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Party Down is one of those comedy shows that very few people know about but those who know it, love it and really appreciate the recent revival. The Starz series follows the story of a group of out-of-work actors in Los Angeles who are trying to earn a living by working in a catering company and still hoping to make it big in the industry. Party Down stars Adam Scott, Ken Marino, Lizzy Caplan, Ryan Hansen, Martin Starr, Jane Lynch, and Megan Mullally. So, if you loved the group dynamics, cringe comedy, and a bit of dark humor in Party Down, here are some similar shows you could watch next.

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Corporate is a dark comedy series created by Pat Bishop, Matt Ingebretson, and Jake Weisman. The Comedy Central series follows the miserable lives of two downtrodden employees as they die a...

Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for The Afterparty, Joy Ride and They Cloned Tyrone.

Joy Ride premiere

Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu, and Sabrina Wu joined director Adele Lim, co-writers Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao, and producers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, and Josh Fagen at the film’s Los Angeles premiere on Monday.

Sherry Cola, Sabrina Wu, Stephanie Hsu, Teresa Hsiao, Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, Adele Lim and Ashley Park Josh Fagen, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weave

The Out-Laws premiere

Netflix hosted a special screening of its new comedy in Los Angeles on Monday, with stars Adam Devine, Nina Dobrev, Pierce Brosnan, Poorna Jagannathan, Michael Rooker, Blake Anderson, Lauren Lapkus, Lil Rel Howery, Laci Mosley and producer Adam Sandler.

Adam DeVine, Nina Dobrev and Pierce Brosnan Adam DeVine and Adam...

“Better Call Saul” actor Bob Odenkirk, “Pitch Perfect” star Anna Kendrick and acclaimed comedians Chelsea Handler and Eric André are among the lineup South by Southwest (SXSW) announced for its upcoming comedy festival.

The comedy festival will include improv, stand-up showcases, live podcast recordings and conversations.

In addition to Odenkirk, Kenrick, André and Handler, the comedy lineup features Abbi Jacobson, Adrienne Iapalucci, Andre Hyland, Anthony Atamanuik, Anthony DeVito, Aristotle Athari, Beth Stelling, Brian Moses, Caitlin Peluffo, Caleb Hearon, Christina Catherine Martinez, Doug Benson, Eddie Pepitone, Emma Willmann, Felipe Esparza, Godfrey, Greg Proops, Ismael Loutfi, Jackie Fabulous, Jake Johnson, James Adomian, Jessica McKenna, Joe DeRosa, John Gemberling, Josh Johnson, Joyelle Johnson, Katherine Blanford, Leonard Maltin, Matt Besser, Mike Lawrence, Natalie Palamides, Nick Thune, Patton Oswalt, Pete Lee, Phoebe Robinson, Rachel Sennott, Reggie Watts, Sabrina Jalees, Sam Jay, Sam Tallent, Sandy Honig, Steve Agee, Steph Tolev, Stuart Goldsmith, Tim Robinson, Todd Barry,...

Exclusive: Will Greenberg (Perfect Harmony) and John Gemberling (Broad City) are set to recur in Season 2 of Apple’s The Afterparty from Oscar winners Chris Miller and Phil Lord.

Details regarding the new season are tightly under wraps. All that is known regarding Greenberg and Gemberling’s characters are their names: Judson and Jaxon, respectively.

Created by Miller, The Afterparty is a genre-defying comedy series in which each episode explores a different character’s account of one fateful evening, all told through the lens of popular film genres and unique visuals to match the storyteller’s perspective.

Season 2 will revolve around a murder at a wedding. Sam Richardson and Zoë Chao will reprise their respective roles as Aniq and Zoe, who will take on lead duties solving the crime, with Tiffany Haddish back as Detective Danner.

New cast for the show’s sophomore season includes Elizabeth Perkins, Zach Woods, Paul Walter Hauser,...

Palm Springs Intl. ShortFest has announced a slate of 332 films in its official selection that will be eligible for jury award consideration, including “I Lost My Mother’s Ashes,” starring Mandy Moore; Kevin Dunn in “Josiah”; and Maya Rudolph, Jay Ellis and Laroyce Hawkins in “Thirsty.”

ShortFest will screen a portion of the selected films beginning June 16 and will be available to stream on its website for free through June 22.

“We’re proud to share all the work filmmakers have put into making their films and all of the work our staff has put into making ShortFest happen,” said artistic director Lili Rodriguez. “No one ever imagines launching a film festival during a pandemic, let alone launching one during such politically charged and urgent times. We remain firm believers that movies are empathy machines and stay committed to sharing cinema from different parts of the world, from different and diverse perspectives.

Are you still jonesin' for more Broad City? Comedy Central just released a new featurette about the TV show.

The comedy series, which ended this year after five seasons, follows two best friends — Ilana (Ilana Glazer) and Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) — as they navigate their twenties in New York City. The cast also includes Hannibal Buress, John Gemberling, Stephen Schneider, Arturo Castro, Paul W. Downs, Chris Gethard, and Nicole Drespel.

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Shortly after college I bought a one-way bus ticket, boarded with two duffel bags and no job, and moved to New York City. The metropolis I soon fell in love with looked nothing like how primetime sitcoms described, but Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson soon brought my New York to TV screens with their hilarious “Broad City.”

Growing up, the New Yorkers I watched from my couch were Debra Messing and Eric McCormack. Looking back, I cannot even fathom what the rent would be for their luxurious apartment on “Will and Grace.” I don’t care if Will is a lawyer, there’s no way he could afford it. And while we’re at it, how on earth did Monica and Rachel pay for that massive West Village two-bedroom on “Friends”? So as I struggled to cram my belongings into my new postage stamp of a room in Astoria — yeah,...

Network: Comedy Central

Episodes: 50 (half-hour)

Seasons: Five

TV show dates: January 22, 2014 -- March 28, 2019

Series status: Ended

Performers include: Ilana Glazer, Abbi Jacobson, Hannibal Buress, Arturo Castro, Paul W. Downs, John Gemberling, Chris Gethard, and Stephen Schneider.

TV show description:

This odd couple comedy is based on a web-series of the same name. It follows two best friends -- Ilana (Ilana Glazer) and Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) -- as they navigate their twenties in New York City. Their adventures always lead them down unexpected and outlandish paths.

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It’s pilot season — when broadcast networks decide which of dozens of prospective shows should become full-fledged series.

TheWrap’s complete network pilot guide will keep you up to speed on the status of every project under consideration by ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. In cases where they’ve already ordered a show to series, we’ll say so.

Check back often for regular updates.

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Happy Accident

Writer(s): Jon Pollack, Abraham Higginbotham

Director: Kat Coiro

Studio: 20th Century Fox Television/ABC Studios

Logline: Two Pittsburgh families — a father with three adult daughters, and a hotel lounge singer with her med student son — are forced together after a decades-old secret is revealed. (Single camera)

Cast: Matt Walsh, Joanna Garcia Swisher, Vanessa Williams, Elliot Knight, Kether Donohue, Jessie Pinnick, Robert Smith...

Holly Chou (The Big Sick) is set as the lead, and Cindy Cheung (13 Reasons Why), Stephen Park (In Living Color), Kelly Hu (Arrow), Helen Hong (The Thundermans), Ki Hong Lee (The Maze Runner franchise), Ashley Park (Tales of the City) and John Gemberling (Broad City) round out the series-regular cast of ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot from Emmy-winning Rick & Morty writer Jessica Gao, Imagine Television Studios, ABC Studios and CBS TV Studios.

Written by Gao, who is of Chinese descent, the untitled series is about Janet Zhao (Chou), a first generation Chinese-American woman who struggles to set healthy boundaries with her crazy, exhausting family. When her wealthy grandmother dies and names Janet the sole inheritor, she suddenly finds herself the unwilling new matriarch of the family she’s spent her life trying to keep at arm’s length.

In addition to Chou as Janet, Cheung is Kathy, Park plays Robert,...

What’s old is new again at NBC which has given a pilot green light to Friends-In-Law, a multi-camera comedy from The McCarthys creator/executive producer Brian Gallivan, The Conners executive producer Tom Werner and Warner Bros. TV.

NBC originally developed and ordered Friends-In-Law to pilot last development season. Gallivan’s script is now being re-piloted. I hear that Pamela Fryman, who helmed last year’s pilot, has been approached about returning as director.

Written by Gallivan, Friends-In-Law centers on Brian and Jake, polar opposites who must quickly figure out how to coexist when their respective best friends decide to get married.

The 2018 pilot starred Devere Rogers and James Davis as Brian and Jake, respectively, with Nicole Parker and John Gemberling as their alter-bound friends.

NBC so far has picked up four comedy pilots for next season, two single-camera, including the Kenan Thompson starrer Saving Kenan, and two multi-camera.

Gallivan is repped by UTA.

NBC is taking another pass at the multi-camera comedy “Friends-in-Law.”

The broadcaster has ordered a new pilot for the comedy series after passing on the pilot they ordered last season. In the series, Brian and Jake are polar opposites who must quickly figure out how to coexist when their respective best friends decide to get married.

Brian Gallivan is the writer and executive producer with Tom Werner also executive producing. Warner Bros. Television will produce. The original pilot starred James Davis, Devere Rogers, John Gemberling, and Nicole Parker, none of whom are currently attached to the new pilot.

Gallivan most recently wrote for the ABC series “Imaginary Mary” and “Splitting Up Together.” He previously created the CBS sitcom “The McCarthys.” Werner is an executive producer on the ABC revival of “Roseanne” (now “The Conners”), having served in the same role on the original series. His other executive producing credits include “That ’70s Show,...

"This is a spiritual experience." Comedy Central has just released a new trailer for the fifth and final season of Broad City.

The comedy follows two best friends — Ilana (Ilana Glazer) and Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) — as they navigate their twenties in New York City. The cast also includes Hannibal Buress, John Gemberling, Stephen Schneider, Arturo Castro, Paul W. Downs, Chris Gethard, and Nicole Drespel.

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What's in store for the final season of Broad City? Recently, creators and stars Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer spoke with The New York Times about ending the Comedy Central TV show after five seasons.

The comedy follows two best friends — Ilana (Ilana Glazer) and Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) — as they navigate their twenties in New York City. The cast also includes Hannibal Buress, John Gemberling, Stephen Schneider, Arturo Castro, Paul W. Downs, Chris Gethard, and Nicole Drespel.

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Broad City is back in action! Comedy Central just announced the TV show's fifth and final season will debut in January.

The comedy follows two best friends — Ilana (Ilana Glazer) and Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) — as they navigate their twenties in New York City. The cast also includes Hannibal Buress, John Gemberling, Stephen Schneider, Arturo Castro, Paul W. Downs, Chris Gethard, and Nicole Drespel.

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The Netfix animated comedy “Big Mouth,” from the beginning, has drawn true comedy greats together for some of the finest voice acting around — any show that can spotlight Maya Rudolph, Jason Mantzoukas, Jenny Slate, Fred Armisen, and Jordan Peele with plenty of room left over for an eclectic guest cast that includes Kristen Bell, Richard Kind, June Diane Raphael and more is to be admired.

Season 2 of the series about pre-teens in the literal grip of their hormones brought back those returning favorites alongside leads Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, and Jessi Klein. But in addition, some new blood was added that helped “Big Mouth’s” ensemble rival that of recent favorites like “BoJack Horseman” and true classics like “The Simpsons.” Below is a ranking of the season’s most outstanding new cast members, whose collective experience with prestige dramas and classical theater work was undoubtedly a help while singing about...

Big Mouth’s second season gets even more comfortable in its skin and embraces the weirdness of adolescence that made Season 1 so fun.

This is a spoiler free review.

“Sex is so complicated…”

Puberty is a confusing, disorienting, and overwhelming experience, but it gets easier and more comfortable over time. Curiously, this is not dissimilar from the second season of Big Mouth, Netflix’s wild animated ride through budding sexuality.

The crude animated series is still figuring things out, but its new season is more refined as the show gets a little more comfortable in its own skin and continues to find its (cracking) voice, just like Nick, Andrew, and the other children here who are making their way through puberty. The first season of Big Mouth set a high standard for the series, but its sophomore year does not disappoint and it finds an even greater confidence in its storytelling.

Comedy Central has set A President Show Documentary: The Fall Of Donald Trump mockumentary-style half-hour narrative special with The President Show creator Anthony Atamanuik back as Donald Trump. It’s set for premiere Monday, October 22 at 11 Pm.

According to Comedy Central, the special is set in the year 2030 and looks back at the last days of the Trump administration and the Commander in Chief’s mysterious disappearance. Along with Atamanuik, Peter Grosz reprises his role as Trump’s sidekick Vice President Mike Pence, Kathy Griffin as Kellyanne Conway, Mario Cantone as Anthony Scaramucci, Adam Pally as Donald Trump Jr. and John Gemberling as Steve Bannon. Stephanie March will make her debut as Trump daughter Ivanka Trump.

“If the studio show was a fever dream, this mockumentary is the thing you see right before the fever kills you. But in a silly, fun way!” says Atamanuik.

A President Show Documentary: The...

Stephanie March is back on TV and she's getting political. March, who recently returned to the world of Law & Order: Svu as the fan-favorite character Alexandra Cabot, can next be seen playing a very famous face: Ivanka Trump. E! News has your exclusive first look at March as Ivanka Trump in Comedy Central's upcoming A President Show Documentary: The Fall of Donald Trump. The half-hour mockumentary special hails from the people behind The President Show. Anthony Atamanuik is returning as President Donald Trump alongside Peter Grosz as Vice President Mike Pence, Kathy Griffin as Kellyanne Conway, Mario Cantone as Anthony Scaramucci, Adam Pally as Donald Trump Jr., and John Gemberling as Steve Bannon. This will...

Any time a new technology is introduced into the creative space, the challenge for creators is what they might choose to do with it. So this week, the Hulu Vr app launched a new interactive 360 video experience… that might give you the opportunity to get high with Snoop Dogg.

The new Vr experience “Ryot’s Door No. 1,” which premiered this week on the Hulu Vr app, aims not just to explore the boundaries of this tech but also create a funny and entertaining experience. Set at a 10-year high school reunion and shot from a first-person Pov, you’re in the center of the story as a guy who hopes to hook up with his high school crush. The risks standing in your way: old friends, drugs, a long-lost time capsule, a show choir reunion, and/or Snoop Dogg.

The “and/or” part of that sentence comes courtesy of the...

Hulu publicly unveiled the trailer and a behind-the-scenes video for its new virtual reality (Vr) comedy “Door No. 1” Friday. The comedy, which was written and directed by Nora Kirkpatrick of “The Office” fame and produced by AOL’s Ryot exclusively for Hulu, is set to debut on the service on May 24.

Door No. 1 is a kind of live-action multiple choice comedy adventure about a ten-year high school reunion. The show puts the viewer into the middle of the action by making her or him a protagonist of the show: Alex, one of the former students attending the reunion.

Alex doesn’t talk throughout the show, but can decide to take multiple paths through the story, and make many bad decisions along the way — it’s a high school reunion, after all.

The cast for Door No. 1 included Steve Little (“Eastbound and Down”), Ravi Patel, Kyle Bornheimer (“Casual”), Missi Pyle...

Chris Longo Jan 23, 2019

Comedy Central confirmed Broad City season 5 and an overall deal for its stars.

Broad City is going out on its own terms. Comedy Central confirmed Broad City season 5 will be the final season of the sitcom. Creators and stars Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson won’t be leaving the network for greener pastures, however. The comedy duo inked a first-look deal with Comedy Central’s parent company Viacom, meaning we could soon be seeing more projects from Glazer and Jacobson on Viacom-owned networks.

In a post-Jon Stewart world (relax he’s still alive) where Comedy Central has hemorrhaged talent, Broad City has been a saving grace for the network. The show has been a critical darling and a ratings success for most of its run and a star-making vehicle for Glazer and Jacobson.

"Broad City has been our baby and first love for almost 10 years, since...

A group of people who look a lot like the people who are supposed to run the United States have begun to convene again for Comedy Central.

One of them is Griffin Dunne, the actor known for his role in the 1985 Martin Scorsese dark comedy “After Hours,” and, more recently, 2013’s “Dallas Buyers Club” and Showtime’s comedy “House of Lies.” Dunne is set to take up the role of Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the next iteration of Comedy Central’s “The President Show.” The surreal and satirical comedy has Anthony Atamanuik depicting President Donald Trump as a mercurial and self-indulgent but larger-than-life personality who holds forth from the Oval Office with a rogue talk show. After running a first season of the show, the Viacom-owned cable network will air an hour-long special, “Make America Great-a-Thon: A President Show Special,” on Tuesday, April 3 at 11:00 p.m. eastern.

Nicole Parker (MADtv) is set for a lead role opposite Devere Young and John Gemberling in NBC comedy pilot Friends-In-Law, from The McCarthys creator Brian Gallivan and Warner Bros. TV. Written by Gallivan, Friends-In-Law centers on Brian (Rogers) and Jake (tbd) who are polar opposites and must quickly figure out how to coexist when their respective best friends, Margaret (Parker) and Randy (Gemberling), decide to get married. Parker’s Margaret, a sweet, sarcastic middle…...

Newcomer Devere Rogers and John Gemberling (A Futile and Stupid Gesture) are set as leads in NBC comedy pilot Friends-In-Law, from The McCarthys creator Brian Gallivan and Warner Bros. TV. Written by Gallivan, Friends-In-Law centers on Brian (Rogers) and Jake who are polar opposites and must quickly figure out how to coexist when their respective best friends, Margaret and Randy (Gemberling), decide to get married. Gallivan and Tom Werner executive produce. Rogers’ Brian…...

Steve James had a helluva 24 hours. On Monday morning, the director’s first-ever docuseries “America To Me” was picked up by Starz. That night, his series kicked off the first-ever Sundance Episodic screening, and the next morning — as the fourth and fifth episodes were about to commence in Park City — James received his first-ever Oscar nomination for “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.”

“This has been a pretty good two days at the Sundance Film Festival,” James said, after being introduced and congratulated by Participant Media’s Diane Weyermann. James wiped his face as the crowd gave him a standing ovation, and then things got started.

After years of experimenting with TV screenings, Sundance unveiled its inaugural lineup of independent TV pilots, short-form series, and premieres on Tuesday. Programmed in groups with two-to-four series per screening, the Episodic Section ran in its entirety in two locations on Tuesday. Attendees could see...

Gags, naughty cover shoots, cocaine and other debauchery are showcased in the new trailer for the David Wain-directed A Futile and Stupid Gesture, the upcoming biopic on National Lampoon cofounder Doug Kenney.

Will Forte plays the younger Kenney while Martin Mull portrays the older Kenney in the film, which is based on the book A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever by Josh Karp.

The trailer highlights the wild antics that took place behind the magazine, reflecting its ethos, and features the characters that shaped the publication,...

A Futile and Stupid Gesture will make its debut next month at the Sundance Film Festival, but today Netflix released the first trailer for the comedy about the creators of the National Lampoon. 

David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer) directed the feature, which stars Will Forte as Doug Kenney and Domhnall Gleeson as Henry Beard, the duo behind the magazine and production company that spawned Animal House and Caddyshack. 

The spot also features Lampoon mainstays like Chevy Chase (Community's Joel McHale), John Belushi (John Gemberling), Gilda Radner (Jackie Tohn) and Bill Murray (Jon Daly).

A Futile and Stupid Gesture will premiere on Netflix on Jan....

<em>A Futile and Stupid Gesture</em> will make its debut next month at the Sundance Film Festival, but today Netflix released the first trailer for the comedy about the creators of the <em>National Lampoon</em>. 

David Wain (<em>Wet Hot American Summer</em>) directed the feature, which stars Will Forte as Doug Kenney and Domhnall Gleeson as Henry Beard, the duo behind the magazine and production company that spawned <em>Animal House </em>and<em> Caddyshack</em>. 

The spot also features <em>Lampoon</em> mainstays like Chevy Chase (<em>Community</em>'s Joel McHale), John Belushi (John Gemberling), Gilda Radner (Jackie Tohn) and Bill Murray (Jon Daly).

<em>A Futile and Stupid Gesture </em>will premiere on ...

Fans of the Broad City TV show don't have to worry about the series being cancelled too soon. Comedy Central renewed it through season five, back in January of 2016. Will their faith be rewarded, or will the ratings drop and make them regret the renewal? Stay tuned. A scripted comedy, Broad City follows two best friends -- Ilana (Ilana Glazer) and Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) -- as they navigate their twenties in New York City. In the fourth season, Comedy Central says, "Abbi and Ilana will experience NYC in a whole new way: the dead of winter." They'll also get new jobs, mark their "Friendiversary," experiment with mushrooms, explore being witches, and take a trip to Florida. Hannibal Buress, John Gemberling, Stephen Schneider, Arturo Castro, Paul W. Downs, Chris Gethard, Eliot Glazer, Susie Essman, Bob Balaban, and Nicole Drespel recur on the series.

Vulture WatchWill Dan, Deborah, and Chris run out of time? Has the Making History TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on Fox? The television vulture is watching for the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Making History season two. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you? What's This TV Show About?Phil Lord and Chris Miller's time-travel comedy, airing on the Fox television network, Making History stars Adam Pally, Leighton Meester, Yassir Lester, John Gemberling, and Neil Casey. Ordinary Dan (Pally) discovers time travel and journeys back to Colonial America, where he's a real hit. There, he falls in love with Deborah (Meester), who happens to be the daughter of Paul Revere. Dan asks sharp, sophisticated history professor Chris...

Vulture WatchWill Dan, Deborah, and Chris run out of time? Has the Making History TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on Fox? The television vulture is watching for the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Making History season two. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you? What's This TV Show About?Phil Lord and Chris Miller's time-travel comedy, airing on the Fox television network, Making History stars Adam Pally, Leighton Meester, Yassir Lester, John Gemberling, and Neil Casey. Ordinary Dan (Pally) discovers time travel and journeys back to Colonial America, where he's a real hit. There, he falls in love with Deborah (Meester), who happens to be the daughter of Paul Revere. Dan asks sharp, sophisticated history professor Chris...

Comedians may make you laugh, but don’t underestimate their competitive spirits. On Sunday’s “Celebrity Family Feud,” the Funny Gals take on the Funny Guys, and it’s far more intense than you’d expect.

The Funny Gals team — June Diane Raphael, Andrea Savage, Kristen Schaal, Nicole Byer, and Carla Gallo — and the Funny Guys team — Paul Scheer, John Gemberling, Adam Pally, Eugene Cordero, Horatio Sanz — compete in what has been reportedly been the most competitive match in the history of the show. We say reportedly because that’s what Scheer himself said, and he’s clearly biased. (Editor’s Note: IndieWire is also biased towards Scheer because he conducted one of the best interviews and photo shoots with “Bachelorette” Rachel Lindsay ever.)

Read More‘The Bachelorette’ Rachel Lindsay Gets Grilled By Comedian Paul Scheer And Tells All — IndieWire’s Turn It On Podcast

That said, the episode looks...

Abbi and Ilana are back! Today, Comedy Central announced season four of Broad City will premiere in August.The comedy follows two best friends — Ilana (Ilana Glazer) and Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) — as they navigate their twenties in New York City. The cast also includes Hannibal Buress, John Gemberling, Stephen Schneider, Arturo Castro, Paul W. Downs, Chris Gethard, and Nicole Drespel.Read More…...

Earlier this month, we reported that Fox cancelled Making History after only one season. Recently, creator Julius Sharpe reacted to the news on Twitter.The sitcom follows three friends from two different centuries, as they try to balance the fun and adventure of time travel with the humdrum responsibilities of their otherwise ordinary lives. The cast includes Adam Pally, Yassir Lester, Leighton Meester, John Gemberling, and Neil Casey.Read More…...

Network: FoxEpisodes: 9 (half-hour)Seasons: OneTV show dates: March 5, 2017 — May 21, 2017Series status: CancelledPerformers include: Adam Pally, Leighton Meester, Yassir Lester, John Gemberling, and Neil Casey.TV show description:A single-camera comedy series, the Making History TV show follows three friends from two different centuries, as they try to balance the fun and adventure of time travel with the humdrum responsibilities of their otherwise ordinary lives. The sitcom centers on love, friendship, and how to fit into a complex and indifferent society.Read More…...

The networks sure are keen on time travel tv shows, this season. The Timeless drama series premiered on NBC in October of 2016 but it may well be cancelled and not get a second season. On March 5th, ABC rolled out out another drama, Time After Time, on the same night that the Making History sitcom debuted on Fox. Only time will tell if either show will fare better in the ratings.A single-camera comedy series airing on the Fox television network, the Making History TV show stars Adam Pally, Leighton Meester, Yassir Lester, John Gemberling, and Neil Casey. Ordinary Dan (Pally) discovers time travel and journeys back to Colonial America. There, he falls in love with Deborah (Meester), who happens to be the daughter of Paul Revere. Dan enlists the help of history professor Chris (Lester) to help him correct the blunders he's...

Fox’s time-travel comedy Making History hops across centuries to show us the highlights of American history, but a word of warning: If you actually learn anything, that’s purely by accident.

Sunday’s series premiere introduces us to Dan (Adam Pally), a lazy goofball who works in maintenance at a Boston-area college. He has a secret life, though: Using a duffel bag he found among his dead father’s belongings, he’s able to time-travel to any era he chooses. He keeps going back to Lexington around the time of the American Revolution, because he’s found a sweet...

Time travel is everywhere you look on TV these days — Timeless, Frequency, Legends of Tomorrow, Time After Time — and yet it’s usually of the life-or-death, save-the-world variety. But what if you just want to use your time machine to meet girls and party, man?

That’s the refreshingly lowbrow premise behind Fox’s Making History (premiering Sunday, March 5 at 8:30/7:30c), starring Adam Pally as a modern-day loser who uses a giant duffel bag to travel through time and rearrange past events for his own selfish benefit. Gleefully poking fun at revered historical figures and armed with a supporting cast of alt-comedy all-stars,...

You loved the Marry Me TV show. You might have proposed, if NBC hadn't cancelled Marry Me, after one short season. Well, have we got a proposal for you. The entire one-season series is now on DVD and is available for purchase on Amazon. Why not treat yourself, and buy it?A sitcom featuring a couple who’s been together for six years and are more or less ready to wed, Marry Me ran on NBC for only 14 episodes, between October 2014 and February 2015. All 18 episodes produced are included the DVD set. Casey Wilson, Ken Marino, Sarah Wright Olsen, John Gemberling, Tymberlee Hill, and Tim Meadows star.Read More…...

Fox is going back in time. Recently, the network released new photos and details for their upcoming series Making History.Produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the comedy stars Adam Pally and Yassir Lester as present-day colleagues who travel back in time to save 18th century America. The cast also includes Leighton Meester, John Gemberling, and Neil Casey.Read More…...

Ever want to travel back to colonial times? On Making History, all you have to do is… hop into an old gym bag, apparently.

Fox’s new time-travel comedy — premiering Sunday, March 5 at 8:30/7:30c — stars Happy Endings alum Adam Pally as a slacker who has a magical duffel bag that allows him to travel through time. (His father was a brilliant physicist, you see.) He ends up in Lexington, right before the American Revolution, and uses modern-day song lyrics (and giant hunks of ham) to charm a colonial girl played by Gossip Girl‘s Leighton Meester.

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Former TV Aquaman Alan Ritchson will be a far cry away from Atlantis in Syfy’s near-apocalyptic Blood Drive.

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The Smallville alum has joined the cast of the upcoming grindhouse cinema-inspired series, which centers around the last good cop in Los Angeles (played by Ritchson) and his dangerous femme fatale partner.

Ritchson’s Arthur Bailey is a former officer who is forced to join the Blood Drive, an underground death race in which the cars run on human blood.

Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…

* Game of Thrones‘ Season 6 finale,...

Right before production kicks off, Martin McDonagh‘s highly anticipated Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has improved a remarkably impressive ensemble. The Wrap report on the additions of Peter Dinklage, John Hawkes, and Manchester By the Sea‘s Lucas Hedges, who are to play, in order: a man fancying the picture’s lead (Frances McDormand); said lead’s ex-husband; and said lead’s son.

As previously reported, Three Billboards concerns “a 50-year-old woman whose daughter is murdered and she goes to war with the police in her home town, because she thinks they are more interested in torturing black people than getting justice.” Revealed in the newest update is a bit more about the plot: to shame Ebbing’s police, she “pays for three local billboards lambasting law enforcement officials and goading them into action.” Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell portray the sheriff and “hot-headed protégé,” respectively, while Caleb Landry Jones...

Netflix.s National Lampoon movie A Futile and Stupid Gesture has been casting up a storm lately, and now the movie has found its Harold Ramis and Bill Murray. Actors Rick Glassman and Jon Daly, respectively, will be taking on the roles in the Netflix movie. According to a Deadline report, Rick Glassman (Undateable) and Jon Daly (Kroll Show) will have supporting roles in the film. Glassman will portray Harold Ramis, while Daly will take on the part of Bill Murray in A Futile and Stupid Gesture. The actors will join previously announced players Will Forte, Martin Mull, Joel McHale, Thomas Lennon, Domhnall Gleeson, Jackie Tohn, Matt Walsh and John Gemberling. The film will be based on the 2006 book by journalist Josh Karp, "A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever." Karp.s book is a history of National Lampoon magazine and Doug Kenney,...

"Broad City" actor John Gemberling is set to portray legendary comedian John Belushi in Netflix's original movie "A Futile & Stupid Gesture" which tells the tragic story of National Lampoon co-founder Doug Kenney.

Will Forte is set to play Kenney, Domhnall Gleeson is co-founder Henry Beard, and Joel McHale will co-star as Chevy Chase in the film about Kenney who helped create the popular humor magazine and co-wrote comedy classics "Caddyshack" and "Animal House".

Kenney wound up struggling with drug and alcohol abuse before falling off a cliff in Hawaii under mysterious circumstances. David Wain ("Wet Hot American Summer") helms from a script by Michael Colton and John Aboud, based on the book by Josh Karp.

Peter Principato and Jonathan Stern are producing and filming begins later this month.

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Playing a fictional character well can be a difficult task for actors, but for many, portraying someone who was really existed can be equally challenging, if not more so. This is especially the case for larger-than-life performers, like original Saturday Night Live cast member John Belushi. The Blues Brothers star will be one of the many figures being represented in the Netflix movie about National Lampoon co-founder Doug Kenney, and Broad City’s John Gemberling has been tapped to play the beloved comedian. According to a report from The Wrap, Gemberling has joined A Futile & Stupid Gesture as John Belushi. Directed by Wet Hot American Summer’s David Wain, the movie will follow Doug Kinney, who was editor of the Harvard Lampoon and later co-founded the National Lampoon humor magazine, but also struggled with personal demons until his mysterious death in 1980. In addtion to appearing in the ...

“Broad City” actor John Gemberling is set to portray John Belushi in Netflix’s original movie “A Futile & Stupid Gesture,” which tells the tragic story of National Lampoon co-founder Doug Kenney, TheWrap has exclusively learned. Will Forte is set to play Kenney, while Domhnall Gleeson will play his co-founder Henry Beard. Joel McHale will co-star as his “Community” co-star Chevy Chase. David Wain (“Wet Hot American Summer”) is directing from a script by Michael Colton and John Aboud, based on the book by Josh Karp. Also Read: 'Last Man on Earth's' Will Forte Reveals Why That 'Dumb-Looking' Beard Is Back for Season.

Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer reveal the many ways one can use a bathroom in an outrageous clip that will open the Comedy Central show's third season.

The "Four Seasons in the Bathroom" sequence picks up right where Season Two left off, with Abbi and Ilana rushing to the toilet in the novelty T-shirts they bought on St. Marks, and proceeds to offer a glimpse into the duo's bathroom-based life over the next 11 months.

Set to Lizzo and Caroline Smith's "Let 'Em Say," the clip finds...

Three episodes were provided prior to broadcast.

There’s almost no possible way to logically and sanely defend a show whose heroines believe that everyone’s asshole “has an identity – a soul, an ‘ass-soul’ if you will.” But here I am, and here I will be for the next 900 words or so, sharing my totally illogical and insane appreciation for my two favorite television best friends: Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer. They’re crass, ridiculous messes, but the show encapsulating them isn’t about the existentialism they face in attempting to iron those messes out, but (refreshingly, blessedly, honestly I could hug them) about the hilarity they get into while simply trying to survive until tomorrow.

In Broad City‘s third year, not much has changed for Abbi and Ilana. Abbi’s barely getting by at Soulstice, although she’s finally managed to shirk most of her pubic hair removal...