer side, the new clients are Jackie Clarke; Gracie Glassmeyer; Rene Gube; and Rosa Handelman.

They join an original influx of clients that includes Naomi Ackie, Michael Bay, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Jessie Buckley, Jerrod Carmichael, Emilia Clarke, Bradley Cooper, Johnny Depp, Taron Egerton, Michael Fassbender, Luca Guadagnino, Tom Hardy, Stephan James, Anna Kendrick, Taylor Kitsch, Keira Knightley, Danny McBride/Rough House Pictures, Martin McDonagh, Michael Shannon and Ramy Youssef.

We hear that Moorhead’s deal with Range did not close and that UTA made her a strong offer to stay at the agency.

The exit of Moorhead means that the ground floor partners at Range Media Partners are Dave Bugliari, Mackenzie Condon Roussos, Rich Cook, Michael Cooper, Susie Fox, Matt Graham, Sandra Kang, Rachel Kropa, Chelsea McKinnies, Peter Micelli, Mick Sullivan, Byron Wetzel, and Jack Whigham.

Exclusive: Former WME Partner and literary agent Melissa Myers has been named President and Partner of a new venture between Kinetic Content founder and CEO Chris Coelen, and Red Arrow Studios, the production division of European media company ProSiebenSat.1.

This marks an expansion into scripted for Red Arrow Studios company Kinetic, a reality powerhouse behind such series as relationship mega hits Love Is Blind for Netflix and Married At First Sight for Lifetime, both created and executive produced by Coelen.

The venture is set to focus on premium high-end English-language scripted TV series with both domestic and global appeal.

English-speaking scripted content has been important to Red Arrow’s production and distribution business, as well as German TV networks like those owned by ProSieben. Germany traditionally has been one of the top markets for U.S. scripted series. The venture also will tap into Red Arrow’s resources and Coelen and Myers’ relationships internationally.

Exclusive: CBS has put in development Hr, a multi-camera comedy from The Great Indoors creator Mike Gibbons and Wendi Trilling’s TrillTV; and Next To You, a hybrid comedy from writer Ben Joseph. Both projects hail from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios.

Written by Gibbons, Hr is about a group of employees in a small, quirky Human Resources department who are forced into the big leagues after a corporate takeover.

Gibbons executive produces with Kapital’s Kaplan and Dana Honor and TrillTV’s Wendi Trilling.

Penned by Joseph, Next To You centers on a 20-something guy who reconnects with his high school crush who once again is his ‘girl next door’— this time in NYC.

Joseph executive produces with Kapital’s Kaplan and Honor.

Before creating and executive producing CBS’ comedy series The Great Indoors starring Joel McHale, Gibbons co-created and executive produced Comedy Central’s long-running hit Tosh.0.

Fox has put in development G-Men, a multi-camera family comedy from writer Luke Cunningham (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon), Austen Earl (Happy Together) and 20th Century Fox TV.

Written by Cunningham, G-Men follows two estranged brothers — who both claim to be government agents, even though one is a hardcore FBI agent and the other’s a part-time mailman — struggle to put their vast differences aside when they reunite to help their larger-than-life mother move on after the death of their father. They hate this new arrangement at first, but ultimately they realize that sometimes it’s the people you agree with the least who inspire you to be your best.

Cunningham and Earl executive produce. The project is a co-production between 20th Century Fox TV and Fox Entertainment.

Cunningham was a writer on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and moved to The Tonight Show with Fallon as a writer for the first three seasons.

“Happy Together” creator Austen Earl and writer Luke Cunningham have set up a project at Fox.

The network has given a script commitment to “G-Men,” a multi-camera comedy from the pair that hails from 20th Century Fox TV and Fox Entertainment.

“G-Men” centers around two estranged brothers who both claim to be government agents despite the fact that one works for the FBI and the other is a part-time mailman. The duo struggle to put their differences aside when they reunite to help their “larger-than-life mother” move on after their father passes away. While at first they’re not best pleased with the new arrangement, they ultimately realize that sometimes it’s the people you agree with the least who inspire you to be your best.

Cunningham will pen and exec produce the project, while Earl serves as a non-writing executive producer.

Earl is also known for his work on the Mark Feuerstein sitcom “9Jkl,...

Apple TV Plus this month moved off a project in which Richard Gere was set to play a Vietnam veteran whose life is upended when the woman he loved 50 years ago dies in a car crash. According to the logline for the shelved series, her death leads to his and another character’s “lifelong regrets and secrets” colliding with their “resentment of today’s self-absorbed millennials.” The duo then “go on a shooting spree.” The very next day, Netflix announced a series order for a Kevin James comedy in which the actor plays a Nascar crew chief who “finds himself at odds with tech reliant millennials” when they start working in his garage.

It’s perhaps unsurprising that Apple decided to move on from the Gere project, as a shooting spree partially motivated by hatred of millennials seems hardly in keeping with the tech giant’s general message. However, the...

When Liz Feldman walked into the pitch meeting that led to the creation of “Dead to Me,” Netflix’s new dark comedy series starring Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini, she had nothing to contribute — or so she thought.

“I had just turned 40, and on my 40th birthday, very unexpectedly and sadly, my cousin passed away. He was not much older than me. So I was in a weird, dark place. I was, at that point, on my 5th or 6th year of trying to get pregnant, and I was on fertility hormones. I was grieving,” Feldman told TheWrap. “And here I am now at this pitch meeting, and they’re asking me if I have anything for two women, and I just — something just kind of popped into my brain,” she says.

Then came a “Eureka!” moment.

“I was like, ‘One of them is a widow, and she meets the...

Nowhere is it written that half-hour series have to be comedies, and yet “Dead To Me” seems adversely intent on sticking with tradition. Labeled a “dark comedy” by Netflix, the upcoming 10-episode first season is light on jokes and heavy on drama; even the darker elements in the twisty, flashback-driven mystery are treated as serious emotional turning points, rather than cringe-inducing punchlines. Only the pacing and occasional glib comment give the sense that humor is present, for “Dead To Me” provides no indication it has a sense of humor at all.

In today’s day and age, laugh-less half-hours are nothing new. Not only have series like “Girls” and “Transparent” stretched the definition of comedy, but more recent series like “Homecoming” and “Sorry to Bother You” have ditched the descriptor all-together. They’re not comedies. They’re dramas, only shorter.

But “Dead To Me” doesn’t work as a drama either.

As previously reported, ABC is reviving the Card Sharks game show for Summer 2019. The series' host will also be familiar to TV viewers -- comic actor Joel McHale. In addition to acting on sitcoms like Community and The Great Indoors, he's hosted or co-hosted programs like The Soup, The People's Choice Awards, Live! with Kelly, and The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale.

Here's the press announcement from the alphabet network:

ABC Stacks The Deck With Joel McHale As Host Of 'Card Sharks,' Premiering This Summer On ABC

ABC Entertainment and Fremantle announced today that actor and comedian Joel McHale is set to host "Card Sharks," the suspenseful game where a fortune can be won on the turn of a single playing card! The show is slated to air this summer on The ABC Television...

Exclusive: Nancy Lenehan (Veep) and Phil Hendrie (New Girl) are set as leads opposite Katherine Heigl and Malcolm Barrett in CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot Our House, from Sony Pictures TV and CBS TV Studios. In addition, Chris Harris (How I Met Your Mother) has been tapped as executive producer and showrunner as part of his overall deal with CBS TV Studios.

Written by Brendan O’Brien and directed by James Burrows, Our House centers on a devoted dad, Shawn (Barrett), and mom, Bridget (Heigl), who are committed to raising their children with the love and support the mom never got as a kid but discover how difficult that is with her insane parents, played by Lenehan and Hendrie, and siblings back in the picture.

Lenehan will play Laura, Bridget’s (Heigl) loving, passive-aggressive mother who feels like she no longer has a place in her family after her daughter renovates...

After years of flexing his comedic muscles on Community and beyond, Joel McHale is headed to DC Universe to flex his actual muscles. The actor is joining the cast of Stargirl in the recurring role of Sylvester Pemberton (aka Starman), TVLine’s sister publication Variety reports.

Starring Brec Bassinger in the title role, Stargirl (premiere date Tbd) follows a high school sophomore named Courteney Whitmore who rallies a motley crew of young heroes to help her battle villains from the past. A member of the Justice Society of America, Starman charges into battle with a “mysterious anti-gravity weapon called the cosmic staff.

Joel McHale has been cast as Sylvester Pemberton aka Starman on the upcoming DC Universe series “Stargirl,” Variety has learned exclusively.

The role is being described as “Golden Age Starman” and will be a recurring one for McHale.

A courageous and confident superhero, Starman is a member of the Justice Society of America. He wields a mysterious anti-gravity weapon called the cosmic staff and has a longtime sidekick named Stripesy, who is better known as Courtney Whitmore’s stepfather, Pat Dugan.

McHale is an accomplished actor, standup comedian and author. His prior scripted television credits include “Community,” “The Great Indoors” and “The X-Files” revival, while on the unscripted side he hosted “The Soup” for a dozen seasons and earlier this year moved the pop culture commentary format over to Netflix for “The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale.” His recent film credits include “The Happytime Murders,” “A Merry Friggin Christmas,...

This doesn’t qualify as breaking news, but the current glut of TV revivals we’re experiencing isn’t exactly fueled by creative necessity. As fun as it is to see some of these old casts yukking it up together again, let’s be real: Most of these revivals are solely designed to provide a short-term ratings fix for desperate broadcast networks — and quality is beside the point. CBS’ revival of Murphy Brown, which debuts this Thursday (9:30/8:30c), at least has a compelling hook to hang itself on: the election of President Trump and the war on the press he’s currently waging.

Austen Earl is attached as an executive producer on a new multi-camera comedy in development at CBS, Variety has learned exclusively.

Hailing from Gracie Glassmeyer, the series is titled “The Crew.” In the show, when the family patriarch dies, his son has to step up and take the wheel as the driver of the father’s racing team.

Glassmeyer will write and co-executive produce, with CBS Television Studios producing. Earl is currently under an overall deal at the studio.

Earl is currently a writer and executive producer on the CBS multi-cam series “Happy Together,” in which Damon Wayans, Jr. and Amber Stevens West play a married couple whose ordinary life takes an unexpected turn when a rock star (Felix Mallard) moves in with them. Earl co-created the series with Tim McAuliffe, with “Happy Together” set to premiere on Oct. 1

Earl’s previous credits include fellow CBS shows “9Jkl,” “The Great Indoors,...

John Cho, Tzi Ma and Christine Ko will star in Alan Yang’s multi-generational family drama for Netflix with shooting in New York and Taiwan beginning next week.

Yang is directing “Tigertail” from his own script, based on events that happened in his own family. The movie touches on themes of regret, longing, passion, and repression while spanning continents and generations, from 1950’s Taiwan to present-day New York City. Ma and Ko are the leads.

Aziz Ansari and Yang co-created the Netflix series “Master of None” and the duo won an Emmy for their writing. Yang was also a writer and producer for NBC’s “Parks and Recreation.”

Yang is also a producer on “Tigertail” along with Macro’s Charles D. King (“Mudbound”), Kim Roth (“Inside Man”), and Poppy Hanks (“Fences”). Executive producers are Peter Pastorelli (“Beasts of No Nation”) and David Lee (“Life of Pi”).

Cho stars in the thriller “Searching,...

John Cho will star in Tigertail, a multi-generational drama from Alan Yang, the co-creator of Master of None.

Veteran actor Tzi Ma (Arrival) and Christine Ko (Hawaii Five-o, The Great Indoors) are also starring in the Netflix feature project, which Yang wrote and is directing based on events that happened in his family. Tigertail is set to begin shooting next week in New York and Taiwan.

The pic focuses on two people’s poor life choices and the consequences of those decisions, exploring themes of regret, longing, passion and repression while spanning continents and generations, from 1950s Taiwan to present-day New York City....

John Cho will star in Tigertail, a multi-generational drama from Alan Yang, the co-creator of Master of None.

Veteran actor Tzi Ma (Arrival) and Christine Ko (Hawaii Five-o, The Great Indoors) are also starring in the Netflix feature project, which Yang wrote and is directing based on events that happened in his family. Tigertail is set to begin shooting next week in New York and Taiwan.

The pic focuses on two people’s poor life choices and the consequences of those decisions, exploring themes of regret, longing, passion and repression while spanning continents and generations, from 1950s Taiwan to present-day New York City....

The Great Indoors alum Shaun Brown has booked a recurring role on the second season of Hulu comedy series Future Man. Written by Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir and executive produced by Matt Tolmach, the high-concept comedy centers on Josh Futterman (Josh Hutcherson) a janitor by day/world-ranked gamer by night who is tasked with preventing the extinction of humans after mysterious visitors from the future proclaim him the key to defeating the imminent super-race invasion. Brown will play Hatchet, an integral member of a unique family group that Wolf (Derek Wilson) becomes apart of thanks to a case of mistaken identity. Brown previously played the series regular role of Mason on The Great Indoors and most recently recurred on Grace and Frankie. He’s repped by Luber Roklin Entertainment, Paradigm Talent Agency, and Skrzyniarz & Mallean

Michael Galante (Switched at Birth) is set for a recurring role in Good Trouble,...

It was a moment that seemed strangely out of place. The Titanic was in its death throes when the maestro behind the mayhem turned to Eric Braeden and uttered a single word: "Never.” Eric felt the questioning look cross his own face as he turned to the voice. The confusion evident, the speaker, director James Cameron, explained: "The last line in Colossus." Eric smiled, struck by the fact that the director wasn’t referencing his, at that point, 17 (now 38) year run as Victor Newman on the TV soap The Young and the Restless, but, instead, his portrayal of Dr. Charles Forbin in a little sci-fi thriller from 1970 about a computer that takes over the world. At the same time, he was forced to reflect on his own bittersweet feelings regarding that film — Colossus: The Forbin Project — his first starring role in a Hollywood production. (Photo Credit: Getty Images) "I was...

Last year, although it earned much lower demo ratings and drew a somewhat smaller total viewership than the cancelled The Great Indoors, CBS renewed its Superior Donuts TV show for a second season. We may never know if it was the premise, the writing, the cast, or an executive with a sweet tooth that saved this fledgling sitcom. What matters now is whether or not it can retain or even build upon its freshman season audience. Will Superior Donuts be cancelled or renewed for season three? Stay tuned. *Status update below.A CBS comedy based on the Tracy Letts play of the same name, Superior Donuts stars Judd Hirsch, Jermaine Fowler, Katey Sagal, David Koechner, Maz Jobrani, Anna Baryshnikov, Darien Sills-Evans, Rell Battle, and Diane Guerrero. The story centers on an old-school Chicago donut shop owner, Arthur Przybyszewski (Hirsch), who is loath to keep...

Exclusive: Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco has made a deal with Lionsgate to develop a multi-generational comedy he will cowrote as a starring vehicle. Maniscalco is teaming on the script with Austen Earl (The Great Indoors). It will be inspired by Maniscalco’s stage routines, which touch on his Italian American family. The aim is for an Italian-flavored My Big Fat Greek Wedding-type comedy. The story follows two families from different worlds as they look to celebrate their first summer holiday together. Maniscalco will be executive producer.

Maniscalco recently completed his first movie roles, in the Martin Scorsese-directed The Irishman for Netflix, and in the Viggo Mortensen-starrer Green Book.

This coincides with Maniscalco’s emergence as one of the top touring comics in the country. Last weekend, he played five full houses at Radio City Music Hall, where he shot his latest stand up special for Netflix. The streaming...

According to Variety, Netflix has just picked up a new “dark comedy” from The Great Indoors and 2 Broke Girls writer Liz Feldman (who was also the creator of NBC’s short-lived One Big Happy), with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay on board as producers. The show is called Dead To Me, and the Variety story says it’s about a…

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Netflix has given a series order to a dark comedy from writer Liz Feldman and executive producers Will Ferrell and Adam McKay.

Titled “Dead to Me,” it is about a powerful friendship that blossoms between a tightly wound widow and a free spirit with a shocking secret. Netflix has given the show a 10-episode first season order.

Feldman will executive produce alongside Ferrell and McKay, who will produce via their Gloria Sanchez Productions banner, the female-centric counterpart to the pair’s Gary Sanchez Productions. Jessica Elbaum of Gloria Sanchez will also executive produce. CBS Television Studios, where Feldman, Ferrell and McKay are set up under overall deals, will produce in association with Gloria Sanchez.

Feldman most recently worked on the CBS comedies “The Great Indoors” and “2 Broke Girls.” She also created the NBC comedy series “One Big Happy.” Her other credits include writing for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” “Blue Collar TV,...

Joel McHale is unleashed. The comedian’s new Netflix series “The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale” looks a bit like his long-running E! series “The Soup,” thanks to the green screen, the guest stars, and The Staffer Formerly Known As Mankini. But the new show comes armed with a secret weapon in executive producer Paul Feig, and a mandate to expand the scope beyond entertainment.

“We wanted to broaden the show,” McHale recently told IndieWire’s Turn It On podcast. “E! always wanted me to keep it to entertainment news or entertainment and no sports or anything like that, and don’t get too weird. This allows us to go all over the place.”

McHale spent 11 years as host of “The Soup,” and kept it going even as his career exploded and he ended up starring in the late great comedy “Community.” But as management changed at E!, McHale...

It’s a rallying cry familiar to fans of “Community”: “six seasons and a movie,” a promise that was only met halfway by the fates that guide the entertainment industry. But one reason for that lack of movie is that those who once starred on the NBC cult comedy have gone on to exciting and new projects showcasing their talents, from “Atlanta” (Donald Glover) to “Love” (Gillian Jacobs) to “Glow” (Alison Brie).

Even Joel McHale has moved on to something new — albeit relatively familiar — with “The Joel McHale Show With Joel McHale,” the new Netflix series that owes a clear debt to E!’s long-running pop culture commentary series “The Soup” (which McHale hosted from 2004-2015). During the most recent episode, guest star Billy Eichner showed up to yell about some stuff (on brand), including a reminder that McHale, one-time star of the canceled series “The Great Indoors,” had...

Now that he has been tasked with heading up the organized crime task force within the task force, Hawaii Five-0‘s Adam needs some help. And where should an ex-con scout out talent, but a prison?

RELATEDFive-0 Star Shares a Funny Tale of Two TV Wives

In the exclusive sneak peek above from tonight’s episode (CBS, 9/8c), a young woman named Jessie Nomura — played by new recurring cast member Christine Ko, formerly of CBS’ The Great Indoors — has barely set one foot outside of the prison gates when Adam pulls up to offer her a ride. If only because...

Now that the broadcasters have completed their run of fresh episodes for the fall, let’s see how each network’s shows are stacking up thus far for the 2017-18 TV season, now turning to CBS.

RELATEDMidseason Ratings Report: What Are ABC’s Best & Worst Shows?

Listed below is the average Live+Same Day demo Rating for each CBS series. Beside that is the percent Change versus each program’s previous full-season average (or its time slot predecessor’s performance, if noted to the right). The Notes section also reminds of any time slot changes to keep in mind when eyeballing up/down movements.

Snapshot with finals: New series premiere: CBS’ S.W.A.T. (1.1 in 18-49, 6,7 million); New series time slot premiere: CBS’ Young Sheldon; Returning series premiere: CBS’ Mom (1.4, 8.5 million), Life in Pieces (1.2, 6.7 million).

Updated: CBS debuted its post-Thursday Night Football lineup last night, but the initial ratings results are inconclusive as the network’s lineup was pre-empted in the country’s top market, New York City, as well as in Buffalo, for the Jets-Bills game. As a result, except for The Big Bang Theory, which aired before the game, the CBS fast nationals were inflated and are expected to undergo significant downward adjustments in the finals by as much as 0.3 or 0.4. However, had there been no pre-emption in the NY market, CBS’ series are projected to have delivered Live+same day ratings in line or slightly below the current fast nationals, so they...

Easily one of my favorite viewing experiences over the last year was watching John C. McGinley reluctantly get off his recliner to fight demons with wit, weapons, and one-liners on IFC's Stan Against Evil. Although the series won't officially premiere until November 1st, IFC has released the third episode of the second season online early for all to enjoy, and you can watch it right here, right now (just be sure to hurry up, though, because Stan doesn't like to wait).

Press Release: New York – October 13, 2017 – This Friday the 13th prepare to be afraid..ish. IFC announced today that a Season 2 episode of their horror-comedy original series Stan Against Evil, created by Dana Gould (The Simpsons), is now available to watch commercial-free, three weeks before the series’ linear premiere. The episode is available on a variety of network platforms including VOD, TV Everywhere, and IFC’s social, mobile and digital pages,...

When you see a demon baby running down the hall towards you, there's a good chance you're in Willard's Mill, a cursed town that's held in check by the retired sheriff (John C. McGinley) and the current sheriff (Janet Varney). With the second season of the hilarious horror comedy premiering November 1st on IFC, a new trailer for the series has been unleashed at New York Comic Con, and we have it right here (as well as several behind-the-scenes videos) for Daily Dead readers to enjoy.

Press Release: Be afraid. Be very afraid….ish. The official Season 2 trailer for IFC’s horror-comedy Stan Against Evil, unveiled today at New York Comic Con, offers a sneak-peek at the demonic creatures, ghosts, and wareponies (yes, ponies) rising to delightfully frighten the residents of Willard’s Mill.

Season 2 welcomes returning stars John C. McGinley (Scrubs) as Stan Miller, the curmudgeonly retired police-sheriff, and...

As the "most watched" broadcast network, CBS holds its comedies to some pretty lofty standards where the Nielsen ratings are concerned. Last year, although Joel McHale's The Great Indoors was the Tiffany Network's sixth best rated scripted series in terms of its demo numbers (and 14th in terms of total viewership), it was cancelled after just one season. In the 2017-18 television season, their new comedies include Mark Feuerstein's 9Jkl TV show, as well as Me, Myself & I, and The Big Bang Theory prequel Young Sheldon. Who will have the last laugh? Will 9Jkl be cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned. A CBS scripted comedy, 9Jkl stars Mark Feuerstein, David Walton, Elliott Gould, Linda Lavin, Liza Lapira, Matt Murray, and Albert Tsai. From creators Dana Klein and Feuerstein — a married couple — this sitcom is loosely inspired by the...

Last season, CBS introduced only seven new shows during the regular season. They cancelled three,  renewed three, and one (Supergirl) moved to The CW. How will their new programming do in the ratings this time around? Stay tuned.CBS shows this season (so far): 2 Broke Girls, 48 Hours, 48 Hours: NCIS, 60 Minutes, The Amazing Rice, The Big Bang Theory, Big Brother, Blue Bloods, Bull, Candy Crush, The Case Of, Cbsn: On Assignment, Code Black, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, Doubt, Elementary, The Great Indoors, Hawaii Five-0, Hunted, Kevin Can Wait, Life in Pieces, MacGyver, Madam Secretary, Man with a Plan, Mom, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, The Odd Couple, Pure Genius, Ransom, Salvation, Scorpion, Superior Donuts, Survivor, Training Day, Undercover Boss and Zoo.There's lots of data that CBS execs look at when deciding whether to renew or cancel a TV series but ratings are typically the biggest piece. Here's how the network's shows...