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Cristela Alonzo couldn’t help noticing, and stopping to notice, the massive Netflix billboards promoting her first stand-up hour for the streaming platform, Cristela Alonzo: Lower Classy, which premiered today. Just as I couldn’t help myself from telling Alonzo last week how I happened to notice Whole Foods in Austin was hiring …
The first season of Cristela on ABC ended Friday night. Will there be more than 22 episodes to follow come fall? That’ll be determined in May when the networks announce their 2015-2016 primetime schedules to advertisers at the annual Upfronts. Star stand-up Cristela Alonzo will appear on ABC this week …
Cristela Alonzo has a bone to pick with the folks at Lululemon, because they don’t seem to make workout clothes for her bones to fit in, which means she has to work out extra just to afford their workout clothes! As Alonzo explained on Monday’s Conan, perhaps the arguments we …
Amid all of the carnage of cancelled rookie sitcoms this fall, finally some good news, and it’s for a stand-up comedian sitcom, as ABC has granted Cristela Alonzo’s Cristela a full-season order. Congrats to all of our #Cristela cast and crew for a full-season pickup! https://t.co/bdtMcW3vQl pic.twitter.com/kWdImLa7yB — Cristela (@CristelaABC) …
Erik Rivera may not have turned his development deal last year with Eva Longoria into a network TV sitcom, but his relationship with Jennifer Lopez did net him his first hourlong stand-up special. Erik Rivera: I’m No Expert premieres Saturday on NUVOtv. No, not that kind of relationship. Rivera is …
Pilot season doesn’t always make sense, and certainly doesn’t feel like it’s under your control, whether you’re an actor, writer, director or producer. Three months ago, stand-up comedian Cristela Alonzo told The Comic’s Comic that her pilot, based on her own life experiences, “isn’t going forward at ABC for now.” …
