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Aubrey Plaza is an actress, comedian, and producer, who is best known for starring as April on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation from 2009–2015. Plaza began her acting career by performing improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in 2004, and also performed stand-up at the Laugh Factory and The Improv. She then starred in the online series The Jeannie Tate Show, then appeared in ESPN's Mayne Street, and the first episode of Funny or Die’s Terrible Decisions with Ben Schwartz.

She obtained her first leading role in Safety Not Guaranteed in 2012, and has continued acting into the present day. For her work spanning decades, she has received accolades, and awards, and was named one of the top 100 influential people in 2023 by Time Magazine.

Plaza is known for her deadpan comedy style, which involves deliberately displaying neutral or no emotion as a comedic delivery to contrast...

Four bona fide bachelors living the single life in a short-term apartment complex: Sounds like a reality show, but it’s actually the premise of CBS’ We Are Men, which debuted Monday at 8:30/7:30c.

The comedy series stars Christopher Nicholas Smith (Mayne Street) as Carter Thomas, an average Joe who moves into the complex after his fianceé leaves him at the altar. There, he meets three experienced lotharios who’ve gone through their fair share of bad romance: Frank (Monk’s Tony Shalhoub), a four-time ex-husband who now has an affinity for younger women; Gil (House’s Kal Penn...

On TV this Monday: CBS’ other Men makes their first move, the Sandman enters Sleepy Hollow, Bones feels the burn and The Blacklist targets an assassin. Here are 10 programs to keep on your radar.

8 pm Bones (Fox) | The team investigates the murder of Jamie Delcampo, whose remains were found in a burnt-out car; Sweets takes a hiatus. (Watch an exclusive clip.)

8 pm How I Met Your Mother (CBS) | Barney and Robin squeeze in some alone time before their relatives arrive for the wedding. (Get behind-the-scenes scoop from Ted’s “kids”.)

8 pm iHeartRadio Music Festival (CW) | Two-night special presentation: Performers include...

The premiere online destination for college coeds and people that like to laugh that regularly garners over 15 million unique monthly visitors, produces somewhere in the ballpark of 15 to 20 original comedy videos per week, and spawns traditional media offshoots in the form of books (CollegeHumor. The Website. The Book., The CollegeHumor Guide To College: Selling Kidneys for Beer Money, Sleeping with Your Professors,Majoring in Communications, and Other Really Good Ideas, and Faking It: How to Seem Like a Better Person Without Actually Improving Yourself) and cable television shows (MTV’s The College Humor Show and Pranked) is getting into the movie business. Steven Zeitchik at the La Times broke the news CollegeHumor bought the script for Coffee Town (a “movie about thirtysomething underacheivers”) from Brad Copeland and hired the Arrested Development writer and producer to direct the feature. Glenn Howerton (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Steve Little (Eastbound...

Kenny Mayne is no newcomer to the web series world. The collegiate quarterback and almost-30-year veteran of professional sports broadcasting with a penchant for ponies, dry wit, and deadpan delivery starred in the 2008 Espn original web series Mayne Street, where he played an exaggerated version of himself in a kind of This is Sportscenter campaign come to caricatured life. If you didn’t catch Mayne in his eponymous scripted program, you should. Once you’re done with the three-season, 30-or-so-episode show, then be sure to tune into Mayne’s eponymous unscripted program / new vehicle for his special brand of monotoned humor. Kenny Mayne’s Wilder World of Sports is the latest branded original web series from Espn. Sponsred by Jc Penny’s Van Huesen clothing line for the athletics-oriented male, the program documents Mayne’s travels to exotic locales (including Ireland, England, Brazil, South Africa, New Zealand, and Thailand...

Just in time for March Madness—the Ncaa Men's Division I Basketball Championship—YouTube and Espn's SportsCenter have teamed up with At&T to release Your Highlight, giving YouTubers a chance to have their best amateur sports highlights aired on SportsCenter. SportsCenter's producers will pre-select the best thirty second videos which will in turn be voted on by the YouTube community, no doubt using the YouTube moderator tool developed to create more engagement and interactivity along with the annotations tool. Four finalists will be revealed May 12, and the winner will be flown to Espn headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut, for the taping of a special segment on SportsCenter. The Espn YouTube channel is already featuring submissions, broken down into basketball, football, baseball, and soccer categories. Check out 12 Year Old Trick Shot Quarterback Johnny Sullivan from Iowa. Users are invited to "submit your great sports video" before the May 5, 2011 deadline. Be sure...

Sports and web series are like egg nog and Canadian Whisky—mixed together they make even the worst of Mondays mornings tolerable. Athletes are natural pranksters and the world of sports is so rife for parody it’s no wonder jocks make the best SNL hosts. By now, we thought Espn’s plucky send-up Mayne Street and Vuguru’s Back on Topps have thoroughly mined the world of sports cameos, not to mention the one-on-self athelte punking Double Take (watch Shaq’s ep again) that bowed in November. But then comes this latest call-up, an indie comedy, Sports Ballz, from creators Jason Schmid and Jake Bern in its initial run on Funny or Die. Related News:‘Narrow World of Sports’, Peter Mehlman’s Fresh Jock Comedy ‘Flash Sports Tonight’ – A Cleverly Crass Espn Roid Fest ‘Palisades Pool Party’, One Sexy Fun Awkward Conundrum...

Attention, "30 Rock" producers: Should you need a thoroughly deadpan sidekick for perky page Kenneth, look no further than Aubrey Plaza. Before she nabbed roles on "Parks and Recreation" and in the upcoming film "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World," the emerging comedic talent did time as a real-life NBC page."I was not good at it," confesses Plaza, who appeared briefly on "30 Rock" as, you guessed it, a page. "To be a good page, you have to have this cheerleader mentality, which really works for some people. Most of the job is giving those studio tours to, like, 30 tourists, and I was always taking those as opportunities to do a weird character."A firm grasp on weird characters paid off much later, when Plaza landed a trio of career-making roles during a single Los Angeles visit. In addition to the "Scott Pilgrim" and "Parks and Recreation" gigs, Plaza also nabbed a...

Fresh off of the launch of last year's Road to the Altar, rumor has it that Jaleel White had officially caught the web series bug. In a surprise move today, episodes 1-3 of Jaleel's newest series, Fake it Till You Make, launched on Hulu. White's boutique production shingle, Sweet Irony Productions, and New York based P3 Entertainment collabed on production of the 10 episode series, all of which were penned and produced by White. White and his team were rumored to have been shopping the series around town, and early indicators of serious interest from online network Hulu, seem to have panned out. Sources from within White's camp have confirmed that the distribution deal with Hulu is a kind of 'rev share plus' with a minimum guarantee and payouts per view. Directed by web series vet Todd Pellegrino (Mayne Street), Fake It Til You Make It series stars White as entertainment mogul Reggie Culkin,...

In the world of sports, Tony Stewart is a household name. Fittingly since Nascar drivers are making TV and web cameos these days as often as their NBA and NFL colleagues, with shows like Espn.com’s Mayne Street or Vuguru’s Back on Topps regular stops for some easy publicity. But most of the time we’re talking a few choices lines and a drop in, not actually carrying a show. When Tony Stewart’s Nascar sponsor Armor All wanted to tap their star driver’s outgoing nature, they whipped up a reality web series last year called Off Track with Tony Stewart with their agency Edelman’s digital arm Matter producing. It was a modest first effort—nothing too fancy or particularly buzzworthy—but good enough for Armor All to take it a step further. You see, in the world of branded entertainment there’s the safe reality...

NBC has the new J.J. Abrams ("Lost," "Alias") show on its fall schedule -- "Undercovers," an action spy thriller starring Boris Kodjoe ("Soul Food"), Gugu Mbatha-Raw ("Doctor Who"), Gerald McRaney ("Deadwood," "Jericho"), Jessica Parker Kennedy ("Valemont"), Carter MacIntyre ("American Heiress") and Ben Schwartz ("Mayne Street").

"Undercovers" follows the adventures of a retired husband and wife team suddenly thrust back into their former lives as CIA agents. The couple are Steven and Samantha Bloom, played by Kodjoe and Mbatha-Raw.

Joining J.J. Abrams as executive producers are Josh Reims ("Brothers & Sisters," "Dirty Sexy Money") and Bryan Burk, who has collaborated with Abrams on "Lost," "Alias" and the 2008 movie "Cloverfield."

Check out these sneak peeks below and let us know what you think. Is "Undercovers" going to be the first step on NBC getting its mojo back? "Undercovers" will air Wednesday nights at 8 p.m. Et in the fall according to the just-released NBC night-by-night schedule.

As the writer-producer of my latest webseries, Fake It Til You Make It, I can honestly say I exhausted all of my resources for the first time in my life. I spent less and achieved more. Execution was a logistical hell and I'd do it all over again in the blink of an eye. Two days before principal photography, my old friend Xavier insisted on flying himself in from Texas to lend a helping hand. I have nothing for him to do. My girls from @Springcart have been on it with styling, art direction, location scouting, etc. Todd Pellegrino (Mayne Street/Espn), my ace in the hole director, arrives from NY, working from stills, he's never visited a single location. An actress-friend I casted months ago bails on me with a Generation...

Sometimes in sports, an event occurs that seems to be straight of a movie. A buzzer beater to win the championships, a walk off homerun for the series, or an impossible catch to keep a drive alive all qualify in this case. Espn The Magazine has seized on the human and sometimes amazing drama of sports for their web series: NFL Writers Room. Right from the kickoff, you must realize that this is a web series for football Fans, not just people who like one team, but people who are familiar with every game, player, coach, and throwback uniform design. You know the type: four different fantasy teams going at once, obsessively tracking player data to predict game winners, and knowing detailed data on every single major player. This is a web series for them. Created by NY-based production team 12 Angry Mascots, the series is a behind the scenes look...

Neil Patrick Harris has snagged two feature film roles: a starring gig in the indie farce "The Best and the Brightest" and a supporting role in CBS Films' "Beastly."

Co-written and directed by Josh Shelov, "Best" revolves around a couple from Delaware who move to New York's Upper East Side and enter the world of the city's private kindergartens.

Harris is playing the husband, who is not worried about his social status. Bonnie Somerville is on board as the class-aware wife. Also cast are Amy Sedaris, John Hodgman, Peter Serafinowicz, Bridget Regan, Kate Mulgrew and Christopher McDonald. Robert and Patricia Weiser are reteaming with Richard Schiffrin -- with whom they collaborated on the steroid documentary "Bigger Stronger Faster" -- to produce along with Nicholas Simon.

Shelov, who penned "Green Street Hooligans" and created the Espn series "Mayne Street," wrote the script with Michael Jaeger. Shooting recently began in Philadelphia.

In "Beastly,...

Movie Jungle has new video interviews and other clips from NBC's "Parks and Recreation." Interviews clips include Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman and executive producer Michael Schur. Also, see behind the scenes footage as well as five clips from the series created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur. About "Parks & Recreation" From Emmy Award-winning executive producers Greg Daniels (NBC’s "The Office," "King of the Hill") and Michael Schur (NBC’s "The Office," "Saturday Night Live") comes a new mockumentary that looks at the exciting world of local government. The new half-hour comedy will examine the mundane but necessary ways that people interact with their government, and ask why it's frequently so complicated -- as everyone knows from standing in line at the Dmv, applying for home construction permits, or trying to get the city to fix a pothole. The documentary cameras follow Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler,...

Take the This is SportsCenter commercial campaign, minimize the camera time of all Espn personalities who aren’t Kenny Mayne, extend the 30-second spots to a series of 15 three to five-minute episodes, and add a few NYC improv comics and you’ll have a close approximation to the little bit of wonderful that is Espn’s second (I count the soapy spoof Endless Drama as the network’s first) online original series, Mayne Street. Presented by Nyquil, produced by Espn vets Todd Pellegrino and Josh Shelov in association with P3 Entertainment (which was also behind Cheap Seats, whose Randy and Jason Sklar currently star in another sports-centric online original, Back on Topps), and set mostly in and around the streets of New York City and the dish-laden Espn campus in Bristol, Connecticut, the series depicts the fictionalized business life of Kenny Mayne. That includes overzealous bosses bent on product integration,...

As we reported back in August, Espn has officially joined the scripted web television game. Well-known Espn personality, and thirteen-year network veteran, Kenny Mayne will star in Mayne Street which debuts on Espn's site tomorrow, a few weeks after its originally scheduled October launch. Over the course of its fifteen episode run, the show will chronicle the semi-fictionalized life of Mayne – who more or less plays himself. Of the role, Mayne writes on his blog, "I felt guilty getting paid to do the work on the new show Mayne Street. Not guilty enough to give the money back. But guilty. They told me it was acting, but all I had to do was be me. I gained two pounds for this role. I'm hopeful the show has success but I'm also a bit worried that it might have too much success. If it has too much success they'll move it to ABC,...