The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Take off, Jackhole. While Jimmy Kimmel will remain a partner in the studio he co-founded with Adam Carolla and Daniel Kellison before launching The Man Show way back in the day, the ABC late-night TV host has just started a new media company for all of his future ventures. It’s …
The 2018 New York Television Festival has selected 59 original pilots and pitches for its annual Independent Pilot Competition this July. This year’s festival, the 14th NYTVF, takes place in the summer for the first time – July 14-20, 2018 at The Helen Mills Theater and Event Space, with select events at the SVA …
If you want a Throwback Thursday, then you got a Dell, dude! But would you believe comedian Nick Thune has starred in Dell ads and TV commercials for at least the past year? Certainly you’ve been seeing Thune and more and more on your TV in the past week or …
Norman Lear is a television legend. Writer, producer and creator of all-time classic sitcoms of the 1970s – including All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Maude. Lear made satire tackling race, class, and gender inequalities and things that matter …
Cannot remember ever seeing a late-night TV writing job actually posted in the wild like a regular job opening — and definitely don’t recall ever seeing an industry site grabbing and posting the entire submission packet instructions before. But that’s what happened this past week. The official CBS job posting …
The Writers Guild Association has announced nominees for 2015 achievements in writing for TV, and there’s plenty of praise to go around for broadcast networks, cable, and streaming services. Winners will be announced Feb. 13, 2016, in simultaneous ceremonies held on both coasts for WGA East in New York City …
Michael Ian Black is familiar to anyone who has watched TV in the past two decades — first as a member of MTV sketch group The State, later in shows including Ed, Stella, Michael & Michael Have Issues, and several other series not named after first names. This summer, you …
