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Cameron Diaz's return to acting is set to continue with another partnership with Netflix. Once one of Hollywood's most sought-after actresses, Diaz retired on her own terms back in 2014 to focus on her family. She got back into the acting spotlight with the Netflix action comedy, Back in Action, and now she's continuing that union with another endeavor.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Diaz is set to lead the action comedy Bad Day, a film directed by Jake Szymanski from a screenplay by Laura Solon. The movie is said to be a comedic take on the 1993 drama, Falling Down, which starred Michael Douglas and was directed by Joel Schumacher. In that film, Douglas portrayed a man who was taken to his mental limits while trying to make it to his daughter's birthday party. In Bad Day, Diaz will play a single mother who is trying to keep a promise to...

Cameron Diaz is to star in the Netflix movie Bad Day.The 52-year-old actress has signed up to feature in the streaming giant's project from director Jake Szymanski – who helmed the acclaimed comedy series Jury Duty.The movie centres on a single mother who is fighting to keep one small promise to her daughter on the worst day of her life.The picture has been described as a comedic version of Joel Schumacher's 1993 film Falling Down, in which Michael Douglas plays a man who reaches breaking point as he attempts to get to his daughter's birthday party.The script has been penned by Laura Solon and the movie is being produced by Beau Bauman for Good One Productions.Bad Day will shoot in New York and New Jersey later this year.Cameron returned to the big screen after an 11-year absence in the Netflix picture Back in Action earlier...

Cameron Diaz’s return to acting in Back in Action was a huge moment that resonated with audiences across the world, and her blockbuster renaissance doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon. Back in Action quickly became Netflix’s 6th biggest movie of all time earlier this year, marking the popular star's return from an unofficial 11-year retirement.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Diaz has reportedly signed on for another action comedy at Netflix from Jury Duty director Jake Szymanski entitled Bad Day. With a screenplay written by Laura Solon, the film centers around a single mother trying to keep her daughter happy after the worst day of her life.

Details of the story have already been compared to Joel Schumacher’s Falling Down, the 1993 comedy starring Michael Douglas and Barbara Hershey. The film will reportedly start shooting in just a few months throughout New York and New Jersey.

After an extended acting hiatus, Cameron Diaz recently returned to the screen with her role alongside Jamie Foxx in the action comedy movie Back in Action. She will be heading back to Netflix for her next feature film role, taking on a character similar to one played by Michael Douglas in 1993.

Per THR, Diaz is set to star in Netflix's Bad Day, an action comedy movie directed by Jake Szymanski. Laura Solon wrote the screenplay and will also executive produce alongside Mark Moran. Beau Bauman, who worked with Diaz on Back in Action, is serving as a producer for Bad Day as well. Solon and Bauman previously collaborated on Office Christmas Party and Let It Snow.

Bad Day follows Diaz as a "single mom fighting to keep one little promise to her daughter on the absolute worst day of her life." The plot is reminiscent of Falling Down, Joel Schumacher's 1993 drama.

Bring out your Spider-Man briefs and do the Charlie’s Angels booty dance because Cameron Diaz is back, baby! After co-starring alongside Jamie Foxx in the Seth Gordon-directed spy comedy Back in Action, Diaz is re-teaming with Netflix for Bad Day, an action comedy with vibes similar to Joel Schumacher’s 1993 psychological drama Falling Down.

Jury Duty helmer Jake Szymanski will direct Bad Day from a script by Laura Solon, with the plot focusing on “a single mom fighting to keep one little promise to her daughter on the absolute worst day of her life.”

Beau Bauman, who produced Back in Action, will produce through his Good One Productions. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bad Day is described as a comedic version of Falling Down, Schumacher’s tragic thriller starring Michael Douglas, Barbara Hershey, and Robert Duvall. It is about an ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society,...

Cameron Diaz took a decade-long break from acting and returned this year in the Netflix action-comedy Back in Action… and now she’s making another movie for the streamer!

It was just announced that Cameron will star in the upcoming action comedy Bad Day for Netflix.

THR reports that the movie follows “a single mom fighting to keep one little promise to her daughter on the absolute worst day of her life.”

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It’s being reported that the movie will shoot this fall in New York and New Jersey. Jake Szymanski will direct the film. He’s best known for the series Jury Duty and the movie Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.

Cameron will also reprise her voice role of Princess Fiona in the upcoming Shrek 5 and she’s starring in Jonah Hill‘s upcoming movie Outcome alongside a star-studded cast.

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Cameron Diaz, who after a near-decade hiatus made a return to acting this year with Netflix’s hit Back in Action, is continuing to be back in action.

The actress has reunited with the streaming giant and signed on to star in Bad Day, an action comedy to be directed by Jake Szymanski, who helmed the well-regarded comedy series Jury Duty as well as Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.

Beau Bauman, who produced Back in Action, is producing with his Good One Productions.

Written by Laura Solon, the original script centers on a single mom fighting to keep one little promise to her daughter on the absolute worst day of her life.

The project has been described as a comedic version of Falling Down, the 1993 drama directed by Joel Schumacher that starred Michael Douglas as a man who hits his breaking point while trying to get to his daughter’s birthday party.

Remember that comedy show that had everyone talking last year? You know, the one where James Marsden played himself while some poor, unsuspecting guy thought he was on a real jury? Well, guess what? Jury Duty is officially returning for Season 2, and here’s the kicker—it’s already been filmed!

Yep, you read that right. While we’ve all been wondering if we’d ever see a follow-up to Amazon’s breakout hit, the production team has been secretly working away, wrapping up an entirely new season.

A still from Jury Duty (2023) | Credits: Amazon Prime Video

Originally on Freevee, the Emmy-nominated series has moved to Prime Video following Amazon’s platform reshuffling last November. Talk about keeping things under wraps! This documentary-style comedy that captured our hearts with its unique premise is about to surprise us all over again, but this time, we’re trading courtroom drama for corporate shenanigans.

Jury Duty will return for — and has already filmed — a second season at Amazon Prime Video, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed Thursday.

Amazon declined to comment on the news. Season one of the show aired in 2023 on Amazon’s Freevee and endeared audiences with its candid camera comedy starring an unknowing Ronald Gladden. Actors — including James Marsden (playing himself) — improvised along as caricatures of fellow jurors, a judge and other courtroom personalities while Gladden went the whole stint believing the entire ruse was real.

Sources report Jury Duty‘s second season will leave the witness stand behind in favor of a corporate retreat setting. It was shot in the Agoura Hills suburb of Los Angeles.

Season one showrunner Cody Heller previously told THR she was “terrified” by the challenge of pulling off the candid camera feat. “There was something about that fear of failure that ignited something in myself,” she said.

“Jury Duty” will be back for Season 2 sooner than we think.

The Amazon Freevee comedy, which became a surprise hit for the platform and migrated over to Prime Video after the sibling streamer’s shuttering, already produced its next installment, according to media reports.

Amazon representatives declined to comment for the story.

The new season is believed to be set at a corporate retreat instead of a courtroom, according to a report from Variety. Filming took place in Los Angeles and Deadline reported the story will center around a David vs. Goliath theme.

“Jury Duty” was created by Lee Eisenberg, and Gene Stupnitsky. Season 1 followed breakout star Ronald Gladden in a documentary-style journey following his time as a juror, until it is revealed that the proceedings were fake from the start.

The series is executive produced by the pair alongside David Bernad, Ruben Fleischer (“Superstore”), Nicholas Hatton, Cody Heller (“Dummy”), Todd Schulman,...

“Jury Duty” has been summoned once again.

The comedy series, which debuted on Amazon’s now-defunct streamer Freevee as a surprise hit in 2023, will run for a second season on Amazon Prime Video, Variety has learned from sources. Amazon did not comment on the renewal.

Additionally, a source tells Variety that Season 2 will be set at a corporate retreat rather than a courtroom, and that it was shot in the Los Angeles suburb of Agoura Hills. Amazon did not comment on this information.

Season 1 of the documentary-style project followed Ronald Gladden’s journey as a juror during a trial that gets increasingly more dysfunctional until it’s finally revealed that the entire case is fake and everyone besides him is a paid actor.

When asked by Variety about potential future seasons, “Jury Duty” showrunner Cody Heller said, “Obviously, it would have to be a whole different universe. You couldn’t just do jury duty again,...

One of the comedy breakouts of 2023 was Jury Duty, a documentary-style comedy for Amazon Freevee that featured James Marsden and other actors surrounding an unsuspecting juror at a trial. The Emmy-nominated comedy is back and — surprise — its second season is already in the can, sources tell Deadline. It will run on Prime Video where Freevee’s content migrated after Amazon’s free ad-supported streaming platform was shut down last November.

Details are being kept under wraps but we hear that the theme of the new installment is David vs. Goliath. Taking inspiration from classic 1980s movies such as Animal House and Caddyshack, it is about a small business going on a company retreat, with the real, unsuspecting person tested when a Goliath suddenly shows up, sources said.

To protect the integrity of the premise with the regular person not realizing that they are part of a scripted TV show, just...

It’s another iconic 2025 Super Bowl commercial, this time, from Hellmann’s mayonnaise!

The ad is a play on the famous film When Harry Met Sally and co-stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, the original stars of the 1989 classic rom-com.

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The ad calls on Meg to recreate her iconic scene at Katz’s. The “I’ll have what she’s having” moment proves a triumph when she adds a little mayo to her sandwich!

Sydney Sweeney also makes a cameo in the spot, which was produced by Gifted Youth and directed by Jake Szymanski.

If you’re looking to revisit some past Super Bowl commercials, see the most popular ones from 2024′s game!

Watch the big game spot below. The 2025 Super Bowl is airing on Fox right now on Sunday (February 9). And buy Hellmann‘s now!

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There might be no better one-line bumper better than “I’ll have what she’s having.” The scene from When Harry Met Sally in question – in which Meg Ryan’s Sally proves that a woman can successfully fake an orgasm, much to Billy Crystal’s Harry’s embarrassment – itself is iconic, but the line stands as a top-tier comedy punchline. Now, Ryan, Crystal and a surprise guest have recreated that scene in a spot to be aired during Super Bowl Lix.

Like the famous scene, the ad is set in Katz’s Delicatessen, with Harry declaring, “I can’t believe they let us back in this place,” referring to the scene Sally made all those years ago. After some disappointment in her lunch (probably because it didn’t take her an hour and a half to order it), Sally adds Hellmann’s mayonnaise and is immediately hit with a sensation. But...

With the Super Bowl around the corner, major companies and films are getting ready for the equivalent of Christmas season for marketing with creative ads. One of them included the lead actors of When Harry Met Sally.

36 years after the release of the romantic comedy, When Harry Met Sally continues to be highly iconic. The two actors, Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, had amazing chemistry and their banter elevated the comedy, marking one of the most successful friends-to-lovers couples on television. This, alongside the iconic diner scene, is what made Hellmann's choose the two for its Super Bowl ad.

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In the 30-second commercial, Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan returned to Katz's Delicatessen in New York.

After more than 35 years, When Harry Met Sally co-stars Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal have reunited for lunch at Katz’s Delicatessen. The occasion? A Super Bowl commercial for Hellmann’s mayonnaise, but of course.

Without giving too much away, the duo recreate one of the most famous scenes from their 1989 romantic comedy. The commercial also features a surprise celebrity cameo at the very end.

“They both said they hadn’t been back inside Katz’s since they shot the scene, and so we got to be there for the moment when they both walked on set,” said the commercial’s director Jake Szymanski (via The Hollywood Reporter). “They also hadn’t seen each other in a couple years. So we got to see them walk back into this place, and the memories flood back, and they start remembering and sharing stories and talking about what it was like to film that day.

Last December, Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan returned to Katz’s Delicatessen on New York’s Lower East Side for the first time since their 1989 romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally … was released.

The occasion was a Super Bowl commercial for Hellmann’s mayonnaise, a spot in which Ryan and Crystal reprise their roles as Sally Albright and Harry Burns to re-create one of the most famous scenes in comedy history, at the same table where the original moment was filmed 35 years earlier.

“They both said they hadn’t been back inside Katz’s since they shot the scene, and so we got to be there for the moment when they both walked on set,” says director Jake Szymanski, speaking at the commercial’s premiere, which was held in the iconic deli Tuesday evening. “They also hadn’t seen each other in a couple years. So we got to see...

It looks like Jon Snow knows something after all — namely, what his next role will be. Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington has signed on to star alongside Mark Wahlberg in the sequel to his 2023 action comedy, The Family Plan.

In a new, exclusive report from Deadline, the Apple Original Films sequel is a follow-up to the most-watched film on Apple TV+ since its debut last year. According to Justin Kroll's reporting, the new installment will be a holiday film, and:

Penned by David Coggeshall, The Family Plan sequel takes place at Christmas in Europe where Dan has planned the perfect vacation for the Morgans, but his past continues to haunt them in unexpected ways.

Unfortunately, specific details surrounding Harington's character are being kept under wraps. One can only hope he's playing the main antagonist or villain, as Harington's comedy chops have been — up until this point — mostly under-utilized.

The regrettable moment in "Jury Duty" involved Ronald Gladden and an unexpected party mix-up during episode six. Gladden signed up for the show after finding an ad on Craigslist, leading to genuine connections with the cast. Producers are optimistic about a second season of "Jury Duty" with a new concept, celebrating being a good person.

It was a reality TV series fans didn't know they needed. Amazon's Jury Duty was a massive success, and Ronald Gladden was a big part of it. The show changed Gladden's life forever. However, there was a certain moment Jake Szymanski regretted looking back at the show.

We're going to reveal what that was, and how Ronald Gladden found out about the show, and ended up being the only non-actor. In addition, we'll take a look at the future of Jury Duty, and if a season 2 is in the works. Although there hasn't been any word just yet,...

Following a turbulent year marked by dueling industry strikes and the violent contraction–if not yet full pop–of the streaming bubble, 2024 has thus far been pretty good to Hollywood. It certainly helps that we’re in the middle of awards season, which for cineastes amounts to a three-month holiday largely characterized by voluminous binge-watching. And not just binge-watching of the year’s top films. For the curious, the season also offers up a smuggler’s bounty full of talking special post-screening Q&As, roundtables, filmmaker panels, celebratory cocktail receptions and more.

Traditionally Film Independent’s Directors Close-Up series has been a little bit of all of the above, presenting behind-the-scenes insight into the year’s most important works of cinema, straight from the mouths and brains of filmmakers themselves. As the virtual portion of this year’s programming winds down (see below), we’re looking ahead now to our...

This past spring, social media lit up around a very new kind of American Sweetheart: 30-year-old Ronald Gladden, a solar contractor who believed he was signing up for a documentary on the jury system and instead ended up being the adored lead presence of Amazon Freevee’s fish-out-of-water comedy “Jury Duty.” Gladden answered a Craigslist ad, the producers took a shine to him, and history was made.

“So, I wasn’t part of the Ronald process,” Emmy-nominated casting director Susie Farris told TheWrap. “Ronald is a real person, and I don’t cast reality. [Laughs] But you know, obviously, the crazy part about the show is that every single person except for one is an actor.”

And that’s what made “Jury Duty” one of the year’s most singular TV challenges: casting buoyant, quick-witted, versatile actors that the general public would not recognize to improvise against Gladden as his fellow jurors,...

Power publicist Alla Plotkin is teaming up with Jillian Roscoe, becoming a partner in Birch Public Relations.

Roscoe launched the firm in March 2023 after leaving ID PR. Plotkin also departed ID at about the same time but didn’t announce her next move until her new partnership with Roscoe.

Plotkin’s clients, including Sarah Paulson, Nicholas Braun, Bette Midler, Holland Taylor, Harvey Guillen, Amber Tamblyn, Chris Colfer, Titus Burgess and Rayna Greenberg and Ashley Hesseltine of Girls Gotta Eat, will join Birch’s roster, which includes Donald Glover, Jeremy Allen White, Sharon Horgan, John Cho, James Marsden, Kemp Powers, Gerard Butler, Judy Greer, Jesse Garcia, Mandy Moore, David Duchovny, Lake Bell, Jim Parsons, Fred Armisen, Jake Johnson, Ben Schwartz, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Melissa Rauch, Hannah Fidell, Ken Marino, Sarah Chalke, London Hughes, Lewis Howes, Zach Woods, Ty Burrell, Clay Tarver, Kevin Tancharoen, Julian Dennison, Jake Szymanski, Nicolette Robinson, Anna Drezen,...

When the list of potential Emmy nominees was officially released on Thursday, the Amazon Freevee genre-bending comedy “Jury Duty” listed six submissions for Emmy Awards comedy supporting actor and actress: James Marsden, David Brown, Susan Berger, Cassandra Blair, Edy Modica and Rashida Olayiwola. That may not seem particularly significant, but for a series that seemingly against all odds caught hold of the zeitgeist this past spring, it’s massive. The craziest part is that it actually has a chance of pulling in an Emmy nom or two – perhaps even in comedy series and (maybe especially) comedy series casting for its casting director Susie Farris.

In fact, I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that “Jury Duty” is going to be the Andrea Riseborough of this Emmy season and shock the awards world as a grassroots phenomenon by cracking the best comedy nominee lineup. And it...

Jury Duty‘s back and delivering all of the commentaries you wish you had while watching the first time around on Amazon Freevee. Re-releasing the first season with commentary from the cast, including Ronald Gladden and James Marsden, as well as director Jake Szymanski, this latest version promises just as many laughs along with answers. Already streaming on Amazon Freevee, the new commentary episodes unveil never-before-heard anecdotes about what it took to create the chaotic world in which Ronald thinks he’s making a documentary about serving on a jury but is, in fact, the hero of a story filled with actors pretending to be everyday people, including Marsden who portrays a fictional version of himself. In an exclusive Q&a below, executive producer Nicholas Hatton offers up some fun Easter Eggs and explains the release of the commentary episodes and much more. (Credit: Amazon Freevee) What can viewers anticipate...

In the final episode of Jury Duty, the cast and crew take the time to walk unknowing hero Ronald Gladden through the production behind everything he just experienced. He’s still in disbelief even as the hidden cameras and fake sets are revealed and actors share their real names, unable to take it all in. But it’s now been more than a year since the series was filmed, and Gladden is back to reflect and reveal even more behind-the-scenes secrets alongside director Jake Szymanski and stars James Marsden, Mekki Leeper (Noah), Cassandra Blair (Vanessa), and Maria Russell (Inez) for Jury Duty Exclusive Cast Commentary episodes.

“Jury Duty” has no business working as well as it does, and Jake Szymanski, who directed all eight episodes, knows it. “It just sounded like a crazy, almost impossible idea, which is what I’m attracted to,” he tells Gold Derby. “It sounded tough. It sounded like a mental puzzle on how to pull it off.”

The Amazon Freevee comedy follows Ronald Gladden, a solar panel contractor who believes he’s participating in a documentary as he serves jury duty. In reality, he had no idea he was on a scripted TV show and that everything in his life for three weeks was fake and heavily planned — from the case and the sequestration to the 11 actors as his fellow jurors (and James Marsden as an entitled version of James Marsden) and that dinner at Margaritaville.

Szymanski and the “Jury Duty” team spent four months in pre-production meticulously creating an immersive...

The sleeper Amazon Freevee genre-bending docu-comedy hit “Jury Duty” announced today that it’s releasing the eight-part series in a cast commentary edition for streaming beginning Thursday. The revised installments will include secrets from the jury box as told by director Jake Szymanski, hero Ronald Gladden, and some of the jurors themselves including actors James Marsden, Mekki Leeper, Cassandra Blair and Maria Russell. It promises to feature never-before-heard anecdotes about what it took to create the meticulously-planned series both inside the courtroom and out. New testimony will reveal exactly what Gladden was thinking in every unpredictable moment.

If you haven’t discovered “Jury Duty,” it’s been described as the world’s first feelgood prank show. It’s basically “The Office” meets “The Truman Show.” The premise: A guy (Gladden) answers a Craigslist add looking for someone to participate in a filmed documentary about serving on a jury. What they...

The jury is still out on whether Amazon Freevee’s mockumentary sitcom “Jury Duty” will be able to break into the Emmys race, but the excitement for the comedy has taken the TV world by storm, and Amazon sees an opening for it.

Variety has learned exclusively Amazon plans to submit the eight-episode inaugural season for the Emmy comedy categories, seeking recognition in over a dozen key races including acting, writing and directing.

Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Emmy predictions in all categories.

Created by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, the series follows the inner workings of a jury trial through the eyes of Ronald Gladden, a solar contractor from San Diego, who is unaware that his jury duty summons was not official and everyone on the jury aside from him, is an actor.

Gladden has been the comedy’s breakout star of the series and will...

Casting director Susie Farris got the unique opportunity to participate in the meticulous process of jury selection, choosing all but one of 12 jurors — but it was for an entirely made-up court case.

Even with over two decades of casting experience and credits in “Elf,” “Wet Hot American Summer,” “Speechless” and “Mr. Robot,” she had never been met with a task quite like casting Amazon Freevee’s viral series “Jury Duty,” a hidden-camera, “Truman Show”-esque comedy.

In the weeks after its release, “Jury Duty” has been applauded for its outstanding cast of actors, improv comedians and one Ronald Gladden, the lone, non-actor who believed the entire, absurd court case was real.

Farris spoke with Variety to share her process behind selecting television’s favorite petit jury.

Most casting directors don’t work with improv actors, so what was it like for you? Had you ever done anything like this before?...

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Fatal Attraction premiere

Joshua Jackson, Lizzy Caplan, Amanda Peet, Alyssa Jirrels, Toby Huss, Brian Goodman, Reno Wilson and showrunner Alexandra Cunningham walked the carpet at the Fatal Attraction premiere in L.A. on Monday.

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Ronald Gladden thought he was just doing his civic duty, with a few cameras following along. Like all the other participants in the documentary-style comedy series "Jury Duty," which premiered on Amazon Freevee on April 7, Gladden plays himself in the show - but unlike the others, who are all actors, Gladden actually thought he was participating in a documentary about a real trial.

"Jury Duty," though, is most definitely not about a real trial. Co-created by "The Office"'s Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, the show stars James Marsden, a group of actors, and the unsuspecting Gladden as jurors in a three-week Los Angeles trial. Out of the 12 jurors, Gladden is the only one who isn't aware that he's in a carefully plotted comedy series.

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Yes, Jake Szymanski has directed episodes of Saturday Night Live, and yes, he has an improv background. But even those experiences didn’t fully prepare him to direct Jury Duty. Nothing could.

Amazon Freevee’s comedy, which follows a regular guy who doesn’t realize he’s part of a fake jury trial, might have its roots in hoax shows like Candid Camera and Punk’d, but its scope is even more audacious. For three weeks of filming, Ronald Gladden, the juror who was hoaxed, was fully immersed in the show. He was sequestered with fake jurors, and he even surrendered his phone so that he couldn’t contact the outside world. That meant the creative team had to build a full-time fictional environment. Szymanski wasn’t just directing a few scenes. He was directing Ronald’s entire life.

TBS’ “Miracle Workers” starring Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi and TruTV’s “Tacoma Fd” have been greenlit for fourth installments, the “TNets” announced today in a statement.

In addition, TBS has picked up “Kill the Orange-Faced Bear” for a 10-episode series and the network has set premiere dates for “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” and “American Dad!”. TNT’s “Snowpiercer” will debut its third season on Jan. 24.

“’Miracle Workers’ and ‘Tacoma Fd’ never fail to deliver good times, good laughs and passionate fans. We love the unique sensibility and distinctive, bold comedy of these shows,” Adrienne O’Riain and Sam Linsky, co-heads of scripted programming for the TNets, said in the announcement. “The fact that they continue to resonate so strongly with audiences speaks to the dedication of their creators and their brilliant network executives.”

Each season of the anthology comedy series “Miracle Workers” features the same cast playing different roles in a new setting.

TBS has picked up to series comedy pilot Kill the Orange-Faced Bear starring Damon Wayans Jr. The network has ordered 10 episodes of the comedy about one man’s epic revenge journey after a bear eats his girlfriend.

Wayans Jr. stars as Hank, the charming, funny and grieving man who’s hell-bent on tracking down Brenda the bear, along with Jessy Hodges as Jamie, the twin sister of Hank’s late girlfriend; Alex Karpovsky as Ronnie, an oddball park ranger; and Nate Torrence as Murray, Hank’s best friend. The voice cast lineup includes Sarah Silverman as Brenda, the sarcastic badass grizzly bear who attacked and ate Hank’s girlfriend; Nicole Byer as Pauline, a bear with perfect fur and perfect nails who uses her feminine wiles to seduce Brenda’s husband; and Sam Richardson as Steve, the charmingly idiotic bear with a dangerous habit of breaking into cars to steal snacks and beer.

Exclusive: Sarah Silverman (I Love You America), Nicole Byer (Wipeout) and Sam Richardson (Veep) will lend their voices to TBS’ comedy pilot Kill the Orange-Faced Bear. They join previously announced live-action cast Damon Wayans Jr., Jessy Hodges, Alex Karpovsky and Nate Torrence. The pilot is scheduled to begin shooting in Portland in May.

Kill the Orange-Faced Bear is about one man’s (Wayans Jr.) epic revenge journey after a bear eats his girlfriend (Hodges).

Silverman voices Brenda, the sarcastic badass grizzly bear who attacked and ate Hank’s fiancée Stacy—for personal reasons. When Stacy’s friends panicked and mistook a can of spray paint for bear mace, they turned Brenda’s face orange—but she won’t let being marked make her an easy target for Hank’s revenge plan.

Byer voices Pauline, a bear with perfect fur and perfect nails who uses her feminine wiles to seduce Brenda’s husband.

Damon Wayans Jr. (Happy Endings) has been tapped as the lead of TBS’ comedy pilot Kill the Orange-Faced Bear. Jessy Hodges (Barry), Alex Karpovsky (Girls), and Nate Torrence (Hello Ladies) also have been cast in the pilot, scheduled to begin shooting in Portland in May.

Kill the Orange-Faced Bear is about one man’s (Wayans Jr.) epic revenge journey after a bear eats his girlfriend (Hodges).

Wayans Jr. will play Hank, the charming, funny and grieving man who’s hell-bent on tracking down the bear who attacked his girlfriend on a camping trip. We’ll follow his side of the story as well as the bear’s, who is just trying to move on from the incident and navigate the other idiot bears in her life.

Jessy Hodges will play Stacy, Hank’s late girlfriend, as well Jamie, her twin sister with a confusing secret. Alex Karpovsky is Ronnie, an...

Damon Wayans Jr. has signed on to star in “Kill the Orange-Faced Bear,” the TBS comedy pilot about a man bent on revenge after a bear eats his girlfriend.

Wayans Jr., whose credits include the much-beloved “Happy Endings” as well as his disappearance and then reappearance on the hit “New Girl,” will be joined by Jessy Hodges (“Indebted”), Alex Karpovsky (“Girls”) and Nate Torrence (“Hello Ladies”).

Wayans Jr., who will also serve as an executive producer, plays Hank, described as a “charming, funny and grieving man who’s hell-bent on tracking down the bear who attacked his girlfriend on a camping trip.” “Kill the Orange-Faced Bear” will be told both from Hank’s point of view, as well as the Pov of the bear, “who is just trying to move on from the incident and navigate the other idiot bears in her life.”

Hodges was cast as Stacy, the girlfriend who becomes the bear snack,...

TBS has ordered a pair of comedy pilots from writers Chris Romano and Hilary Winston, Variety has learned exclusively.

Romano’s pilot is titled “Kill the Orange-Faced Bear.” It is described as a comedy about one man’s revenge journey after a bear eats his girlfriend.

Romano will write and executive produce the pilot, with Trevor Engelson and Steven Fisher of Underground producing with Alex Karpovsky. Jake Szymanski will executive produce and direct the pilot.

Winston’s pilot is called “Space.” In the project, long term couple Rob and Marin, on the verge of a breakup, are granted the ultimate “space” to figure out their future when they suddenly begin jumping into the bodies of other couples. I

Winston is writing the pilot with Nick Stoller attached to direct and executive produce via Stoller Global Solutions. Sony Pictures Television will produce.

On the development side, TNT is developing a pair of one-hour drama projects.

Director Jake Szymanski is back with a new installment in what's become his mockumentary trilogy, beginning with 2015's 7 Days in Hell, followed by 2017's Tour de Pharmacy, and now continuing with John Bronco. Made under the Brian Grazer-Ron Howard shingle Imagine Documentaries, John Bronco charts the rise and fall of the enigmatic (but extremely fictional) former Ford pitchman, John Bronco. And, naturally, the only man suited to play this rogue, one-of-a-kind tumbleweed blowin' in the wind is Walton Goggins. [caption id="attachment_935977" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Imagine Documentaries/caption] Because …...

There’s an inherent danger in nostalgia. As we’ve witnessed over the past four years, slogans about some mythical better time in America can come loaded with prejudice. Those good ol’ days weren’t all that great for everyone.

But there are some anachronistic artifacts that are worth … if not celebrating, then at least marveling at, like curios on a shelf. Hulu’s quirky new mockumentary John Bronco unearths an oldie but a goody: the archetype of the masculine pitchman, that kind of rough-hewn all-American male for whom a thick mustache,...

Hulu has released the trailer for John Bronco. Walton Goggins stars as John Bronco, the greatest pitchman to ever live. The mockumentary is all set to premiere October 15th, exclusively on Hulu. The trailer has Goggins cranked up to eleven as a Burt Reynolds mixed with a used car salesman-type of character as he goes around racing cars, riding horses, and creating products with his face on them.

Some have said that if you were famous before the internet, you might as well never have existed. Such is the case for John Bronco, the greatest pitchman who ever lived. In 1966, Ford tapped him to race their new prototype SUV at the Baja 500 in Mexico. Not only did he win, but he gave a rousing speech that rallied a nation. Legend has it that Ford named the new car "Bronco" after John, made him the face of their campaign and skyrocketed him to stardom.

Believe it or not, the 2016 comedy film, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, is based on a true story. In terms of true story films, Mike and Dave doesn't quite rank alongside films like Munich or Dog Day Afternoon, but it's also not trying to be. It's just a fun comedy starring Zac Efron, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, and Adam DeVine.

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It also happens to be one of the premiere wedding comedies of the past five years. The wedding comedy genre has been shifting towards the small screen, but Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates made the case for the film on the big screen back when it came out. If this Jake Szymanski film worked for certain audiences, then they'd definitely appreciate these films, too.

Santa Fe author Forrest Fenn, known for his 2010 book Thrill of the Chase which inspired a popular treasure hunt in the Rocky Mountains, died on Monday. He was 90.

Fenn died of natural causes in his Santa Fe home.

The writer and former U.S. Air Force pilot rose to notoriety after a poem in his memoir The Thrill of the Chase hinted at the location of a hidden cache of about $2 million in jewels and gold. His poem not only inspired treasure hunters to embark on their treacherous quest for his treasure but encouraged them to document their own experiences on the hunt.

Earlier this year the popular hunt made headlines as a Colorado woman, whose husband died searching for Fenn’s secret treasure, claimed that the Santa Fe writer never hid anything. Despite the woman’s claims, Fenn announced that another hunter following his clues supposedly found the treasure. The author,...

Walton Goggins is one of those actors who I'll watch in anything, so you can bet your shiny chiclet teeth that I'll definitely be checking out John Bronco. The upcoming mockumentary from Jake Szymanski, best known for 7 Days In Hell, Tour De Pharmacy, Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates, and an assortment of skits for Funny or Die and Saturday Night Live, finds Goggins playing John Bronco in the unbelievable story of the rise, fall, and ultimate redemption of the legendary Ford Bronco…...

A famous Ford pitchman has gone missing and the John Bronco teaser trailer previews the search to find the living legend. John Bronco is the latest mockumentary outing from director Jake Szymanski, who previously gifts us with 7 Days in Hell, the Wimbledon mock-doc starring Andy Samberg and Kit Harington, and Tour de Pharmacy, also starring Samberg and Orlando Bloom. Now, it's Walton Goggins' turn to put those damn fine comedy skills to use in John Bronco. The teaser trailer previews the mockumentary short which will follow the rise and fall of titular, infamous, and very fictional Ford …...

Who is John Bronco? He’s a world class racer, a rodeo star, a sex symbol and a legendary pitchman who’s face was instantly recognizable on the Ford Bronco and countless products — and he’s also Walton Goggins and never existed.

But that shouldn’t stop anyone from inflating his legend, as the new short film “John Bronco” aims to do. The mockumentary is the latest from Jake Szymanski, the director who told similarly fake sports legends in the films “Tour de Pharmacy” and “7 Days in Hell.”

“John Bronco” though is a different sort of fake sports icon, a 1966 legend whose jingle went triple-platinum and could be heard in ads for his own cologne, breakfast cereal, video game, action figure and more. The film describes him as the “very embodiment of the American dream, that is, until it all came crashing down.”

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Studio 8 has hired Jake Szymanski to direct an action comedy based on journalist Hudson Morgan’s misadventures in search of buried treasure in the Rocky Mountains.

In 2010, Forrest Fenn, an art dealer in New Mexico, announced he had buried a cache of gold and jewels in the Rocky Mountains — setting off a treasure hunt that attracted thousands. Last month, Fenn announced that a man who wished to remain anonymous had discovered the chest.

Morgan, a journalist turned comedy writer, will write the screenplay roughly based on his own experience in which a group of millennials set out after the treasure after their best friend disappears. That led to shouting matches, natural hazards, close calls with grizzlies, leaving the group with new appreciation for life, friendship and bear spray.

Studio 8’s Jeff Robinov, Guy Danella and John Graham will produce the film. The project is described as “The Goonies” meets “The Hangover.

Saturday Night Live and Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates director Jake Szymanski is set to direct Studio 8’s untitled action comedy inspired by writer Hudson Morgan’s misadventures while on a life-changing expedition with a group of friends all in search for Forrest Fenn’s buried treasure.

The wildly popular hunt attracted the likes and obsession of thousands, and recently made headlines last month upon its alleged discovery. The Fenn Treasure was a cache of gold and jewels that Forrest Fenn, an art dealer and author from Santa Fe, New Mexico who hid the stash in the Rocky Mountains.

Morgan, a former journalist turned comedy-writer, will write the screenplay roughly based on his own experience. Studio 8’s Jeff Robinov, Guy Danella and John Graham will produce.

The project billed as Goonies meets The Hangover follows a group of millennials who head to the Rocky Mountains after their best...

Studio 8 has tapped Tour de Pharmacy director Jake Szymanski to helm a buddy treasure hunt comedy now in development.

The indie project is inspired by writer Hudson Morgan’s misadventures while on a life-changing expedition with a group of friends searching for millionaire Forrest Fenn’s buried treasure of gold and diamonds. Morgan, a former journalist turned comedy-writer, is set to pen the screenplay, while Studio 8's Jeff Robinov, Guy Danella and John Graham will produce.

"Morgan’s personal quest for Forrest Fenn’s treasure is an already bizarre tale fit for the big screen. We’ve ...

Studio 8 has tapped Tour de Pharmacy director Jake Szymanski to helm a buddy treasure hunt comedy now in development.

The indie project is inspired by writer Hudson Morgan’s misadventures while on a life-changing expedition with a group of friends searching for millionaire Forrest Fenn’s buried treasure of gold and diamonds. Morgan, a former journalist turned comedy-writer, is set to pen the screenplay, while Studio 8's Jeff Robinov, Guy Danella and John Graham will produce.

"Morgan’s personal quest for Forrest Fenn’s treasure is an already bizarre tale fit for the big screen. We’ve ...