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Childish Gambino and Community fans rejoice, as Donald Glover will return to TV in 2016 in a new role he created as a young rapper in Atlanta. Speaking of which… FX has ordered 10 half-hour episodes of Atlanta. “Atlanta draws on Donald’s considerable talents as a musician, actor and writer …
You’ll hear a lot in the trades and the trade winds from now through pilot season, which starts in earnest in January, all the way up to the cable Upfronts in the spring and the broadcast network Upfronts in May — when TV programmers present their new and returning lineups …
Here’s a #TBT for you from July 2010, when Donald Glover ventured to Montreal to receive a rising comedy star award from Just For Laughs — he also performed as his hip-hop alter ego, Childish Gambino, both at the official JFL party as well as at Doug Stanhope’s “car wash” …
The artist formerly known as Donald Glover made an appearance Tuesday night on The Arsenio Hall Show in his sleepwear and slippers, performing one of his new songs (“Shadows”) and chatting with Arsenio beforehand. Arsenio introduced Glover as Childish Gambino and waited for the audience to figure it out. Just …
Donald Glover is an actor (currently and most notably, on NBC’s Community, which he is only partially on for the upcoming season), a writer, a comedian and a rapper. For the latter, he has adopted a nom de plume or nom de rap of Childish Gambino. And for his latest album, “because …
A couple of years ago, you crazy kids went wild on Facebook with the notion that Betty White host Saturday Night Live at the tender age of 88. Sounded great, didn’t it? NBC and SNL listened, booking her for Mother’s Day weekend of 2010 and surrounding her with past SNL …
Eddie Murphy may have had a hit song back in the day with “Party All the Time” and even hosted the MTV Video Music Awards in 1985, too — but Murphy couldn’t accomplish what Community’s Donald Glover already has in his spare time away from comedy: Score his own VMA …
NBC let 30 Rock go meta last night, as its second time doing double-duty live shows (one for the Eastern and Central time zones, and one for the West Coast) found the fake show-within-a-show debating the merits of continuing with live shows for TGS. That allowed Kenneth the NBC Page …
Perhaps comedians of the 21st Century have it all wrong, playing by the old rules: Perform stand-up comedy, receive development deal, pitch sitcom based on life, repeat. Because Donald Glover has flipped the script completely. Before he has ever done a single stand-up set in late-night TV, he has written …
See what this super fan of Donald Glover has done? Done gone and taken one of Glover’s rap tunes as Childish Gambino, “Freaks and Geeks,” and made a music video for it using only the most appropriate clips from Glover’s NBC sitcom, Community. Yep. Pretty cool. Note: Lyrics are NSFW. …
