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Everywhere she goes, Michelle Buteau has a rapt audience. On a Wednesday afternoon in January, we’re at a double-­duty gay bar and gastropub in Brooklyn, talking over shoestring fries and coffee about her most recent stand-up special, which dropped New Year’s Eve on Netflix. Titled A Buteau-ful Mind, it was the first comedy show ever filmed by a woman at Radio City Music Hall. “It’s like going to church,” she’s saying of playing to the venue’s nearly 6,000 seats. “You gotta let the people in the back feel it.

The Connersseason 7 adds its first new character, recruiting a Buffy the Vampire Slayer star for the final episodes. The Conners season 7 will premiere on Wednesay, March 26 at 8 Pm Et on ABC, kicking off the farewell to a sitcom family that stretches back decades. The six-episode farewell event will conclude not just the popular spinoff, but also serve as a wrap on the world that Roseanne introduced all the way back in 1988. Before that happens though, there's a bit more story to go through.

Deadlineconfirms that Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Austin Powers alum Seth Green has joined The Conners season 7. Green, known for playing the werewolf Oz on Buffy, in addition to voicing Chris Griffin on Family Guy, will play Darlene's new friend Chad. He's seen at the Lobo, a central location on the sitcom, and he's going through a separation from his wife. Green will appear in three episodes,...

Exclusive: Seth Green has joined the cast of The Conners for the upcoming seventh and final season.

Green will play Chad, Darlene’s new friend at the Lobo who is going through a separation from his wife, in a three-episode arc. Chad and Darlene confide in each other and bond, a little too closely, over their similar biting humor.

The Roseanne follow-up series will kick off its final, abbreviated six-episode season on Wednesday, March 26 at 8 pm on ABC.

For over three decades, audiences have followed along with the Conners as they navigate the daily struggles of life in Lanford. Dan, Jackie, Darlene and Becky grapple with parenthood, marriage, financial pressures and aging in working-class America. Through it all—the fights, the coupon cutting, the hand-me-downs, the breakdowns—with love, humor and perseverance, the family prevails.

It stars John Goodman as Dan Conner, Laurie Metcalf as Jackie Harris, Sara Gilbert as Darlene Conner,...

Two high school friends pose as trans women in the teaser trailer for the comedy film She’s the He, which is set to premiere at the SXSW Film Festival.

Starring Misha Osherovich and Nico Carney, writer-director Siobhan McCarthy’s feature makes its world premiere at SXSW on March 9. Rounding out the cast are Suzanne Cryer (Broad City), Mark Indelicato (Hacks), Malia Pyles (Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin), Emmett Preciado (Good Trouble), Aparna Nancherla (Another Simple Favor), Kyle Butenhoff (Monsters), Tatiana Ringsby and Emma Orr.

She’s the He focuses on high school friends Ethan (Osherovich) and Alex (Carney), who pretend to be trans women during the final week before graduation to help Alex connect with his crush. In the process, Ethan realizes she is actually trans.

“The only way that I can think of to make you seem not super gay is if I was a girl,” Osherovich says in the below trailer,...

Kumail Nanjiani is returning to stand-up comedy after 10 years with a new special for Hulu.

The hour is Nanjiani’s first comedy special in 12 years, his second after 2013’s “Beta Male.” A release date and title will be revealed at a later date.

ITV America and TheYearOfElan will produce the new special, which is executive produced by Nanjiani, Elan Gale and Bernie Schaeffer.

Nanjiani is a comedian and actor best known for his roles in the HBO comedy series “Silicon Valley” and the romantic comedy film “Big Sick,” which he co-wrote with his wife, Emily V. Gordon, about their relationship. His credits range from blockbuster fare to beloved comedy programs. Nanjiani is an Oscar nominee for the “Big Sick” screenplay and an Emmy nominee for his guest role in an episode of Jordan Peele’s reboot of “The Twilight Zone,” as well as his lead role in the Hulu limited series “Welcome to Chippendales.

Less than a year after Rolling Stone’s investigation into former RuPaul’s Drag Race star Shangela uncovered sexual assault allegations from five accusers — along with a separate civil lawsuit settlement — the celebrity drag performer is facing their second sexual assault lawsuit.

Eric Poff, 35, who performed under adult film pseudonym Dakota Payne, filed a civil lawsuit against Darius Jeremy (“DJ”) Pierce, 44, in New York’s Supreme Court, according to documents obtained by Rolling Stone. Poff alleged Pierce sexually assaulted him while the two worked together on the revenge comedy film Hurricane...

Kristen Stewartis about to get stoned. The actress and producer has co-written a wild stoner buddy comedy with her fiancée, the actress and writer Dylan Meyer, called The Wrong Girls. Better yet? The film is already in production in Los Angeles — making it one of the first independent films to begin shooting in LA since the catastrophic wildfires struck the city. Meyer is directing the film, which will also star Alia Shawkat and Seth Rogen.

The multi-hyphenated Stewart recently spoke with IndieWire about bringing the project to life, and it sounds like an episode of Broad City writ large (which is a huge compliment coming from this particular writer). According to Iw's reporting, the supporting cast will also feature the comedic talents of Kumail Nanjiani, Lakeith Stanfield, Zack Fox, and Tony Hale. When speaking about the project, Stewart asserted her enthusiasm for the project, noting that she is "doing backflips" about it going into production,...

D’Arcy Carden is going from the Bad Place to the Worse Place.

The Emmy Award-nominated actress has been tapped to guest-star in the upcoming sixth and final season of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, according to The Hollywood Reporter, which adds that her appearance has already been filmed.

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In addition to her breakout role as The Good Place‘s Janet, Carden has...

Cynthia Erivo is wicked good, and GLAAD knows it.

The advocacy group said Wednesday that the Wicked star will receive its Stephen F. Kolzak Award, which is presented to a LGBTQ media professional who has made a significant difference in raising visibility and promoting acceptance of LGBTQ people and issues. The singer, actor and force for equity and inclusion will be lauded at the 36th annual GLAAD Media Awards on March 27 in Los Angeles.

Erivo’s much-honored career includes a Tony, Grammy and Daytime Emmy for 2016’s The Color Purple to go with a Primetime Emmy nomination and three Oscar noms. She is vying again in this year’s stacked Best Actress Oscar race for Wicked, and reprises her Elphaba role in the upcoming bookender Wicked: For Good, which hits theaters November 21.

Related: Breaking Baz: ‘Wicked’s Jon M. Chu On Unlocking The Musical For The Big Screen And How...

With Broad City in their rearview, Ilana Glazer is plotting their return to television.

The Emmy winner recently revealed that they’re developing a series with nods to Sex and the City, which they said will focus on the “woman and gay guy friendship.”

“I’m writing a show right now. I’m doing a rewrite actually of this draft right now,” they said on the Dinner’s on Me podcast. “It’s like Sex and the City with two women and two gay guys. ‘Cause the woman and gay guy friendship is a big deal.

“My first best friend is my brother, [who is a] gay guy. All of my best friends growing up are gay boys. I want it to be them,” added Glazer.

After launching the show as a web series from 2009-2011, Broad City caught the eye of executive producer Amy Poehler and landed a five-season run on Comedy Central...

Ilana Glazer is back to writing TV — and this time, they are looking to make “Sex and the City” more queer.

Glazer, who uses she/they pronouns, said during the “Dinner’s On Me” podcast that they are returning to TV six years after wrapping “Broad City.” The beloved Comedy Central series concluded in 2019.

“I’m writing a show right now. I’m doing a rewrite actually of this draft right now,” Glazer said. “It’s like ‘Sex and the City’ with two women and two gay guys. ‘Cause the woman and gay guy friendship is a big deal.”

Glazer continued, “My first best friend is my brother, [who is a] gay guy. All of my best friends growing up are gay boys. I want it to be them.”

Glazer co-created the acclaimed comedy “Broad City” with Abbi Jacobson. Glazer recently said during NPR’s “Wild Card with Rachel Martin” podcast that the...

Exclusive: Mark Consuelos has joined the cast of Scream 7 from Spyglass and Paramount Pictures.

Details regarding the film’s plot and who Consuelos will play are under wraps.

He joins the previously announced legacy cast members Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox as well as Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown, alongside newcomers Isabel May, Celeste O’Connor, Asa Germann, Mckenna Grace, Sam Rechner, Anna Camp and Joel McHale.

Franchise creator Kevin Williamson is directing with Guy Busick (2022’s Scream and Scream VI) writing. Project X Entertainment’s James Vanderbilt, William Sherak and Paul Neinstein (2022’s Scream and Scream VI) are producing.

The long-running horror franchise previously generated four feature films including Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997), Scream 3 (2000) and Scream 4 (2011), directed by the late Wes Craven. It relaunched with the fifth installment, Scream, in 2022. The latest outing, Scream VI, released theatrically...

When one thinks of "experimental, groundbreaking television," they're probably not going to jump straight to the sitcom "Frasier," itself a spin-off of the Boston bar-based workplace sitcom "Cheers." They would be wrong, however, as "Frasier" was significantly more subversive than modern audiences give it credit for, with the writers aiming to create an "anti-'Seinfeld.'" The show turned sitcom tropes on their head with every opportunity, eschewing musical cues and establishing shots that have become a part of the sitcom audiovisual language, and, in one particularly adventurous episode, even played with the idea of multiple timelines.

Though it wouldn't go as far as introducing the concept of the multiverse à la the "Community" episode "Remedial Chaos Theory," the season 8 "Frasier" episode "Sliding Frasiers" showed audiences how the smallest of changes could completely change the course of an evening. Mental health specialist and radio host Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) tries to...

Universal and Blumhouse’s “Wolf Man” reboot and the Keke Palmer-led comedy “One of Them Days” will contend for the top slot on box office charts over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.

Regardless of which lands in first, neither are expected to break out in what’s shaping up to be another quiet weekend for North American cinemas. “Wolf Man” is poised to open to $17 million to $21 million from 3,300 venues over the four-day frame, while “One of Them Days” looks to collect $8 million to $13 million from 2,650 theaters between Friday and Monday.

Universal and Sony each canceled the premieres of “Wolf Man” and “One of Them Days” due to the fires and extreme winds in Los Angeles. In terms of moviegoing, though, attendance doesn’t appear to be affected by the devastating wildfires that continued to ravage though parts of Los Angeles, one of the biggest theatrical markets in the country.

If the only stand-up comedy specials you’d ever watched came out in 2024, you might think there are only two kinds: ones that are about being a parent, and ones that are about never being a parent. Are you the kind of comic who’s figured out how to talk about your kids without seeming like you just walked out of a Jim Belushi sitcom, or the kind who’s had to defend your choice not to continue your family name? You have to decide, dammit, Deciiiiiiiide.

If you haven’t checked in with Ilana Glazer in a while, you might be surprised and possibly even a little alarmed to learn that they’ve ended up on the parent side of the divide. But the most astonishing trick in their new special, Human Magic — considering that it opens with a joke about sleep deprivation causing them cognitive decline — is how...

Wendi McLendon-Covey is a very funny woman. That’s a statement backed up by facts. She starred as Beverly in ABC’s “The Goldbergs” for 10 seasons — a runtime that seems downright shocking in an era dominated by two to three season hits — and has starred in every kind of buzzy comedy from mainstream blockbusters like “Bridesmaids” to ambitious critical darlings like “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.” This is all to say that McLendon-Covey knows comedy.

And right now she’s frustrated by it.

“I want to choose my words carefully. I’m an enthusiastic TV watcher and I love comedies. But can we take big swings again?” McLendon-Covey asked TheWrap. “Audiences are getting bored, and they are way more sophisticated than we think they are.”

McLendon-Covey cited Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s 2009 Comedy Central show “Broad City” as one of the “top five funniest things I’ve ever seen.

Thanks to the success of the beloved Comedy Central series, Broad City, Abbi Jacobson is widely known as a comedic force in film and television. But, as of late, she’s busy uniting her comedy skillset with more dramatic performance opportunities, and the power of her ability to do both is undeniable. After soaring in the canceled-too-soon Prime Video series, A League of Their Own, Jacobson joins the ensemble of yet another brilliant comedy and drama combo, Netflix’s No Good Deed.

More than five years later, Ilana Glazer is happy about where Broad City ended.

The Emmy winner recently explained why her and Abbi Jacobson‘s Comedy Central series, which was developed from their web series of the same name, ended after five seasons in 2019 despite the opportunity to continue.

“Broad City was like a big [deal],” she explained on NPR’s Wild Card podcast. “We had signed our contract of seven seasons and then, we both came to it, Abbi and I. And Comedy Central was like, ‘Huh?’ We were like ambivalent and unsure, but I think that’s something I would say is elegant about me knowing when things are at their end.”

Glazer added, “And like being able to trust that I am generative beyond this moment, whether it’s a creative project or anything, you know, but I am secure that I will keep generating new layers and do without thinking.

Liz Feldman is back with a new series called “No Good Deed,” and just as she did in her Netflix series “Dead to Me,” she’s set up a pretty good mystery.

Now streaming on Netflix, the show centers on Paul and Lydia, who are trying to sell their very popular and desired home. For them, it’s become haunted after their son was killed there three years earlier.

His death is labeled a casualty of a home invasion, but nothing is quite what it seems on this one. And there are plenty of potential suspects in and around the neighborhood.

Here are the faces you’ll need to know.

Netflix Lydia Morgan (Lisa Kudrow)

Lydia Morgan is a renowned pianist, but after her son is killed, she can’t keep her hands from shaking and temporarily loses her ability to play. She’s brought to life by “Friends” and “Time Bandits” star Lisa Kudrow.

In a candid interview on NPR’s “Wild Card with Rachel Martin,” Ilana Glazer described the evolution of “Broad City,” the smash Comedy Central series that accurately depicted young adult life in New York City. The sitcom ran for five seasons from 2014 to 2019, while being initially planned for seven.

Glazer, who co-created the sitcom with Abbi Jacobson, stated that they originally signed a contract for a lengthier run. However, both creators were unsure about continuing, prompting a choice that startled Comedy Central. “We were both ambivalent and unsure,” Glazer admitted, reflecting on their decision to conclude the event earlier than planned.

The choice to end “Broad City” was not easy. Glazer defined it as an “elegant” moment in which a creative undertaking comes to a natural completion. “I am confident that I will continue to generate new layers and act without thinking,” she stated, emphasizing the need to know when to move on.

Ilana Glazer is revealing there could have been more “Broad City.”

The series star, who co-created the acclaimed comedy alongside Abbi Jacobson, said during NPR’s “Wild Card with Rachel Martin” podcast that the hit Comedy Central show was supposed to air for seven seasons. “Broad City” first began as a web series in 2009 before landing a five-season run on Comedy Central starting in 2014. The show concluded in 2019.

“‘Broad City’ was like a big [deal]. We had signed our contract of seven seasons and then, we both came to it, Abbi and I. And Comedy Central was like, ‘Huh?'” Glazer, who uses they/she pronouns, said. “We were like ambivalent and unsure, but I think that’s something I would say is elegant about me knowing when things are at their end.”

Glazer continued, “And like being able to trust that I am generative beyond this moment, whether it’s a creative project or anything,...

90 Day Fiancé couple Andrei Castravet and Elizabeth “Libby” Potthast have some unique social media content featuring skits that seem to getting mixed reactions from the show’s fans. Andrei from Moldova had moved to Dublin for work when Libby connected with him on a dating app. Andrei came to the U.S. on a K-1 visa in 2017. Andrei’s dominating personality and harsh language rubbed fans the wrong way and earned him a bad reputation since his debut in 90 Day Fiancé season 5.

Over time, fans have warmed up to Libby and Andrei, but they still have a fair share of critics on the internet. Andrei is not afraid of calling out the “trolls” that show up on their pages. Andrei's called his haters cowards and thinks they are bullies even though Andrei has been a menace towards his own in-laws on the show. Some of his on-screen behavior...

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The Sex Lives of College Girls is a teen comedy-drama series created by Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble. The Max series follows four young women as they begin their freshmen years as roommates at the Essex College in Vermont. It revolves around their day-to-day lives, from their love lives to their struggles with adulthood. The Sex Lives of College Girls stars Pauline Chalamet, Amrit Kaur, Reneé Rapp, Alyah Chanelle Scott, Gavin Leatherwood, Christopher Meyer, Ilia Isorelýs Paulino, and Renika Williams. So, if you loved the friendships, coming-of-age elements, hilarious comedy, and compelling characters in The Sex Lives of College Girls, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Sex Education is a British teen comedy-drama series created by Laurie Nunn. The Netflix series follows Otis Milburn, a student at Moordale Secondary...

Although Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson‘s Broad City characters took a flight to Israel, they never quite made the birthright trip they imagined.

Amid the country’s ongoing conflict with Palestine, Glazer recalled that she and Jacobson “were actually going to film in Israel” before deciding to “pull the plug” at the last minute, detailing what would have happened in the hour-long Season 3 finale of their Comedy Central series.

“There was violence happening between Israelis and Palestinians,” she explained to The Daily Beast. “And I don’t think either one of us had taken our journey into understanding the situation there to the degree that we do now, but it was just a bad vibe. And we were promised all of this army protection, you can film and there will be soldiers there with guns, and we were like, wait, what are we doing? We have to fully pull the plug.

Exclusive: Arturo Castro (Road House) will star alongside John Cena in Apple’s live-action Matchbox film, inspired by Mattel’s iconic die-cast toy vehicle line, from Skydance and Mattel Films.

Character details are being kept in the toy chest. Castro joins an expanding cast that also includes Jessica Biel and Sam Richardson.

Sam Hargrave (Extraction franchise) is directing from a script by David Coggeshall and Jonathan Tropper. Producers include Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger, and Robbie Brenner for Mattel Films, along with Jules Daly.

The Matchbox brand was invented in 1953 by automotive enthusiast Jack Odell to solve a challenge for his daughter, who was allowed to take a toy to school only if it was small enough to fit in a matchbox. When his daughter’s school friends, too, began clamoring for a “matchbox car,” an enduring brand was born. The high standards of authenticity for...

Exclusive: Oscar-winning company Caviar has rounded out the cast of Joey Power’s romantic comedy, Love Language with Chloe Fineman (Saturday Night Live), comedian and podcaster Bobbi Althoff (The Really Good Podcast), Morgan Jay (St. Denis Medical), Stephen Schneider (Broad City), Dan Perrault (American Vandal), Zach Zucker (Sweethearts), Christian Pierce (The Real Bros of Simi Valley) Marchánt Davis (Reality), and Daniel David Stewart (For All Mankind) rounding out the cast.

They join previously-announced Chloë Grace Moretz, Anthony Ramos, Manny Jacinto, Isabel May, Lukas Gage, and Billie Lourd in the production, which is currently shooting in Chicago, Illinois.

Plot details are under wraps. The movie is produced by Bert Hamelinck and Allison Hironaka for Caviar, Colin Jost and Jeff Grosvenor for No Notes Productions and Ari Lubet for 3 Arts Entertainment. EPs are Michael Sagol of Caviar and Tyson Bidner. Caviar has also arranged the financing of the production. CAA Media Finance is repping the U.

Exclusive: In a bidding situation, HBO has landed one of the highest profile comedy packages to hit the marketplace in awhile. Titled Kansas City Star, the half-hour project is headlined and executive produced by Kaley Cuoco and created and executive produced by the Hacks trio of Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky, sources tell Deadline.

Deals are still being finalized but the comedy is expected to get a series order, I hear. Warner Bros. Television, where Cuoco and her Yes, Norman banner have a producing deal and Aniello & Downs as well as Statsky are under overall deals, is the studio.

Details about Kansas City Star are sketchy but it is described by sources as a comedy with heart starring Cuoco as a semi-famous actress who returns to her hometown to work with a regional theater troupe. Reps for HBO and Wbtv declined comment.

Hulu is beefing up its comedy slate with a new project to be led by multiple Emmy-nominated actress, Connie Britton. The streamer has just issued the green light to a pilot for a comedy series titled, Phony. In addition to starring, Britton will also serve as an executive producer. The series will be written, directed and executive produced by Nick Paley who's best recognized for his work on the critically acclaimed independent stop-motion film, Marcel with the Shoes On. as well as directing Comedy Central's Broad City.

Hulu has given out a pilot order to Nick Paley’s comedy “Phony” with Connie Britton now set for a lead role, Variety has learned.

The pilot is described as a coming-of-age mystery. The official logline states that it follows “a teenager who wakes up in the hospital after a car accident to discover his mom (Britton) — his only parent and his best friend — appears to have been replaced by an impostor.”

Britton’s character is named Ellen, who is described as “a single mom to Sonny and the principal of his high school.”

The project was originally set for development at Hulu in 2022. Paley serves as writer, executive producer, and director on the pilot. Paley most recently co-wrote the popular indie film “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” and previously served as a director on “Broad City” at Comedy Central.

Britton will executive produce in addition to starring. Charlie Alderman...

Hulu has greenlighted Phony, a comedy pilot starring and executive produced by Connie Britton, from Drew Goddard’s Goddard Textiles and 20th Television.

Written, directed and executive produced by Nick Paley (Marcel The Shell With Shoes On), Phony is a comedic coming-of-age mystery about a teenager, Sonny, who wakes up in the hospital after a car accident to discover his mom — his only parent and his best friend — appears to have been replaced by an impostor.

Britton will play Sonny’s single mom Ellen and the principal of his high school.

The pilot brings Britton back to her comedy roots — she started her career with an arc on Ellen before landing a lead role opposite Michael J. Fox on Spin City.

Britton and Paley executive produce Phony alongside Charlie Alderman of Charlie’s Production Company and Drew Goddard and Sarah Esberg via Goddard Textiles. Goddard Textiles’ Andrea Massaro is a producer.

Paramount’s Republic Pictures has acquired global rights to Jason Biggs’ directorial debut feature, the tentatively titled action-comedy “Getaway.”

“Getaway,” in which the “American Pie” actor also stars, centers on a hapless husband who stages a home invasion during a romantic getaway weekend in a desperate attempt to save his marriage, only for plan to go very wrong.

The cast includes Meaghan Rath (“Hawaii Five-0”), Arturo Castro (“Broad City”), Justin H. Min (“The Umbrella Academy”) and Anna Konkle (“Pen15”).

Currently in post production, “Getaway” was written by Jamie Napoli and Joshua Paul Johnson and produced by Motion Picture Corporation of America CEO Brad Krevoy, Charles Cohen, Jimmy Philémond-Montout, David Anselmo and executive produced by Mpca’s Amy Krell.

The latest acquisition is among a slew of new titles the label has acquired in recent months.

‘September 5’

Republic Pictures’ “September 5,” Tim Fehlbaum’s news crew thriller revolving around the 1972 Olympics hostage crisis,...

Exclusive: Ahead of the release of his Paramount holiday comedy Dear Santa, starring Jack Black, Bobby Farrelly has found his next project in Sporkinfeesten, a “finding your roots” style family vacation comedy loosely inspired by true events, which has landed at Amazon MGM Studios.

Farrelly will work from a hot spec by Aaron and Will Eisenberg, which the studio recently acquired, with Cobra Kai‘s Counterbalance Entertainment producing. Further plot details are under wraps.

Aaron Eisenberg and Will Eisenberg

Prior to his work on Dear Santa, which has not yet announced a release date, Farrelly directed the Special Olympics dramedy Champions, a remake of the 2018 Spanish film for Focus Features, starring Woody Harrelson and Kaitlin Olson. Along with his brother Peter, he’s best known for iconic comedies like Dumb & Dumber and There’s Something About Mary, though he’s also worked on hit shows like Loudermilk and Trailer Park Boys,...

Exclusive: Jax Media, an Imagine Entertainment company, is shutting down its development operations. I hear the announcement was made during a staff meeting yesterday. Moving forward, all development will be consolidated and run through Imagine Television. Jax’s development team will wind down by year’s end when its executives, led by Jax Head of TV Dave Binegar, who joined a year ago, and UK Creative Director Katie Gahamire, who came on board in April, will depart.

The move signals Jax reverting to its original core business as a production services company. That will continue under new head of production Yolanda T. Cochran who was just hired for the role, replacing Jake Fuller who stepped down to focus on independent production, mostly sports-related.

Also staying on are Hussain Casey-Ahmed, who joined in April and runs production in the UK, as well as John Nemeth and Morgan Howard, who oversee production in New York.

Finally getting tired of rewatching Cat Cohen‘s Netflix special The Twist … ? She’s Gorgeous over and over and over again? Don’t worry, Cohen has a plan for that. The comedian will be releasing her debut album Overdressed on Nov. 14 — and it contains both classic pop sounds and Cohen’s signature comedy blend of both begging for attention and railing about the internet’s obsession with astrology and party photos.

“I’ve loved doing the stand-up cabaret thing for a long time, but I’ve always wanted to write...

Sony has earned a stellar reputation in recent years for producing some of the most compelling projects, and it continues to expand its creative horizons. With hits like The Boys and Cobra Kai under its belt, Sony has established itself as a powerhouse in the entertainment industry, and now, the studio is bolstering its behind-the-scenes talent by signing first-look deals with nine up-and-coming comedy writers: Scott Aukerman, Karen Chee, Chris Garcia, Julie Klausner, Chris Gethard, Lisa Gilroy, Lacey Jeka, Shaun Diston, and Alok Vaid-Menon. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the writers will help develop new projects and collaborate with existing creative minds at Sony.

Lauren Stein, head of creative at Sony Pictures TV, and Colin Davis, executive vice president of comedy development, have meticulously curated this new wave of talent with the intent of bringing more diversity in style and substance to Sonys comedy output. Stein also emphasized that the...

Exclusive: Arturo Castro has been cast in the 20th Century feature Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, a buddy action comedy set in the criminal underworld from writer and director BenDavid Grabinsk.

He joins Vince Vaughn, James Marsden, Eiza Gonzalez and Jimmy Tatro as part of the ensemble playing Tatro’s friend. Character names and descriptions have yet to be revealed.

Deadline first reported in May that 20th Century landed the project following a heated bidding war. Andrew Lazar is producing.

Castro’s breakout role was portraying Jaime in the Comedy Central series Broad City which ran for five seasons. He followed that up with the comedy sketch series Alternatino for Comedy Central which created, executive produced and starred in.

Most recently, he starred in Mark Mylod’s The Menu for Searchlight, produced by Adam McKay; Amazon’s Road House, a remake of the 1989 film opposite Jake Gyllenhaal...

Catherine Cohen has already appeared on “Girls5eva,” “What We Do in the Shadows,” “Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens,” “Broad City,” and “Search Party,” but it turns out no other show can really top the “good vibes” from Hulu’s beloved Emmy winner “Only Murders in the Building.”

Cohen stars in Season 4 of the whodunit series that centers on neighbors-turned-podcasters Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) as they solve the pile-up of murder cases that seem to follow them everywhere…including during a bicoastal stint as their podcast is adapted into a film.

While Eugene Levy, Zach Galifianakis, and Eva Longoria star as versions of themselves cast in the film adaptation of the podcast, Cohen and Siena Werber play a directing duo helming the movie. “Pachinko” alum Jin Ha is the screenwriter, with Molly Shannon as the producer setting the whole thing in motion.

The “Scream 3...

Exclusive: Jason Biggs (American Pie franchise) is making his directorial debut on Getaway, an action comedy, in which he also stars.

Others on board for roles opposite Biggs include Meaghan Rath (Hawaii Five-0), Arturo Castro (Broad City), Justin H. Min (The Umbrella Academy) and Anna Konkle (PEN15).

Currently in production in Ontario, Canada, Getaway centers on Kevin Stanwell (Biggs), an actor famous for being the mascot for erectile dysfunction ads. With his marriage on the rocks, he attempts to salvage the relationship with his wife Suzie (Rath) by planning a trip for them to the Adirondacks. Kevin recruits an actor friend, Ernie Guerra (Castro), to stage a home invasion to make Kevin look like a hero, but when the plan goes awry, the couple find themselves caught up in a murder investigation.

Jamie Napoli and Joshua Paul Johnson scripted the project, which hails from Motion Picture Corporation of America. Mpca CEO Brad Krevoy,...

Emmy-winning Hacks co-creator Jen Statsky has signed an exclusive, multi-year overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group, her first with the Studio. Financial terms for the deal, which WB describes as “a highly competitive situation”, were not disclosed.

Under the pact, Statsky will develop original series through her First Thought Productions banner for all platforms, including Warner Bros. Discovery’s HBO and Max, external streaming services and the U.S. broadcast networks. Statsky was previously based at Universal Television, where Hacks is produced.

Statsky co-created, with Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs, multiple Emmy-winning Max comedy series Hacks, which has been renewed for a fourth season. Season three is currently nominated for 17 Emmy Awards, with Statsky nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series and Writing for a Comedy Series with Aniello & Downs.

Statsky previously worked on NBC’s The Good Place throughout its four-season run. She was a co-executive producer and writer...

Ilana Glazer is ready to share more of her comedy with the world, this time on Hulu.

The “Broad City” and “Babes” actress will debut “Human Magic” on Dec. 20. This will be her second stand-up special after “The Planet Is Burning” debuted on Amazon’s Prime Video in January 2020.

Glazer is now the fourth comedian tapped for Hulu’s new Hularious comedy brand, formerly known as Laughing Now, which promises one special a month. Starting in November with Jim Gaffigan, Bill Burr and Roy Wood Jr. are also set to tape upcoming specials for the streamer.

Meanwhile, “Human Magic” was taped in early May at Toronto’s Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre. Jeff Tomsic directed, with Rotten Science and Starrpix producing. It will air internationally on Disney+.

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Ilana Glazer has set a new comedy special titled “Human Magic” at Hulu.

“Human Magic” was taped at the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre in Toronto in May of this year during Glazer’s 48-city tour across the U.S. and Canada. This is their second stand-up special, following “Ilana Glazer: The Planet Is Burning,” which debuted on Amazon Prime Video in 2020 and saw them discuss their “thoughts on homophobes and Nazis, how crappy women’s razors are and what a joke the patriarchy is.”

Glazer is best known for “Broad City,” the Comedy Central series they co-created, co-showran and co-starred in with Abbi Jacobson. After debuting as a webseries, “Broad City” ran on Comedy Central for five seasons. In film, Glazer’s credits include co-writing and starring in Pamela Adlon’s 2024 comedy “Babes” and John Lee’s 2021 horror “False Positive.” They also played roles in “Broad City” executive...

Hulu announced on Tuesday that Human Magic, a new stand-up special from Ilana Glazer, is set to premiere on the streamer on December 20, launching on Disney+ internationally.

The special marks Glazer’s second on the heels of The Planet Is Burning, which premiered on Prime Video in early 2020. She taped it at the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre in Toronto in early May, after touring the hour in every corner of the country, playing 52 shows across 48 cities in the U.S. and Canada.

Jeff Tomsic directed the special, with Rotten Science and Glazer’s Starrpix producing.

An Emmy-nominated comedian, actor, writer and producer, Glazer is coming off of co-writing, producing and starring in Babes, the acclaimed pregnancy comedy directed by Pamela Adlon, which Neon released in May. Best known for co-creating and starring opposite Abbi Jacobson in the hit Comedy Central series Broad City, which ran for five seasons,...

Ilana Glazer is coming out as non-binary.

In a new interview, the 37-year-old Broad City star came out as non-binary and shared how being pregnant with their daughter helped them realize their true identity.

Keep reading to find out more…“Being pregnant on paper was the most female thing I could ever do, but it actually highlighted both the masculine and feminine inside of me,” Ilana told The Independent. “For so long, my masculinity felt like something I had to hide or make a joke of, and my femininity was something that felt like drag.”

Ilana, who now uses the she/they pronouns, and husband David Rooklin welcomed their daughter in 2021.

Ilana went on to explain that there was always an “element of comedy” to their gender, which limited their “genuine personal experience.”

“Then this gift of being pregnant made space for me to be real with myself,” Ilana said.

Comedy creator Ilana Glazer recently opened up about their evolving understanding of gender. In a recent interview, Glazer said their pregnancy experience shed light on both their masculine and feminine sides. This realization has prompted Glazer to use they/she pronouns and feel more authentic in how they present themselves.

Glazer co-created and starred in the Comedy Central series “Broad City” from 2014 to 2019. In the interview, Glazer reflected on how viewers saw feminist themes in the show, which surprised them. Glazer said they “hadn’t even thought about it like that” when learning it was viewed as feminist.

An episode from 2016 featured a cameo from then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during the heated race against Donald Trump. Glazer acknowledged mixed reactions but wanted Clinton to win. While not friends with Clinton, Glazer said she sits “somewhere in the middle” of liking and disliking her as a person.

Comedy is central to Glazer’s work.

With another presidential election coming up, Ilana Glazer is looking back on one of their favorite Broad City guest stars.

The Emmy Award winner recently recalled the mixed reactions to Hillary Clinton‘s 2016 cameo on the Comedy Central series and when they realized “how politically perceived” the show was, which they co-created and co-starred with Abbi Jacobson.

“Oh my god, what a world! Things have changed,” Glazer told The Independent of the episode featuring Clinton. “I mean, I did vote for Hillary Clinton. I did want Hillary Clinton to win over Donald Trump. I don’t think she’s a perfect, flawless person or a perfect flawless politician. I’m not friends with her. I can’t really tell you where she is for me on a spectrum of hate to dislike to like to love—maybe somewhere in the middle as a person? But I really wanted her to win.

Romance It Ends With Us opens in 630 cinemas through Sony at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, pitting lead actress Blake Lively against her husband Ryan Reynolds, whose Deadpool & Wolverine has held top spot for two weekends.

It Ends With Us is adapted by Christy Hall from Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel, about a woman whose connection with a neurosurgeon begins to remind her of her parents’ troubled relationship.

Director Justin Baldoni stars alongside Lively having optioned the book through his Wayfarer Studios in 2019, with Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj and Kevin McKidd also on the cast.

Having broken out in...

Party Down is one of those comedy shows that very few people know about but those who know it, love it and really appreciate the recent revival. The Starz series follows the story of a group of out-of-work actors in Los Angeles who are trying to earn a living by working in a catering company and still hoping to make it big in the industry. Party Down stars Adam Scott, Ken Marino, Lizzy Caplan, Ryan Hansen, Martin Starr, Jane Lynch, and Megan Mullally. So, if you loved the group dynamics, cringe comedy, and a bit of dark humor in Party Down, here are some similar shows you could watch next.

Corporate (Paramount+ & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Comedy Central

Corporate is a dark comedy series created by Pat Bishop, Matt Ingebretson, and Jake Weisman. The Comedy Central series follows the miserable lives of two downtrodden employees as they die a...

After defining goofy millennial aimlessness with her beloved sitcom Broad City, the writer-actor is facing up to motherhood with new film Babes. But don’t worry: she hasn’t grown up too much

Ilana Glazer is trying to think of films about pregnancy and early parenthood that aren’t told from a man’s perspective. “There’s Knocked Up, but that’s about Seth Rogen. And there’s Nine Months, but that’s about Hugh Grant. Three Men and a Baby cracks me up because it’s like, three?!” says the 37-year-old, with comically perfect levels of incredulity (cracking me up in the process).

Glazer – best known as co-creator of the seminal millennial sitcom Broad City – is making a serious point: there are outrageously few movies about birth and babies that centre on the female experience. The comedian’s attempt to rectify this, however, has taken the form of a distinctly unserious film: in fact,...

Exclusive: Comedian Catherine Cohen announced on Tuesday that her new special, Come for Me, is set to premiere globally on Veeps at approximately 5pm Pst on Thursday, October 17.

Part stand-up comedy, part cabaret, Come for Me is billed as an openly glamorous, decidedly horny exploration of what it means to be a woman entering her 30s. Check out a trailer above.

The special is Cohen’s second on the heels of The Twist …? She’s Gorgeous, which premiered on Netflix in 2022. That hour was based on a show performed at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival in 2019, which won her the coveted title of Best Newcomer.

Filmed at the Gramercy Theatre in New York City, her new hour will be free for Veeps All Access subscribers. Cohen wrote and performed it, with Kevin Garcia serving as its director, and Matt Sergent and Patrick Koch producing. Exec producers include Cohen and Cait Taylor,...

Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has boarded international sales for Marie Losier’s documentary feature “Peaches Goes Bananas” ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Days sidebar running alongside the film festival.

For “Peaches Goes Bananas,” Losier followed Merrill Nisker — the trailblazing feminist queer icon, musician and producer known as Peaches — off and on stage. An intimate portrait, the documentary showcases Peaches’ concerts, her bond with her sister Suri and her creative process.

Losier is best known for directing critically lauded documentaries including “The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye,” which won the Teddy Award at the Berlinale in 2011; “Cassandro El Exotico!,” winner of the Cannes Acid section in 2018; and “Felix in Wonderland,” which had its world premiere in Locarno in 2019. Losier’s work has also been celebrated with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2018, where all her films were acquired for the...