Just For Laughs has inked $20M in new broadcast TV deals ahead of the launch of this year’s festival — the first edition of Jfl Montreal in two years — organizers announced on Tuesday.
Among the 50 hours programming announced as part of the deal, which will be broadcast around the world, is Roast Battle Canada, Season 5, which the fest’s new President & CEO Sylvain Parent-Bédard teased in a sit-down with colleagues Spencer Griffin and Nick Brazao in our just-released Comedy Means Business podcast on the festival. Take a look at further highlights below.
“Some of these broadcasters are reconnecting with Just for Laughs after several years, while others are joining us for the very first time,” said Parent-Bédard today. “Together, they’ve partnered with us to make this relaunch a shared success and to provide an extraordinary global platform for comedy from here and around the world.”
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Among the 50 hours programming announced as part of the deal, which will be broadcast around the world, is Roast Battle Canada, Season 5, which the fest’s new President & CEO Sylvain Parent-Bédard teased in a sit-down with colleagues Spencer Griffin and Nick Brazao in our just-released Comedy Means Business podcast on the festival. Take a look at further highlights below.
“Some of these broadcasters are reconnecting with Just for Laughs after several years, while others are joining us for the very first time,” said Parent-Bédard today. “Together, they’ve partnered with us to make this relaunch a shared success and to provide an extraordinary global platform for comedy from here and around the world.”
This is another...
- 7/15/2025
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Search Party writer Sabrina Jalees has landed a single-camera comedy, set in New York City, at Peacock.
The streamer is developing Landing, which comes from Greg Berlanti’s company Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
Jalees, who created the series, will write and exec produce with Berlanti exec producing alongside his partners David Madden and Sarah Schechter.
Landing is an ensemble comedy that follows a family of queer friends in their mid-20s living in Brooklyn trying to get somewhere and be someone before they’re priced out of their apartments and their dreams. Inspired by Jalees’ life, the comedy is about a group of young people all vying to make their mark — but for now, they’ll settle for making eye contact with the hot bartender.
Jalees, who wrote and served as an executive story editor on HBO Max’s millennial dramedy Search Party, has also co-produced Netflix’s Human Resources,...
The streamer is developing Landing, which comes from Greg Berlanti’s company Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
Jalees, who created the series, will write and exec produce with Berlanti exec producing alongside his partners David Madden and Sarah Schechter.
Landing is an ensemble comedy that follows a family of queer friends in their mid-20s living in Brooklyn trying to get somewhere and be someone before they’re priced out of their apartments and their dreams. Inspired by Jalees’ life, the comedy is about a group of young people all vying to make their mark — but for now, they’ll settle for making eye contact with the hot bartender.
Jalees, who wrote and served as an executive story editor on HBO Max’s millennial dramedy Search Party, has also co-produced Netflix’s Human Resources,...
- 12/10/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
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