The Definitive Guide to Comedy
I’ll confess. I’ve seen Kenny and Keith Lucas individually and together sporadically over the years, but I never could tell you which was which. And watching their first Netflix special, Lucas Brothers: On Drugs, even off drugs, didn’t fix that for me. As I wrote in my review for Decider.com: Identical …
A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on CBS on Dec. 9, 1965. Fifty-one years later, Nickelodeon will debut an animated Christmas special that tells the holiday story from the perspective of the tree. Sort of. Albert stars Saturday Night Live’s Bobby Moynihan as Albert, a tiny Douglas fir tree with dreams of …
This just in. TBS has ordered up a new animated comedy series, Final Space, created by Olan Rogers and produced by Conan O’Brien Conaco with New Form. It’ll launch in 2018. Final Space revolves around an astronaut named Gary and his adorable, planet-destroying friend, Mooncake, as they embark on a quest …
FX had announced last year that it was moving its successful animated comedy, Archer, to FXX in 2016 for its seventh season and pairing it with a new animated series, Cassius and Clay, co-created by Megan Ganz and Archer creator Adam Reed. But Archer‘s FXX premiere remains without a start …
Home for the holidays? Bill Burr’s new animated series for Netflix, F is for Family, will put you in just the right mood while also sending you back to the 1970s. From my review: “F is for Family sneaks up on you and into your heart, much like the first …
The Writers Guild Association has announced nominees for 2015 achievements in writing for TV, and there’s plenty of praise to go around for broadcast networks, cable, and streaming services. Winners will be announced Feb. 13, 2016, in simultaneous ceremonies held on both coasts for WGA East in New York City …
FX Networks is making its big splash today before the TV Critics Association by announcing two new series that expands FX and FXX’s relationships with the creators of long-running critical faves Louie and Archer. Better Things, starring Pamela Adlon, will receive 10 episodes on FX, while Cassius and Clay, an …
Two months after fans and crew of The Simpsons began imagining an animated world of Springfield without the voices of Harry Shearer, it’s all going to be just fine. Shearer, who has voiced Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Kent Brockman, Lenny Leonard, Dr. Hibbert and more since …
Jeff and Some Aliens, a recurring segment on TripTank, has earned its own spin-off, with Comedy Central announcing a 10-episode order of half-hours for 2016. “It would be so weird if this show wasn’t animated,” said Comedy Central’s programming chief, Kent Alterman. “We’d like to beat the trolls to the …
The Three Stooges can never die, and that’s not just written into their plotlines. Forty years after Moe Howard and Larry Fine both died in 1975, the often-violent slapstick antics of Moe, Larry and Curly continue to be revived and reanimated. Just in the past month, The Three Stooges estate …
