The Definitive Guide to Comedy
FOX has announced its summer programming plans for 2015, which include the return of one game show and debut of another, both of which are hosted by stand-up comedians. Tom Papa will host the new primetime game show, Boom!, that’s based on an Israeli format — it’s a quiz show …
With the series finale wrapped for Parks and Recreation, and at 10:59 p.m. on a Tuesday at that, NBC no longer has any claim on Thursday nights — or any night, really — as Must-See TV for sitcoms. The only network with a successful comedy programming block, as the definition …
Despite proclamations last year that “pilot season” was dead or dying, it’s alive and well as we head into the final week of January 2015. After wrapping up a busy December in development deals, the world of “Maybe See TV” for the broadcast networks and cable channels has heated up. …
The cast of Bob’s Burgers is heading back out on the road for a formal spring tour, with eight dates in eight cities lined up so far in mid-to-late March through the Midwest and Northeast Corridor. The fifth season began earlier this winter on Sunday nights, and FOX just renewed …
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 …
Laughs has earned a reprieve and then some, receiving an additional order for 20 late-night stand-up showcases that air on a group of FOX TV stations late Saturday and/or Sunday nights. It has been airing “remix” episodes with old and new bits the past few Saturdays after already having received …
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then parody is what, again? Well, Steve Hofstetter, your little late-night experiment on FOX — Laughs — has touched a nerve within the comedy community. Particularly over the issue of pay. Or lack thereof. And this weekend, we finally saw someone produce …
Move over, Tosh. Don’t be ridiculous, Ridiculousness. FOX thinks it can trump Tosh.0, Ridiculousness and all of the other comedians-talking-about-epic-fail-video series on cable by starting up its own such mocker talker in primetime on network TV. World’s Funniest Fails will premiere at 8 p.m. ET/PT Friday, Jan. 16, 2015. It’s …
FOX is having such a tough fall already that the network is sending itself back to school, reviving the game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? with host Jeff Foxworthy in time for primetime in 2015. “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? shares so much DNA with …
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 …
