The Definitive Guide to Comedy
It’s been a big 24 hours for cable sitcom renewals, with two newcomers in particular — USA’s Playing House and truTV’s Friends of the People — earning season renewals with a little help from their friends and fans in the digital and On Demand spaces. Season 2 of Playing House …
A generation ago, Billy Hardwick was a professional bowler, ABC was the TV network that aired bowling to a national viewing audience, and AMF were the three big letters in bowling. In 2014, it’s Chris Hardwick’s turn down the alley and AMC is the place to see it. Yes, Chris …
Over the weekend, Sacha Baron Cohen showed up the Brits and Hollywood once more whilst accepting his Charlie Chaplin Award for Excellence In Comedy at the BAFTA L.A. Jaguar Britannia Awards, pretending to kill an elderly woman who had been introduced as a co-star with the late great Chaplin. Salma …
BBC America announced Wednesday that it’s giving Chris Hardwick and his Nerdist colleagues a promotion — a full, regular season of hourlong episodes of The Nerdist comedy variety show for 2013. “As a huge fanboy of nerd culture stuff, we at the Nerdist Podcast gush about the things we love constantly, …
For the one person who still doesn’t understand the sports included in the Summer Olympics — so you’re that person?!? — BBC America has enlisted American comedian Dave Hill to help explain and demonstrate them. Here he is on the parallel bars. And based on the U.S. men’s gymnastics team …
“Do you win anything here?” Cyndi Lauper asks during the second episode of Would You Rather…? with Graham Norton. That’s the main and maybe only thing holding up BBC America’s introduction of comedy panel “game shows” to the States. Filmed in New York City before live studio audiences, Would You Rather…? …
Guess what, America? BBC America liked broadcasting Chris Hardwick’s Nerdist pilot so much they’ve ordered up more of it. Specifically, five additional TV specials: A one-hour Christmas Eve broadcast, plus four more (one hour, three half-hours) to air throughout 2012, “coinciding with big events for the channel,” as BBC America …
Fans of the AMC zombie series, The Walking Dead, will have comedian Chris Hardwick to talk them through its second season this fall — the cable channel announced today that it had ordered a half-hour chat show hosted by him to air following new episodes. Actually, Talking Dead will premiere …
