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Comedy Central still has one of the 2 Dope Queens lined up for 2020. The network today announced a 10-episode order for a talk show fronted by Phoebe Robinson, featuring one-on-one interviews with headliners across pop culture. “This show will hit that sweet spot between educational and charmingly ignorant,” said Robinson. …
The final episode of The Chris Gethard Show on MNN — Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s municipal access channel — opened tonight with the big announcement: When TCGS returns from its next hiatus in April, it’ll do so as a weekly series on Fusion. “Yes, we’re still going to book cool musical …
For Conan O’Brien’s second installment of his Web-only uninterrupted talk show, “Serious Jibber-Jabber,” the front man for Team Coco on TBS welcomes writer/director/producer Judd Apatow to the table. Over the course of 69 minutes and change, we learn from Apatow that: Upon learning that one of Apatow’s first spec scripts …
Ayn Rand is dead. Long live Ayn Rand. Now why are we talking about her talk show in 2012, then? Is it because GOP VP nominee Paul Ryan professes to be a fan of hers? Is it because our society needs guidance? More likely, it’s because Michaela Watkins is particularly …
Ronna Glickman and Beverly Kahn are the fictional best-selling co-authors of You’ll Do a Little Better Next Time: A Guide to Marriage and Re-marriage for Jewish Singles. In real life, Ronna and Beverly are comedians Jessica Chaffin and Jamie Denbo, friends from the Boston area who have taken their accents west …
At last weekend’s taping of The Comedy Awards, award-winner Hannibal Buress stopped backstage (or technically, under the stage) in the press room to answer a few questions. Buress also took a minute to try to describe his upcoming role as the sidekick/co-host of The Eric Andre Show, which debuts on …
Kathy Griffin’s domination of the Bravo channel’s cable TV audience continues unabated, as Bravo has slated an April 19, 2012, premiere for her weekly primetime talk show, Kathy. Griffin last year had a deal with Bravo to produce four televised stand-up specials, one for each quarter — and 13 in …
Earlier this week, Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios, Inc., announced that its late-night talker Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen had earned a two-season renewal for fall 2011 and fall 2012 (seasons six and seven) in the largest CBS markets of New York City (WCBS), Los Angeles (KCBS) and Chicago (WBBM). The …
SNL writer Mike O’Brien debuted a new web series today called “7 Minutes in Heaven,” which some of you kids may know as a game the teens play when they’re weird at parties and want to kiss other teens. In O’Brien’s case, he does bring his favorite people into the …
