The Definitive Guide to Comedy
NBCUniversal’s exclusive “Late Night Writers Workshop” happens over a week in April, and the TV conglomerate has released the names of the chosen few who’ll get an intensive look behind the scenes of late-night television. “We are excited and proud to announce the writers chosen for this year’s 2016 NBCUniversal …
The year 2016 may just be the year we’re all convinced to stop watching TV the traditional way, and Seeso will go a long way in convincing comedy fans to do just that — if they haven’t already. Seeso, NBCUniversal’s new digital comedy streaming platform, officially launches Jan. 7, 2016, …
Seeso, the new ad-free pay comedy streaming service set to launch in January 2016, will offer a web-only sneak peek in beta mode for December 2015. Free beta mode previews of Seeso are first-come, first-served, so get on it if you want to get down on it! When the streaming …
NBCUniversal has announced the launch of Seeso, the company’s own comedy video subscription service online that’ll offer ad-free streaming sitcoms (both classic and new original series) for $3.99/month. It’s in beta now. Seeso is headed by Evan Shapiro, who previously helmed Pivot TV and before that, IFC TV and Sundance Channel. …
Former Saturday Night Live stars Horatio Sanz and Fred Armisen are helping their boss’s Broadway Video maintain some sense of diversity by incubating young Latino comedians with a new video outpost, to be called Mas Mejor. “There is no real hub for high-quality Latino comedy,” Sanz told AdWeek. Broadway Video …
NBC ultimately decided to greenlight a 13-episode straight-to-series commitment for a sitcom that went off the air 18 years ago on another network because: a) They were so enamored of Craig T. Nelson’s work as patriarch of the Braverman clan for six seasons on Parenthood, which just wrapped on the …
In the end, ’twas Yahoo! that raised Community from the dead. A last-minute reprieve, as NBCUniversal and Sony Pictures Television’s contracts on Dan Harmon and his cast of Greendale Community College characters would expire at the strike of July 1, 2014, the #sixseasons half of the cult comedy’s self-fulfilling prophecy …
Kimmel went to Austin for SXSW. Conan went to Dallas for March Madness. Now Fallon will take his show on the road, first stop: Orlando. Orlando? Universal Studios Orlando, as in NBCUniversal (Studios), will play host to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon‘s first TV road trip for the week …
Two weeks ago, the folks at Comedy Playground filed suit against NBCUniversal for launching a submission-based sitcom development contest called NBC Comedy Playground. Fine, then. Welcome to the NBC Playground. Now accepting submissions. Shorter name, same deal. Read the fine print, and good luck!
You’re not the only person to have noticed over the years that late-night TV comedy/talk shows are predominately written by and starring white men. NBCUniversal — which includes The Tonight Show (with Jay Leno current edition; Jimmy Fallon as of February 2014), Late Night (with Fallon; soon to be with …
