The Definitive Guide to Comedy
It’s a big month for past, present and future fans of FOX’s sketch comedy show, In Living Color, as the network plans to celebrate the anniversary of its star-making series and also launch a new edition to hopefully do the same for today’s young comedic actors. Who is FOX and host, …
After years of wishing it were so, it’s now a reality. Arrested Development, the critically-acclaimed and Emmy-winning but low-rated comedy that aired for three seasons on FOX from 2003-2006, will return with a new season of episodes — but only online for subscribers of Netflix. As star Jason Bateman wrote …
That was fast. A couple of days after we learned how much cash FOX and News Corp. could bank by canceling The Simpsons, and just hours after voice actor Harry Shearer published his own statement willing to negotiate, the entire cast and the show agreed to a new two-year deal …
Harry Shearer, who has provided many voices for The Simpsons over its 23 seasons — including Charles Montgomery Burns, Ned Flanders, and Principal Skinner, among others — has released this statement regarding tense negotiations over pay cuts and the future of the series. It reads as follows: For many years …
Could this be the final season of The Simpsons? The animated FOX sitcom, currently in its 23rd season, finds itself in another tough round of salary negotiations with its voice actors, with 20th Century Fox Television asking the cast to take a 45% pay cut to renew their contracts. That’s from …
The full cast of Arrested Development reunited Sunday for the first time since FOX cancelled the critically beloved sitcom five years ago — and revealed a bombshell development. While everyone expected to hear news about a long-rumored AD movie, they heard creator Mitchell Hurwitz instead say that the movie would …
This is not the Arrested Development movie post you were looking for, but you can bet somebody will bring it up when the cast reunites in person for the New Yorker Festival next month. Nancy Franklin will moderate an exclusive “Bluth family reunion” panel on Oct. 2, 2011, featuring the creator …
Reading the TV tea leaves seems fairly simple once you read enough of them, because television executives tend to follow certain predictable patterns. Such as: If you hype a new sketch comedy series featuring a relative unknown comedian but backed by a famous TV/movie comedic actor, tell us you’re going …
Aug. 14 is an odd date to launch a sketch TV show, let alone one revolving around only one sketch player, but that’s what FOX has decided to do with In The Flow with Affion Crockett, starring one Affion Crockettt as a variety of characters both known and unknown. It …
Here’s the follow-up today from that incident last month in which activist/comedian Jonathan May-Bowles interrupted the Parliamentary investigation of Rupert Murdoch by tossing a whipped cream pie in his face. The AP report: PREVIOUSLY: Analysis of this comedian’s actions toward Murdoch.
