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Seth MacFarlane: Genius? If you can convince FOX to reboot Cosmos and teach viewers about space, while also managing to save Family Guy from cancellation, earning a Grammy Award for singing big-band tunes, making a hit out of a talking teddy bear movie, and hosting twice as many Comedy Central …
Four years ago, Harry Shearer took a stand on behalf of his voice cast for The Simpsons as the dominating animated sitcom for FOX. This year, Shearer’s stance in contract negotiations is leaving the 71-year-old on the outside looking in when The Simpsons continues for seasons 27 and 28 without him. …
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 …
The cast of Bob’s Burgers is heading back out on the road for a formal spring tour, with eight dates in eight cities lined up so far in mid-to-late March through the Midwest and Northeast Corridor. The fifth season began earlier this winter on Sunday nights, and FOX just renewed …
Poor Seth Rogen. He’s Jewish and Canadian, which means he doesn’t get to celebrate Thanksgiving. Wait. That’s not right. That cannot be right, can it? Somebody tell Rogen the good news, please! In the meantime, here is an animated short starring and written by Seth Rogen talking about how his …
Bill Burr already has a new stand-up special (I’m Sorry You Feel That Way) coming in December to Netflix. For 2015, Burr’s upping the ante with F is for Family, a six-episode animated series Netflix announced today. It’s created by Burr with Michael Price, and based on Burr’s stand-up, flashing back …
The 18th season of South Park opens Wednesday night with a blitz against the Washington Redskins, and Comedy Central’s dynamic animated creative duo of Matt Stone and Trey Parker had this preview clip at the ready to broadcast during Sunday’s NFL game between Washington and the Philadelphia Eagles. The season premieres Wednesday …
Twenty-five years of The Simpsons has passed before our eyes, and it’s about to happen again — all in a row, all at once. The FXX complete marathon of The Simpsons — complete with The Simpsons Movie airing in sequence of when during the series it arrived in cinemas — …
“Mazel Tina!” That’s an appropriate title for the episode that won Bob’s Burgers its first Emmy Award over the weekend. Harry Shearer, long known but never properly celebrated for his voice work on The Simpsons, also earned his first individual Emmy during the Creative Emmys ceremonies, held separately a week …
