The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Welcome to Upfronts Week, when each of the broadcast networks march into New York City to meet with advertisers and present their new fall lineups for primetime and hope that advertisers keep buying 30-second spots for the TV, on the TV. So, without further ado, here are the synopses and …
We’re still a month away from Upfronts when the broadcast networks announce their fall primetime lineups full of new shows and renewals, and FOX just now has pulled the trigger on a 10-episode order for a summer sitcom. Famous will premiere on Sunday, June 12, 2016. It hasn’t been cast …
Louis C.K. has made seven episodes of his self-financed, self-made TV series, Horace and Pete, so far. He acknowledges it’s not a sitcom, unless you consider it as what the bar from Cheers would look like if you visited it during the afternoon — 2 to 5 p.m. — before …
Modern Family remains a hit for ABC in its seventh season, and that network has successfully expanded that family sitcom template in the past couple of seasons to include blackish, Fresh Off The Boat, The Goldbergs, and coming next week, they hope to do likewise with The Real O’Neals. CBS …
Does a Good Times reunion sound DYN-O-MITE to you? The surviving original cast members — John Amos (father James Evans, Sr.), Jimmie Walker (J.J.), Bern Nadette Stanis (Thelma), Ralph Carter (Michael) and Ja’Net Dubois (Willona Woods) — have joined in on a united Kickstarter effort to find a movie that …
Netflix Original Comedies, this is not one. Literally. Netflix acquired Real Rob whole Rob, straight from Rob Schneider, who independently financed, produced, and stars in it along with his actual wife, who co-wrote the eight episodes with the former Saturday Night Live cast member and frequent cameo-maker in his SNL …
The industry trade publications broke news about Iliza Shlesinger’s newest gig just minutes before we sat down in her hotel room to talk during the New York Comedy Festival. Schlesinger is making and starring in a comedy series of minisodes for ABC’s new streaming app. But Iliza has been hustling, …
Today’s guest is Phil Rosenthal. Everybody Loves Raymond, but we’re still getting to know Phil, the hit sitcom’s co-creator who is leading us around the world thanks to his new food and travel show on PBS, I’ll Have What Phil’s Having. His first season took us to Tokyo, Italy, Paris, …
Winning a prize at the New York Television Festival might not put your independent TV pilot on the air immediately, but it definitely will put you on the map and on the radar for the executives and showrunners who are looking to hire the next great voice. Even just before …
Gary Vider made it to the finals this summer of America’s Got Talent on NBC, and certainly made the most of it — not only by telling funny stand-up routines that earned him kudos from the judges and audiences, but also by using his time and the AGT budget to …
