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Search Party moves to HBO Max for seasons 3-4
News / TV

Search Party moves to HBO Max for seasons 3-4

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyOctober 9, 2019October 9, 2019

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: …

TBS announces live programming as part of 2017 New York Comedy Festival
News / TV

TBS announces live programming as part of 2017 New York Comedy Festival

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyOctober 17, 2017

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”
Movies / Reviews

Big Hearts, Big Laughs in Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon’s cinematic love story, “The Big Sick”

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJune 16, 2017June 23, 2017

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
Movies

Watch the trailer for “The Big Sick” based on Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon’s real life love

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyMay 2, 2017May 3, 2017

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
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Netflix goes back to the future, orders Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyApril 27, 2016

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”
Video

David Wain and Michael Showalter break “The Second Sound Barrier”

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyMarch 11, 2016

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
Last Things First -- Podcasts

Episode #55: Seth Herzog

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJanuary 25, 2016

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
TV

TBS orders comedy series “Search Party” starring Alia Shawkat

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyNovember 2, 2015

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
Movies

Revisiting the “Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot” American Summer with director Amy Rice

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyAugust 24, 2015

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
Movies / TV

Getting oral from Wet Hot American Summer’s cast and crew

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyJuly 29, 2015

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 …

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