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Chrissy Teigen is taking her love for true crime even further. The 35-year-old cookbook author will be cohosting a special episode of the popular True Crime Obsessed podcast alongside hosts Patrick Hinds and Gillian Pensavalle on March 25. In an exclusive clip of the upcoming episode, Chrissy is joined by John Legend as they debunk a wild conspiracy theory about them being part of the Illuminati.

"We are the most boring people on the planet!" Chrissy exclaimed, adding: "It started so long ago, like we were in Hong Kong and our plane turning back around was the root of it. . . . I tweeted through the whole thing because I was like, 'This is amazing!' And then it became, 'Oh, Chrissy is being arrested finally.'" John then explained that there's a theory floating around that all the stars that are part of the Illuminati are getting secretly arrested,...

Ahead of six brand new episodes of “Unsolved Mysteries” coming to Netflix on October 19, we’ve learned today that hosts Patrick Hinds and Gillian Pensavalle and their true crime podcast True Crime Obsessed are taking on the renowned “Unsolved Mysteries” franchise with a new, weekly spinoff podcast beginning this October. The new 12-episode series, part of True Crime Obsessed, will launch […]...

'True Crime Obsessed,' the hit podcast recapping true crime documentaries with signature hilarity and sass, has announceda historic show at the Hayes Theater, marking the first time in history a podcast has performed live on Broadway. Co-hosts Patrick Hinds and Gillian Pensavalle are bringing their true crimecomedy podcast live to the stage for one memory-making night, recapping the documentary 'Frank Serpico' - the 2017 documentary that features former NYPD officer Frank Serpico telling the story, in his own words, of his one-man crusade for police reform in the early 1970s.

Jack Conte, the co-founder of Patreon, is launching a new endowment fund that will give creators -- of any following size or location -- what amounts to a year’s salary, so that they can focus on the act of creation full-time.

Cheekily dubbed Super Patron: A Creator Arts Endowment F*ck Yeah!, the initiative was inspired by author Harper Lee -- who received a gift of a year's wages from friends telling her to write whatever she wanted, which ultimately became To Kill A Mockingbird -- and was started with $1 million worth of Patreon’s stock. That said, Super Patron is a separate initiative from Patreon itself, and is a 501c3 non-profit.

Applications are open now, and the recipient of the first grant -- for $50,000 -- will be announced in December. Recipients will be selected by a committee consisting of comedian and Patreon investor Hannibal Burress, veteran YouTuber Grace Helbig,...

Earlier this week, one of the theatre community's most beloved podcasts, 'The Hamilcast' celebrated two years of episodes. En route to becoming 'the official unofficial podcast of Hamilton,' the show's creator, host, and producer Gillian Pensavalle has released more than 100 episodes, which include conversations with many of the show's performers and creators, in-depth discussions of the Ron Chernow biography that inspired the musical, and an epic, four-part October sit-down with creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, appropriately dubbed Lintoberfest.

Season 2 of the hit web-comedy The Residuals will debut exclusively on BroadwayWorld on June, 16th. The show, from husband and wife team Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensavalle, takes a look at the funny, often times bizarre, world of commercial auditions. In addition to the entire first season cast returning, Season 2 will feature guest starsHoratio Sanz Saturday Night Live, Jenna Leigh Green Wicked, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, and Michael Torpey Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, hundreds of commercials.

Season 2 of the hit web-comedy The Residuals will debut exclusively on BroadwayWorld on June, 16th. The show, from husband and wife team Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensavalle, takes a look at the funny, often times bizarre, world of commercial auditions. In addition to the entire first season cast returning, Season 2 will feature guest starsHoratio Sanz Saturday Night Live, Jenna Leigh Green Wicked, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, and Michael Torpey Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, hundreds of commercials.

Season 2 of the hit web-comedy The Residuals will debut exclusively on BroadwayWorld on June, 16th. The show, from husband and wife team Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensavalle, takes a look at the funny, often times bizarre, world of commercial auditions. In addition to the entire first season cast returning, Season 2 will feature guest starsHoratio Sanz Saturday Night Live, Jenna Leigh Green Wicked, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, and Michael Torpey Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, hundreds of commercials.

Recently, the That'll Play Podcast with Matt Candela and John Nuzzi tookthe show to Broadway for their first live episode from the New York Institute of Technology in Manhattan Matt and Johnreturned to their alma mater to chat with Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensavalle about the upcoming second seasonof The Residuals, which will deubt exclusively on BroadwayWorld next month.

Season 2 of the hit web-comedy The Residulas will debut exclusively on BroadwayWorld onJune, 16th. Theshow, from husband and wife team Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensavalle, takes a look at the funny, often times bizarre, world of commercial auditions. In addition to the entire first season cast returning,Season 2 will featureguest stars Horatio Sanz Saturday Night Live, Jenna Leigh Green Wicked, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, and Michael Torpey Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, hundreds of commercials.

In October, BroadwayWorld's webseries partner The Residuals completed a successful 20,000 KickStarter campaign to help fund their second season. Soon after, husband and wife co-creators Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensavalle began shooting Season Two which will guest star Saturday Night Live's Horatio Sanz and Wicked and Sabrina, The Teenage Witch's Jenna Leigh Green. Currently, Pensavalle, who serves as the series' editor, is neck deep in footage, but she took some time earlier this week to update the show's supporters...

After a successful KickStarter campaign, the hit web comedy The Residuals has wrapped on its second season, which will debut exclusively on BroadwayWorld early in 2015. The series, created by and starring husband and wife Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensavalle, focuses on the unusual world of auditioning for commercials. Season Two features all of the kooky characters from the first season, and will feature Broadway's Jenna Leigh Green Wicked, TV's Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, Saturday Night Live's Horatio Sanz, and commercial icon Michael Torpey.

The latest episode of That'll Play with Matt amp John, 'Commercial Appeal', features Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensavalle, the husband-and-wife team and co-creators of The Residuals, BroadwayWorld's newest webseries partner. The couple stops by That'll Play to discuss their hit web series in promotion of season two, which will be released exclusively on BroadwayWorld in 2015. Matt Candela and John Nuzzi chat with Michael and Gillian about the creative process of developing season one, their successful Kickstarter campaign, and exciting stories of the special guests that participated in the upcoming season of The Residuals.

The hysterical webseries, The Residuals, which will debut it's second season exclusively here on BroadwayWorld in 2015, is currently in the final two days of their Season Two KickStarter campaign. One of their KickStarter rewards, allows the contributor to select any song for creators Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensavalle to sing in a 'Dareoke.' For this one, they are singning 'Jackson' by Johnny Cash and June Carter. Check out the videos below, and there's still time to get your own Dareoke in before Tuesday night at 1159pm.

For one of their KickStarter rewards, creators Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensavalle are thanking their supporters in a pretty unusual way. They are making videos for KickStarter contributors that include classic jokes from a 70-year-old joke book edited by Eddie Cantor. Now where else are you going to get that kind of 'Thank You' And let's be honest, Gillian's reactions are just as funny as the jokes themselves. Check out some of these videos below.

Project Name: The Residuals Asking For: $20,000 Kickstarter Amount Raised Thus Far (At Time Of Post): $9,076 Days Remaining In Campaign (At Time Of Post): 9 Description: The Residuals is a web series about actors. That sentence alone could apply to dozens of independent web series released in the past year alone, but The Residuals aims for something higher by centering on characters who aren't quite good enough. When I wrote about the series for Tubefilter's Indie Spotlight, I discussed the ways in which its characters--from the protagonists looking for simple commercial work, to the perfectionist casting directors, to the horde of anonymous tryhards hoping to land a big role, to the web series creators with no good sketch ideas--all reflect how difficult it is to get your name out there. What I'm trying to say is that I liked it. Now, creators Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensavalle are trying to make a second season,...

BroadwayWorld's newest webseries parternship The Residuals is in the middle of a month long KickStarter campaign to make their second season the best it can be. To help raise awareness for the campaign, the show's co-creator and star, Gillian Pensavalle, is reprising her old Monday night bar shift at Planet Rose in New York City 219 Avenue A Frnt 2, New York, New York 10009...

It's the perfect time to catch up with 'The Residuals,' the hilarious New York City based comedic web series set in the world of television commercials and auditions. Created by and starring husband-and-wife team Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensavalle, 'The Residuals' is inspired by their experiences as actors auditioning for commercials in New York City. Season One episodes average about 7 minutes and give viewers an inside view at the bizarre world of auditions, callbacks, costume fittings and commercial shoots. The second season of the critically acclaimed comedy series' is coming soon to BroadwayWorld.com...

Another web series has added to the growing number of comedies about struggling actors, but unlike many of its contemporaries, it seems to be fully aware of its common premise. The Residuals, created by the husband-and-wife team of Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensavalle, follows its protagonists as they apply for commercial work alongside a horde of unqualified actors. In the first episode of The Residuals, Pete (played by Smith) goes to an audition for a pharmaceutical company, only to be paired with a dramatic over-actor who tanks his chance of scoring the role. The competing actors in The Residuals are like the townspeople in Parks and Recreation: They're an easy source of humor, but they also represent an industry where everyone wants to be the hero. This theme, intentionally or not, also relates to the series as a whole and its position in the crowded word of web series about struggling actors.

What qualities are required to make a successful web series on a shoe-string budget Are they the same qualities required to make a successful marriage Well, last year, newly-weds Michael Paul Smith and Gillian Pensavalle decided to find out. The two actors had been in the business for years when they decided to combine their creative talents and the product turned out to be The Residuals, a comedic web series about the perils of auditioning for commercials.