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Comedy Central has ordered 10 episodes of a new animated series, Legends of Chamberlain Heights, from a veteran of The Simpsons about three high-school freshmen — with two of the boys modeled after and inspired by former real-life UCLA basketball players. The series will debut in 2016. “This show is …
FOX has promoted Golan The Insatiable from its “Animation Domination High-Def” block to become a half-hour primetime series this summer, with the first of six episodes premiering Sunday, May 31, 2015, at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT. As part of the promotion, the network also has recast the main voices, with Rob …
If you missed out on FXX’s #EverySimpsonsEver marathon, or missed watching every episode of The Simpsons the first time it aired, then now you can catch up with any episode, anytime, as FX Networks is unveiling its “Simpsons World” app and experience today. SimpsonsWorld.com asks for authentication this morning, but …
This Thanksgiving, Bill Cosby would like us to give thanks for the family and food before us, and he’d also like us to ponder who in their right mind would look at a turkey and think of it as the centerpiece for a feast. He does so with the animated …
Here’s a switch: A sitcom cancellation and pickup on a new network, all in the same press release. American Dad!, one of Seth MacFarlane’s animated hits for FOX, will end its run there with its 10th season this fall on Sunday nights — then move over to TBS in 2014 …
And the winner of the first new sitcom to join the ranks of the new FXX programming lineup is…Chozen. FXX, which debuts in September as a younger, hipper offshoot of FX, ordered the animated comedy to series on Thursday. Chozen comes from Grant Dekernion, who’ll write, executive produce and star as …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… More NYC and Tri-State area comedy shows lining up to raise money to help victims of post-tropical storm Sandy in Staten Island, Long Island and New Jersey. Louis CK will perform Nov. 17 on Staten Island. Eugene Mirman will host a comedy benefit …
CMT is staying in business with the “Blue Collar Comedy” crew…and Lisa Lampanelli? That’s what happened when the Country Music Television channel green-lighted a 13-episode order for the animated sitcom, Bounty Hunters, which follows Larry the Cable Guy, Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Lampanelli as animated versions of themselves who …
