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It’s a great spring for Lil Rel Howery. Howery, who co-stars in the Oscar-nominated Judas and the Black Messiah as well as new Netflix hit movie Bad Trip with Eric Andre and Tiffany Haddish, plus a new national Aflac TV commercial with Rob Riggle, now also gets a gig of …
NBC isn’t going to let Lilly Singh languish in late-late-night all by herself. The network has ordered two primetime episodes of Sketchy Times with Lilly Singh, with dates to be announced later. “Lilly has always created content that is original, relatable and of the moment,” said Lisa Katz and Tracey …
Lilly Singh filmed her entire first season of her late-late-night talker for NBC in the last few months of 2019, which meant viewers kept seeing regular new episodes of A Little Late with Lilly Singh with studio audiences into May 2020! Now that that’s a wrap, NBC has announced a …
Rick Ludwin, a late-night executive at NBC for three decades who famously saved both Seinfeld and Conan O’Brien from early cancellations during his tenure at the Peacock Network, died Sunday at the age of 71. Ludwin’s TV career began in college at Miami University of Ohio as host of a …
NBC announced it’ll help viewers who don’t normally stay up past Late Night get a peek at the network’s newest late-late night host, Lilly Singh. A Little Late with Lilly Singh: The Primetime Special will air at 10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific (9 p.m. Central/Mountain) on Wednesday, Sept. 18. Her show premieres …
The way TV viewing has shifted in my lifetime, I’m surprised more broadcast networks aren’t putting their best shows on Sunday nights. That said, there’s more to the story of NBC announcing five special Sunday night episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this fall. First, the facts. Fallon’s …
Bring The Funny is no Last Comic Standing. Nor is it America’s Got Talent. So what is Bring The Funny? The newest NBC talent competition is open to all sorts of funny people, from solo acts to groups, from stand-ups to characters to musical duos to prop acts to ventriloquists …
NBC announced today 40 comedy acts vying for the $250,000 prize package and the opportunity to perform at the 2020 Just for Laughs Festival, who’ll be competing on this summer’s inaugural season of Bring the Funny. Bring the Funny premieres July 9, 2019, after America’s Got Talent. Amanda Seales hosts, …
Congrats to my neighbors in Queens!? NBC has ordered the sitcom Sunnyside to series for the upcoming Fall 2019 schedule. The sitcom stars Kal Penn as a young New York City Councilman from the Queens neighborhood of Sunnyside whose career crashes and burns, and then gets rescued, sort of, by …
Looking for funding help to become a comedy filmmaker? The Harold Ramis Film School (“HRFS”) at The Second City today announced a partnership with NBC to create the Emerging Voices Scholarship that will awarded up to four students from diverse backgrounds to study in Chicago. Eligible candidates for the Emerging Voices …
