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Netflix has acquired and will release Hannibal Takes Edinburgh, a feature-length documentary film featuring comedian Hannibal Buress, with a global premiere on Friday! From the Netflix announcement: Filmed over the course of 28 days in August 2013, Hannibal Takes Edinburgh follows Buress as the then up-and-coming comedian performed nightly to packed houses …
It has become more commonplace now in our era of Too Much TV that cable and streaming networks have rewarded promising new series with two-season orders ahead of their premieres, and TBS has just done so today for The Detour. TBS must have liked what it saw when viewers sampled …
Comedians Chelsea Peretti (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Jordan Peele (Key & Peele) got engaged over the holidays, and Booking.com found just the perfect tie-in, booking the couple for a series of new TV ads imagining them planning their wedding and honeymoon. Roll the clips!
DiddyGetHard, the sequel is here! Sean Combs triumphantly walked through the “Diddy” Door to save episode two of season two of The Chris Gethard Show on Fusion, which airs tonight. Gethard famously spent a year in 2010 lobbying for the music mega-producer to appear on his underground talk show at …
Dice is in a bad mood. The world is upside down. Batman vs. Superman? Andrew Dice Clay explains in this stand-up performance on Tuesday’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. His new semi-autobiographical series, Dice, premieres this Sunday on Showtime. Roll the clip!
Irish hypnotist Keith Barry will reprise his role from the British game show, You’re Back in the Room, when Taye Diggs hosts a new American version that goes into production this summer for FOX. “The second I saw this show I knew I needed to be a part of it. …
We’re still a month away from Upfronts when the broadcast networks announce their fall primetime lineups full of new shows and renewals, and FOX just now has pulled the trigger on a 10-episode order for a summer sitcom. Famous will premiere on Sunday, June 12, 2016. It hasn’t been cast …
Nick Griffin was back on Conan on Monday night, or rather, Tuesday morning since the TBS broadcast waited out a thrilling end to March Madness and another sneak-peek of the new TBS road trip comedy, The Detour. Money can’t buy you happiness. “OK, but can I be sad in a …
If you watched any of the Final Four these past couple of nights, then you saw the brand-new TV commercial for Chrysler’s Pacifica starring comedian Jim Gaffigan, his kids, and even a clip of his stand-up in the seat-back monitors. That makes two big national ad campaigns currently running for …
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has poached a top writer/contributor from Late Night with Seth Meyers, announcing Michelle Wolf has joined TDS as a writer and on-air contributor. The hiring happened last week, but Comedy Central waited until after last week’s Upfronts to make the announcement. Wolf …
