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LeBron James may have announced he’s coming home to the Cleveland Cavaliers, but on an upcoming animated episode of TV Land’s Hot In Cleveland, the ladies already imagined life as if the NBA’s King James never left Ohio. The July 30, 2014, episode also features Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler as …
Happy Mondays all around to several comedians thanks to this news from Comedy Central: The network has ordered two new series — Another Period and Idiotsitter— and renewed three others, Inside Amy Schumer, Review and TripTank. Comedy Central President Kent Alterman also announced five original webseries coming out this summer and later this …
One step backward, two bunny hops forward. That’s the Good Friday spin on the cancellation that’s actually a promotion for FOX’s Animation Domination High-Def programming. FOX executives have confirmed that the late-night Saturday block of animated shorts will stop airing new episodes after June 28. Come June 2015, however, ADHD …
Comedy Central announced two new half-hour series coming to the network later in 2014, with the pickups of 10 episodes each for Big Time in Hollywood, FL, and Moonbeam City. The announcements came Friday as the cable network took its turn before the TV Critics Association annual roundup in Pasadena, …
Sure, everyone who loves comedy is talking today about the bold new miniseries farce, The Spoils of Babylon, which debuts tonight on IFC. But if you think that’s bold, then you should have, would have and could have seen something even crazier from the cable network. Like the 1980s soap …
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 …
David Letterman already knows he makes megamillions each year hosting Late Show with David Letterman on CBS. But that wealth hasn’t quite gone to his head in all of the bad ways. Letterman, with friend and writer/illustrator Bruce McCall, have published a new book that satirizes the richest one percent …
Orange and black aren’t just for Halloween or hot new Netflix titles, but also the primary colors of tigers such as Hobbes of “Calvin and Hobbes.” For anyone who grew up with newspapers from 1985 to 1995, Bill Watterson’s comic strip about a boy and his stuffed tiger and their …
Today we’re treated to a newly animated bit from the posthumous Patrice O’Neal album, “Mr. P.” This is his stand-up bit, “Black Women Get You Refunds.” Of course it’s not safe for work. What did you expect? The clip arrives with news of a new digipak version of O’Neal’s other …
Bet you didn’t think your nerd love for Parks and Recreation would come in handy while watching auditions for NBC’s America’s Got Talent, did you? Blink last night and you might have missed Jim Meskimen. Meskimen successfully auditioned on last night’s episode of AGT with impersonations of Robert DeNiro, Robin …
