The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The broadcast networks have unveiled their new primetime schedules for fall 2019. Here are trailers for the new new sitcoms premiering this fall, in order of time slot Sunday-Saturday. FOX Sundays at 8:30 ET/PT: Bless the Harts CBS Mondays at 8:30 ET/PT: Bob <3 Abishola ABC Tuesdays at 9:30 ET/PT: …
Jimmy Kimmel, 51, had to wonder in his early tenure hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live whether ABC might replace him with Nightline, Conan O’Brien, or anything else. Kimmel need worry no more. ABC announced a three-year contract extension with him, keeping JKL on the air through its 20th season. Kimmel has …
There’s no escaping South Park. Or is there? The Comedy Central animated fixture, closing in on 22 years on the air, opens its first-ever escape room today in Chicago. Actually Oakbrook. South Park‘s South Park: Cartman’s Escape Room will also pop up in New York, Denver, Los Angeles and other …
Tim Conway, simply one of the funniest individuals to perform on television, has died after a long illness. Conway was 85. Born in 1933 outside of Cleveland, Thomas Daniel “Tim” Conway began his career as a radio disc jockey at Bowling Green University, where he studied in the 1950s before …
Happy Birthday to Kenan Thompson! Thompson, 41 today and the longest-tenured cast member ever on Saturday Night Live, will add a primetime sitcom to his resume. NBC has ordered The Kenan Show. He began his TV career as a teenager with Nickelodeon’s sketch comedy series, All That. Thompson joined SNL …
Determined to learn from past mistakes, Comedy Central has launched a new Comedy Central Productions unit to develop new and existing in-house talent. As Jon Stewart departed The Daily Show, the cable network watched as many of his potential successors also fled, from John Oliver (HBO), Stephen Colbert (CBS), Samantha …
With the departure of hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory this month, CBS is looking far and wide for new comedies to break through this fall. So congrats to comedians Billy Gardell, Natasha Leggero, Sabrina Jalees, Rob Corddry, Michaela Watkins and more for joining the Eye Network’s new primetime lineup! …
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt wrapped its fourth and final season this January on Netflix, but the streaming giant isn’t ready to say goodbye once and for all just yet. An interactive special is forthcoming, ordered up for 2020. The comedy series stars Ellie Kemper, Tituss Burgess, Jane Krakowski, and Carol Kane. …
The lawsuit by a San Diego man claiming Conan O’Brien’s TBS late-night show stole jokes from his Twitter for Conan’s monologue has settled out of court, shortly before going to trial. O’Brien wrote about the decision to settle in an essay today in Variety, saying in part: “I decided to …
truTV is continuing to add new series from stand-up comedians, announcing two new orders today: This Functional Family from comedian Jo Koy (truTV’s first animated series), and Game Changers from Clayton English and Noah Gardenswartz. Koy’s This Functional Family gets a 10-episode order, expected to premiere in 2020. At the …
