Search Party moves to HBO Max for seasons 3-4
by HBO Max announced Search Party will move from TBS to the new streaming platform (both owned by WarnerMedia) when it launches in spring 2020. From the press release: …
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TBS announces live programming as part of 2017 New York Comedy Festival
In its first year as the TV partner for the New York Comedy Festival (NYCF), TBS will create the TBS Comedy HUB inside the new …
Big Hearts, Big Laughs in Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon’s cinematic love story, “The Big Sick”
Not everything needs to be a period piece. On the small screen, both Marc Maron and Pete Holmes brought their recent pasts into present-day so …
Watch the trailer for “The Big Sick” based on Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon’s real life love
The Big Sick, written by Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, is based on the beginnings of their real-life romance a decade ago, but updated …
Netflix goes back to the future, orders Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
Getting the gang back together proved so much fun last year, why not do it all again? That’s the spirit! Netflix announced today that Wet …
David Wain and Michael Showalter break “The Second Sound Barrier”
Many movies will debut at film festivals such as Sundance, SXSW and Tribeca, but The Second Sound Barrier is not one of those films. It’s …
Episode #55: Seth Herzog
Seth Herzog is what Malcolm Gladwell would call a Connector. The Zog seemingly knows everyone in comedy and show business who lives and works in …
TBS orders comedy series “Search Party” starring Alia Shawkat
Alia Shawkat stars in Search Party, a new comedy TBS has just ordered up for 2016 about “a group of four self-absorbed 20-somethings who come …
Revisiting the “Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot” American Summer with director Amy Rice
Amy Rice directed a documentary following Barack Obama from Illinois to the White House (2009’s By the People: The Election of Barack Obama), which was …
Getting oral from Wet Hot American Summer’s cast and crew
Friend of the site Julie Seabaugh put together an oral history on Wet Hot American Summer for this week’s Variety, just in time for the …