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Vietnamese American filmmaker Linh Tran’s debut feature Waiting for the Light to Change tells the story of five friends in their twenties who head to a beach house for a weeklong winter getaway. At the center of the group are Amy (Jin Park) and Kim (Joyce Ha), whose once-close friendship seems to be running out of fuel—especially now that Kim is dating Amy’s longtime secret crush, Jay (Sam Straley). As past regrets and resentments come to the surface, Amy and Kim wrestle with painful questions about whether their old selves fit into the new lives they’re trying to create for […]

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Vietnamese American filmmaker Linh Tran’s debut feature Waiting for the Light to Change tells the story of five friends in their twenties who head to a beach house for a weeklong winter getaway. At the center of the group are Amy (Jin Park) and Kim (Joyce Ha), whose once-close friendship seems to be running out of fuel—especially now that Kim is dating Amy’s longtime secret crush, Jay (Sam Straley). As past regrets and resentments come to the surface, Amy and Kim wrestle with painful questions about whether their old selves fit into the new lives they’re trying to create for […]

The post “Limit Yourself to Three Setups Per Scene”: Linh Tran on Slamdance Award-Winner Waiting for the Light to Change first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

Chicago – The title is the perfect statement on this debut feature film from writer/director Lihn Tran. “Waiting for the Light to Change” is about a group of post collegiate friends who are wondering what is next for their lives during a vacation together. The film release – through Video On Demand and DVD – is October 20th, 2023.

The film is about transition, as friends in their mid twenties gather for a week long vacation at a Lake Michigan beachside home. The main character is Amy, who has gone through a dramatic weight loss, and finds herself wrestling between loyalty she feels for her best friend Kim and her attraction to Kim’s new boyfriend. The cast is Asian American, but the issues are universal. What does “being adult” mean when there is that point in your twenties when decisions need to be made?

’Waiting for the Light to Change,’ Written/Directed...

Network: Fox

Episodes: 27 (half-hour)

Seasons: Two

TV show dates: March 17, 2022 -- February 2, 2023

Series status: Cancelled

Performers include: Seann William Scott, Chelsea Holmes, Sam Straley, Taylor Ortega, Krystal Smith, Aya Cash, and Justin Linville.

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A mockumentary comedy series, the Welcome to Flatch TV show is based on the BBC format, This Country, by Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper.

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In its first season, Welcome to Flatch attracted low ratings and was reportedly only renewed because producer Lionsgate was willing to make a really good deal. Will the comedy's numbers improve in season two? Will Welcome to Flatch be cancelled or renewed for season three on Fox? Stay tuned. *Status Update Below.

A mockumentary comedy series, the Welcome to Flatch TV show stars Holmes, Sam Straley, Seann William Scott, Aya Cash, Jaime Pressly, Taylor Ortega, Krystal Smith, and Justin Linville. When a documentary crew sets out to explore the lives, dreams, and concerns of residents in a small American town, they stumble upon the midwestern town of Flatch. The community is made up of many eccentric personalities that include Joseph "Father Joe" Binghoffer (Scott); cousins and best friends Kelly Mallet (Holmes) and Lloyd "Shrub" Mallet (Straley); Flatch Historical Society operator Nadine Garcia-Parney (Ortega); magnetic force-of-nature Mandy Matthews...

Barb is looking to shake up the town in the second season of Fox's Welcome to Flatch TV show. As we all know, Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Welcome to Flatch is cancelled or renewed for season three. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the second season episodes of Welcome to Flatch here. *Status Update Below.

A Fox mockumentary comedy series, the Welcome to Flatch TV show stars Holmes, Sam Straley, Seann William Scott, Aya Cash, Jaime Pressly, Taylor Ortega, Krystal Smith, and Justin Linville. When a documentary crew sets out to explore the lives, dreams, and concerns of residents in a small American town, they stumble...

The residents of a certain small town are moving on. Fox has cancelled Welcome to Flatch so there won't be a third season. The second season finished airing in February.

A mockumentary comedy series, the Welcome to Flatch TV show stars Holmes, Sam Straley, Seann William Scott, Aya Cash, Jaime Pressly, Taylor Ortega, Krystal Smith, and Justin Linville. When a documentary crew sets out to explore the lives, dreams, and concerns of residents in a small American town, they stumble upon the midwestern town of Flatch. The community is made up of many eccentric personalities that include Joseph "Father Joe" Binghoffer (Scott); cousins and best friends Kelly Mallet (Holmes) and Lloyd "Shrub" Mallet (Straley); Flatch Historical Society operator Nadine Garcia-Parney (Ortega); magnetic force-of-nature Mandy Matthews (Smith); local newspaper editor Cheryl Peterson (Cash); and Shrub’s frenemy, Mickey St. Jean...

Fox will not be moving ahead with “Welcome to Flatch” Season 3.

“While audience response was not as strong as we had hoped, we were thrilled with the creativity of the enormously talented Jenny Bicks and Paul Feig, as well as the outstanding, dedicated cast and crew they assembled,” a Fox spokesperson told TheWrap. “We look forward to collaborating with them again in the future and are thankful for all of our partners at Lionsgate, Jenny’s Perkins Street Productions, Paul’s Feigco Entertainment, BBC Studios’ Angie Stephenson and Charlie Cooper and Daisy May Cooper.”

Shortly after the WGA strike started in May, Fox announced updates for its scripted series. The only two series the network hadn’t made an announcement about were “Welcome to Flatch” and “HouseBroken,” both of which were up for a third season.

“You can expect some announcements as soon as the strike ends,” president of scripted...

Fox is further paring down its live action comedy roster.

The network has canceled Welcome to Flatch after two seasons. The mockumentary series, created by Jenny Bicks and based on the BBC series This Country, finished its second season in February. The series also counts Paul Feig among its executive producers.

“While audience response was not as strong as we had hoped, we were thrilled with the creativity of the enormously talented Jenny Bicks and Paul Feig, as well as the outstanding, dedicated cast and crew they assembled,” Fox said in a statement. “We look forward to collaborating with them again in the future and are thankful for all of our partners at Lionsgate, Jenny’s Perkins Street Productions, Paul’s Feigco Entertainment, BBC Studios’ Angie Stephenson, and Charlie Cooper and Daisy May Cooper.”

Welcome to Flatch follows the eccentric residents of a small Ohio town, centered on two cousins...

Fox has canceled the comedy series “Welcome to Flatch” after two seasons, Variety has learned.

The mockumentary series aired its final episode on Fox on Feb. 2, with that now serving as the series finale. The show was inspired by the British format “This Country.”

“The comedy ‘Welcome to Flatch’ will not be returning to Fox for a third season,” Fox said in a statement. “While audience response was not as strong as we had hoped, we were thrilled with the creativity of the enormously talented Jenny Bicks and Paul Feig, as well as the outstanding, dedicated cast and crew they assembled. We look forward to collaborating with them again in the future and are thankful for all of our partners at Lionsgate, Jenny’s Perkins Street Productions, Paul’s Feigco Entertainment, BBC Studios’ Angie Stephenson, and Charlie Cooper and Daisy May Cooper.”

The logline for Season 2 states, “The documentary crew...

Flatch is no longer a welcoming place.

Fox has canceled comedy Welcome To Flatch after two seasons.

“While audience response was not as strong as we had hoped, we were thrilled with the creativity of the enormously talented Jenny Bicks and Paul Feig, as well as the outstanding, dedicated cast and crew they assembled. We look forward to collaborating with them again in the future and are thankful for all of our partners at Lionsgate, Jenny’s Perkins Street Productions, Paul’s Feigco Entertainment, BBC Studios’ Angie Stephenson, and Charlie Cooper and Daisy May Cooper,” a Fox spokesperson said.

It’s not a surprise given that the U.S. remake of cult British comedy This Country was on the bubble.

The series followed a documentary crew that sets out to explore the lives of residents in the small American town of Flatch.

It starred Holmes, who plays Kelly Mallet, Sam Straley,...

Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, has set theatrical and digital release dates for Linh Tran’s debut film Waiting For The Light To Change.

The 2023 Slamdance Grand Jury Prize winner for Best Narrative Feature will be available to rent/own on all digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms in North America, as well as on DVD, starting on October 20 through Freestyle Digital Media. Prior to the October 20 digital release date, two limited week-long theatrical engagements are scheduled for the film in New York and Chicago.

Waiting For The Light to Change takes place over the course of a week-long beachside getaway. Set over several days in and around a lake house in Michigan, the film follows five twenty-somethings who gather for a small getaway in the early spring. But with little to do in the small, lakeside town, everyone...

Linh Tran, the director of Waiting For The Light To Change, has signed with Rain Management in all areas.

Waiting For The Light To Change, which earned the 2023 Slamdance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature, follows five twentysomethings gathering for a weeklong spring getaway at a lake house in Michigan. With little to do in the small town, a malaise settles over the young people as they talk growing older, establishing careers and finding a purpose in life, while also revealing past regrets and anxieties over what the future might hold.

Sam Straley, Eric Barrientos, Qun Chi, Joyce Ha and Jin Park star in Tran’s film, which she co-wrote with Jewells Santos and Delia Van Praag. Jake Rotger, Santos and Straley share the producer credits, while James Choi executive produced.

Waiting For The Light To Change premiered at the Heartland International Film Festival, then screened at...

Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, has acquired North American VOD rights to the dramatic feature film Waiting for the Light to Change — the 2023 Slamdance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner for Best Narrative Feature.

The pic premiered at the Heartland International Film Festival in October, screened at the Chicago Critics Film Festival in May and just had its West Coast premiere in Los Angeles at Dances With Films this week. Freestyle Digital Media is planning a fall release date. Watch the new trailer below.

Waiting for the Light to Change follows five twentysomethings who gather for a weeklong spring getaway at a lake house in Michigan. But with little to do in the small town, everyone finds themselves dealing with the sort of malaise that happens in one’s early- to mid-20s: growing older, establishing a career, finding a purpose in life,...

Things aren’t looking great for Fox comedy Welcome To Flatch.

The series, which is a remake of British comedy This Country, was the only live-action series that the network hasn’t made a decision on and it take a while.

Michael Thorn, President of Scripted Programming, Fox Entertainment, said that “launching our next great live action comedy is a top priority, so you can expect some announcements as soon as the strike ends”.

Welcome To Flatch, which comes from Jenny Bicks and Paul Feig, has aired for two seasons on Fox with its second season finishing in February.

The series, which stars Sean William Scott, Holmes, Sam Straley and Aya Cash, is produced by Lionsgate, BBC Studios’ LA production arm and Fox Entertainment.

When asked about a renewal decision on Flatch, Thorn pointed to the renewal of Joel McHale-fronted Animal Control for a second season. “Right now we...

The five characters in Linh Tran’s Waiting for the Light to Change come together in awkward fashion, some reuniting and others meeting for the first time at a lake house in Michigan at the tail end of winter. What’s supposed to be a fun getaway starts on the wrong foot: they can’t find the house key upon arriving, the water’s too cold to swim or boat in, and there’s nothing to do in the small town; accordingly most of their time is spent indoors or wandering around the cold, windy shore nearby. That isolation makes for a rich starting point to Tran’s strong, confident debut feature, in which she uses her ensemble to explore the anxiety, despair, and sadness that can hang over one’s 20s while building a life and career.

Details about each character come to light soon after they settle in.

Just starting its second season, Welcome to Flatch is the perfect example of a show fit for those after dinner-blues.

It's quick and witty and will make you heavily consider moving to Ohio in search of a life outside the city.

Fox's somewhat new mockumentary isn't anything tv hasn't seen before, but its storytelling and compelling cast create a show perfect for the casual viewer to tune in every week and enjoy.

The show follows several characters, including two cousins, Kelly Mallet (Chelsea Holmes) and Lloyd Mallet (Shrub), played by Sam Straley, as they talk to a 'documentary crew' about their daily lives and try to become internet famous.

The two are described as childish and immature for their age, proving several times throughout the series that just because a town may seem like it doesn't have a lot going on, they're always wreaking havoc on something.

While following Kelly and Shrub,...

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A new character is spicing things up. Has the Welcome to Flatch TV show been cancelled or renewed for a third season on Fox? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Welcome to Flatch, season three. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?  

What's This TV Show About?

Airing on the Fox television network, the Welcome to Flatch TV show stars Holmes, Sam Straley, Seann William Scott, Aya Cash, Jaime Pressly, Taylor Ortega, Krystal Smith, and Justin Linville. When a documentary crew sets out to explore the lives, dreams, and concerns of residents in a small American town, they stumble upon the midwestern town of Flatch. The community is made up...

Vulture Watch

A new character is spicing things up. Has the Welcome to Flatch TV show been cancelled or renewed for a third season on Fox? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Welcome to Flatch, season three. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?  

What's This TV Show About?

Airing on the Fox television network, the Welcome to Flatch TV show stars Holmes, Sam Straley, Seann William Scott, Aya Cash, Jaime Pressly, Taylor Ortega, Krystal Smith, and Justin Linville. When a documentary crew sets out to explore the lives, dreams, and concerns of residents in a small American town, they stumble upon the midwestern town of Flatch. The community is made up...

My Name Is Earl alum Jaime Pressly is heading to the fictional town of Flatch, Ohio, as the Emmy-winner has been cast in the upcoming second season of Fox‘s Welcome to Flatch. According to Variety, Pressly will play Barb Flatch, a realtor who returns to her hometown after a messy divorce. “She believes in second chances and wants to give Flatch the glow up it deserves, one margarita at a time,” reads the logline description of the character. Season 2 is set to premiere on Thursday, September 29 at 9 pm Et. Welcome to Flatch was developed by Jenny Bicks (The Big C) and is a mockumentary focused on the eccentric residents of the small Ohio town. It stars Chelsea Holmes, Sam Straley (The Dropout), Seann William Scott (American Pie), Aya Cash (You’re The Worst), Justin Linville, Taylor Ortega (Succession), and Krystal Smith. Pressly is best known for playing Joy Turner on...

Emmy winner Jaime Pressly (Mom) has joined the cast of Fox’s comedy series Welcome To Flatch as a series regular for its upcoming second season. She will play a new character named Barb Flatch.

Pressly’s casting stems from the Season 2 pitch by showrunner Jenny Bicks for a major new character to be played by a big-name talent who would join Welcome To Flatch‘s established star, Seann William Scott, as well as the series’ up-and-coming cast. That pitch, along with a restructuring of lead studio Lionsgate TV’s original deal for the show, clinched Welcome To Flatch a Season 2 renewal despite modest linear ratings.

Barb Flatch (Pressly) grew up a Flatch, in Flatch. She has returned to her hometown after a bad divorce to start a new chapter as the town’s realtor. She believes in second chances and wants to give Flatch the glow up it deserves,...

Emmy winner Jaime Pressly (“My Name is Earl”) is moving into another small TV town. Pressly has been added to the cast of Fox’s “Welcome to Flatch” as it returns for a second season. She will play Barb Flatch, a Realtor who returns to her hometown after a bad divorce.

“She believes in second chances and wants to give Flatch the glow up it deserves, one margarita at a time,” per the logline description of Pressly’s character. “Welcome to Flatch” returns for its Season 2 on Thursday, Sept. 29 at 9 p.m. Et.

Pressly joins a cast that includes comedian Holmes, Sam Straley (“The Dropout”), Seann William Scott (“American Pie”), Aya Cash (“You’re The Worst”), Justin Linville, Taylor Ortega (“Succession”) and Krystal Smith. “Welcome to Flatch” is a mockumentary that revolves around the quirky and eccentric citizens of the small Midwestern town Flatch, Ohio.

Pressly most recently starred as Jill...

In recent years, the global TV landscape has been shaken up by some of the most talented, British and Irish female auteurs to have braced this planet.

The likes of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Michaela Coel have wowed audiences around the world, lending new credence to the term “authenticity” and forging disruptive shows that have little influence from outside forces.

Perhaps a less obvious candidate to fit within this bracket is BAFTA-winning This Country creator and star Daisy May Cooper, but with the BBC/HBO’s Rain Dogs, BBC One’s Am I Being Unreasonable? heading to Mipcom and a second season of Fox’s This Country remake Welcome to Flatch hitting screens soon, Cooper’s U.S star is on the rise and the Coel/Waller-Bridge comparisons are percolating.

The 35-year-old is as down-to-earth as they come. Born in the small British town of Cirencester, Gloucestershire, the Irishwoman speaks to...

Emmy-nominated writer, director and producer Paul Feig had an absolute banner year, being behind two successful nascent TV series, HBO Max’s period comedy “Minx” and Fox’s docu-style sitcom “Welcome to Flatch” — both of which premiered on the same day, March 17. He serves as an executive producer on both series and additionally as a writer and director on “Welcome to Flatch.” “I want everything to be of good nature,” he tells Gold Derby in a new webchat. “The message has to be: ‘People are great, you’re going to get by, you can win, you can beat the system occasionally’ — but it also [has to be] realistic.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.

Set in 1970s Los Angeles, “Minx” follows Joyce Prigger (Ophelia Lovibond), an earnest young feminist who joins forces with a low-rent publisher (Jake Johnson) as her last resort to get her anti-patriarch publication onto the world. Together with said publisher Doug,...

Who is the strangest resident we'll meet in the first season of the Welcome to Flatch TV show on Fox? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Welcome to Flatch is cancelled or renewed for season two. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the first season episodes of Welcome to Flatch here. Status Update Below.

A Fox mockumentary comedy series, the Welcome to Flatch TV show stars Seann William Scott, Chelsea Holmes, Sam Straley, Taylor Ortega, Krystal Smith, Aya Cash, and Justin Linville. When a documentary crew sets out to explore the lives, dreams, and concerns of residents in a small American town, they stumble upon...

Fox's other live-action comedies have struggled in the ratings this season. The network released most of the season's episodes online ahead of their linear airings so it seems like Fox isn't expecting much traction. Will Welcome to Flatch be a surprise hit and be renewed for season two, or, will it be cancelled instead? Stay tuned. Status Update Below.

A mockumentary comedy series, the Welcome to Flatch TV show stars Seann William Scott, Chelsea Holmes, Sam Straley, Taylor Ortega, Krystal Smith, Aya Cash, and Justin Linville. When a documentary crew sets out to explore the lives, dreams, and concerns of residents in a small American town, they stumble upon the midwestern town of Flatch. The community is made up of many eccentric personalities that include Joseph "Father Joe" Binghoffer (Scott), Kelly Mallet (Holmes), Lloyd "Shrub" Mallet (Straley), Nadine...

Kelly, Shrub, and the other residents of a certain small town are getting a second chance. Fox has renewed the low-rated  Welcome to Flatch TV series for a second season. The first season will conclude on May 26th.

A mockumentary comedy series from Jenny Bicks and Paul Feig, the Welcome to Flatch TV show stars Seann William Scott, Chelsea Holmes, Sam Straley, Taylor Ortega, Krystal Smith, Aya Cash, and Justin Linville. When a documentary crew sets out to explore the lives, dreams, and concerns of residents in a small American town, they stumble upon the midwestern town of Flatch. The community is made up of many eccentric personalities that include Joseph "Father Joe" Binghoffer (Scott), Kelly Mallet (Holmes), Lloyd "Shrub" Mallet (Straley), Nadine Garcia-Parney (Ortega), Mandy Matthews (Smith), Cheryl Peterson (Cash), and Mickey St. Jean (Linville). It's a...

The residents of Flatch will remain on Fox. The network has picked up a second season of comedy Welcome to Flatch, which comes from Jenny Bicks and Paul Feig.

It’s a slight surprise given the linear ratings of the show, which is based on British format This Country. Deadline understands that Lionsgate was keen to make a deal and made it appealing to Fox. There are thought to be plans for some new cast for season two.

Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier said that the network “bets on creators” and called Bicks and Feig “incredible” partners.

Michael Thorn, President of Entertainment at the network, added that there was a real “passion” for the show at the network. “We decided to do what you always ask us to do, focus on the passion projects,” he added. “We see great promise in the show.”

Welcome to Flatch has been somewhat of a test case for Fox.

The Paul Feig-produced comedy “Welcome to Flatch” has been renewed for Season 2 at Fox, Variety has learned.

Inspired by BBC Studios’ BAFTA-winning BBC format “This Country,” “Welcome to Flatch” is told through the lens of a documentary crew exploring the lives of residents of the midwestern town of Flatch. The crew finds worthy subjects in young-adult cousins and best friends Kelly Mallet and Lloyd “Shrub” Mallet (Sam Straley) who let the production in on their lives and local current events.

The rest of the key players in “Welcome to Flatch” include Joseph “Father Joe” Binghoffer (Seann William Scott), the local minister who tries to guide Kelly and Shrub, and his former girlfriend, Cheryl Peterson (Aya Cash), who is the editor of the local newspaper, the Flatch Patriot, as well as Shrub’s obsessive friend Mickey St. Jean (newcomer Justin Linville), Kelly’s frenemy and the head of the Flatch Historical Society,...

Fox has given the greenlight for more of comedies “Call Me Kat” and “Welcome to Flatch.”

The news comes shortly before Fox is scheduled to give its presentation to advertisers at Upfronts on Monday afternoon. “Call Me Kat” will head into Season 3 for the 2022-2023 television season, while “Welcome to Flatch” gets a Season 2.

“Call Me Kat” is based on the British series “Miranda,” which was created by Miranda Hart. It stars Mayim Bialik as an optimistic and fun-loving woman continuously defying societal expectations, and her mother’s wishes, to prove she can live a happy and fulfilling life on her own terms. Her first move? Using her entire savings to open a cat café in Louisville, Ky.

“Call Me Kat” is produced by That’s Wonderful Productions, Sad Clown Productions and BBC Studios’ Los Angeles production arm in association with Warner Bros. Television and Fox Entertainment.

Alissa Neubauer is the showrunner and executive producer.

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Will viewers want to keep visiting this town?  Has the Welcome to Flatch TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on Fox? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Welcome to Flatch, 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?

Airing on the Fox television network, the Welcome to Flatch TV show stars Seann William Scott, Chelsea Holmes, Sam Straley, Taylor Ortega, Krystal Smith, Aya Cash, and Justin Linville. When a documentary crew sets out to explore the lives, dreams, and concerns of residents in a small American town, they stumble upon the midwestern town of Flatch. The community is made up of...

Welcome to Flatch, where you should call everyone Kat lest you be judged by Robin Thicke. If that didn’t make any sense, this will: a Welcome to Flatch and Call Me Kat crossover is coming to Fox featuring The Masked Singer judge. The crossover event will air April 28 at 9 pm Et on Fox and will feature Welcome to Flatch characters appearing in the Mayim Bialik sitcom. Thicke will appear as himself in the 30-minute episode, fittingly titled “Call Me Flatch,” Variety reports. Welcome to Flatch stars Holmes (Kelly) and Sam Straley (Shrub) will represent the new Fox comedy, which will feature Kelly and Shrub leaving “their hometown of Flatch, Ohio, for a trip and stop by Kat’s Cat Café in Louisville, Kentucky. They rent Kat’s (Mayim Bialik) apartment, above the café, while they are in town,” according to the episode description. Thicke will be headlining a ...

This is peak synergy: “Call Me Kat” is crossing over with fellow Fox comedy “Welcome to Flatch” in an upcoming episode of the series that will also feature “The Masked Singer” panelist Robin Thicke, Variety has learned exclusively.

Airing April 28 at 9 p.m., the Mayim Bialik-led sitcom will feature characters from its lead-out mockumentary show “Welcome to Flatch,” which debuted March 17 on Fox at 9:30 p.m. and that same day launched half of its first season of Hulu and other digital platforms. The half-hour will also include a guest spot from Thicke, who is playing himself.

Per the network’s official description for the “Call Me Kat” episode, which is titled “Call Me Flatch,” “Kelly (Holmes) and Shrub (Sam Straley), from ‘Welcome to Flatch,’ leave their hometown of Flatch, Ohio, for a trip and stop by Kat’s Cat Café in Louisville, Kentucky. They rent Kat’s (Mayim Bialik) apartment,...

Calling all The Office and Parks and Rec fans! Director Paul Feig‘s newest project Welcome to Flatch follows a documentary crew as they set out to study small-town America. When they arrive in Flatch, Ohio, they meet Kelly and Shrub Mallet, two cousins who become the subjects of the project. The hilarious mockumentary mixes humor with drama, and fans of […]

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Flatch, Ohio is an exciting, vibrant place to live—at least according to the right people. Troublemaking cousins and BFFs Kelly Mallet, played by Holmes (they/them), and Lloyd “Shrub” Mallet (The Kids Are Alright‘s Sam Straley) love their small midwestern hometown highlighted in Fox’s new mockumentary sitcom, Welcome to Flatch. Holmes’ Kelly is confident, athletic, and a wannabe businesswoman. “There’s no one like her,” Holmes says. “I would also say that she’s a little bit of a coconut…she’s hard on the exterior, but if you really know her like Shrub does, she’s a real big softie.” Shrub, meanwhile, is the yin to her yang. “He is super sensitive,” Straley says. “He’s an artistic soul without the means to express it always, and I think that can lead to some frustrations and some anger.” He adds: “I would [also] say he’s the...

If you ask Holmes, being funny is just about the only thing she/they are good at. The comedian, who stars in Fox’s “Welcome to Flatch,” has wanted to make people laugh since they first saw Jim Carrey star in “Liar, Liar” in the fifth grade.

“I feel like deep down I always knew that I wanted to be a performer, but it’s like a really embarrassing thing to say out loud because so a few people get to do it,” Holmes told TheWrap.

Of course, the path to here and now hasn’t been without its ups and downs. In fact, when Holmes first arrived at Florida State University ready to pursue art, Holmes quickly became convinced they weren’t actually very good at comedy at all.

“I actually auditioned for this sketch comedy troupe, and they like called me back and then they didn’t let me in,...

At this point, it’s pretty well understood that developing American TV adaptations of British comedies is essentially playing with fire. There’s an approach to comedy across the pond that often gets lost in translation — not just in colloquialisms but also in execution and rhythms. It’s why a U.K. to U.S. adaptation like “Coupling” (which was adapted by NBC in 2003) was such a colossal failure, despite certain episodes being a near word-for-word remake of the original British series. And why the American version of “The Office” took a full season to find its footing.

Fox’s new comedy “Welcome to Flatch,” an American adaptation of the British mockumentary “This Country,” is nowhere near the misfire that a show like NBC’s “Coupling” was, but it’s also definitely nowhere near the success that the American version of “The Office” came to be.

Developed by executive producer Jenny Bicks,...

Small towns have always been great fodder for comedy. Consider Gilmore Girls’ Stars Hollow or the title location of Schitt’s Creek. Yet Fox’s new mockumentary-style sitcom about Flatch, a fictitious middle-of-nowhere Ohio town with 1,526 people, operates on the premise that these places are unbearably boring. Young adults Kelly (Chelsea Holmes) and Shrub (Sam Straley) are our primary tour guides in Welcome to Flatch, a series that revolves around these so-called “walking disappointments”—two-dimensional cousins and best friends bonded by their lack of smarts, steady jobs and other friends—instead of the more colorful characters that usually populate sitcoms. It’s not as if the show isn’t good for the occasional chuckle: Aya Cash stands out as local newswoman Cheryl, whose can-do attitude propels her to track down the town sign when it is stolen by neighboring rivals in Pockton. But mostly Flatch wallows in bleakness, consumed by...

The most interesting thing about the new comedy “Welcome to Flatch” just might be the way in which Fox is rolling it out. While the pilot episode will premiere March 17 on the broadcast network before airing weekly, the first seven (7!) episodes will also be available to stream on FoxNow and Hulu earlier that same day, thus giving curious viewers a chance to marathon half the season well before those who keep tuning in the traditional way.

It might seem an odd approach at first glance, but the vast majority of comedies have always needed a few episodes to figure out the particular rhythms of their dialogue and cast chemistry — something “Welcome to Flatch” director Paul Feig knows well enough, having come in to “The Office” at the beginning of Season 2, right as the eventual smash hit was really beginning to gel. So if Fox wants to find a new way...

Fox hopes to greet a big audience with its new small-town docu-comedy “Welcome to Flatch” when the Paul Feig and Jenny Bicks-produced show launches later this week. But if “Flatch” doesn’t bring in the viewers with its linear premiere on Thursday at 9:30 p.m., Fox execs won’t be talking about cutting the mockumentary from the network’s midseason lineup Friday morning.

That’s because the broadcast network is launching the first half of the 14-episode Season 1 via Hulu and other digital platforms at midnight on Thursday, and promises it’s not going to be giving much weight to “Welcome to Flatch’s” Live + Same Day Nielsen ratings over those first seven weeks of airing, when the episodes will all be available for streaming well before they rollout weekly on Fox. The network hopes its patience and the rollout’s risk will be rewarded with “Welcome to Flatch...

Fox is launching mockumentary comedy Welcome To Flatch on March 17 and will drop the first seven episodes on Hulu.

It’s an unusual move for a linear broadcast network and something that director and exec producer Paul Feig called “unbelievable”. “To come up with this idea for a network show is unheard of. People don’t latch on to a show until they can binge it,” he said during a Deadline moderated panel session at SXSW in Austin, Texas.

The series, which comes from showrunner and exec producer Jenny Bicks and Feig, is based on BBC Three comedy This Country and follows a documentary crew that sets out to explore the lives of residents in the small American town of Flatch.

Michael Thorn, president of Fox Entertainment, said that the team behind the series, which is produced by Lionsgate, BBC Studios and Fox Entertainment, was up for a new approach.

“There’s not a lot going on in Flatch,” says star Seann William Scott, who plays minister Joseph “Father Joe” Binghoffer. And he’s not wrong. The Midwestern town at the center of Fox’s new Welcome to Flatch, premiering Thursday, March 17, is purposely uneventful, though. The show is the perfect portrait of that sometimes idyllic small-town life and includes all of that life’s colorful characters. And they are indeed colorful. In the exclusive clip above, meet the eccentric Flatchians, who have agreed to appear in a documentary about their midwestern lives in the half-hour comedy inspired by BBC Studios’ BAFTA-winning This Country. This series, from Jenny Bicks (Sex and the City) and Paul Feig (Freaks and Geeks), centers around destructive best friends and cousins—confident Kelly Mallet (Chelsea Holmes) and artistic Lloyd “Shrub” Mallet (Sam Straley)—who actually find the town of Flatch to be endlessly fascinating. “To some people,...

Hulu released the first trailer for “The Dropout,” a dramatic portrayal of the life, career and downfall of Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, played by Amanda Seyfried.

Premiering on March 3, the series will follow Holmes as she drops out of Stanford University to found Theranos, her fraudulent Silicon Valley blood testing startup that was once hailed as revolutionary. On Jan. 3, a federal jury in San Jose found Holmes guilty on four counts of fraud.

Naveen Andrews will play Holmes’ former business partner Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, who faces trial separately later this year. The series also features a jam-packed cast playing recurring roles, including William H. Macy, Laurie Metcalf, Elizabeth Marvel, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Kate Burton, Stephen Fry, Michel Gill, Michael Ironside, Bill Irwin, Dylan Minnette, Alan Ruck, Sam Waterston and Josh Pais.

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Fox’s new comedy Welcome to Flatch will stream its first seven episodes on-demand on the same day of its linear launch.

The linear network will premiere the comedy, which is based on British mockumentary This Country, on Thursday March 17 at 9:30pm. The show, which comes from Jenny Bicks and Paul Feig, will roll out its first seven episodes via Hulu as well as Fox Now.

It marks the first time that Fox has done this.

Michael Thorn, president of entertainment at Fox, said, “It’s obvious right now that it’s incredibly hard to launch any TV show in this marketplace and we want to do everything we can to set the show up for success. What we wanted to do was take advantage of our own air and give it the impactful launch that we give to all of our shows but also try something different and...

Fox will debut the first half of Season 1 of its new Paul Feig-produced comedy series “Welcome to Flatch” on digital platforms hours ahead of the show’s linear debut on the broadcast network.

Episodes 1-7 of the half-hour docu-comedy will become available for streaming on Hulu, Fox Now and On Demand at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, March 17. That same day, the series premiere of “Welcome to Flatch” will air at 9:30 p.m. on Fox.

The first season of “Welcome to Flatch” consists of 14 episodes, which have already wrapped production. So Fox’s decision to put the first seven episodes up on digital platforms on Day 1 means that viewers will have the ability to binge the first half of the entire season before it even premieres, an unprecedented programming move by the broadcaster.

Per the show’s logline, “When a documentary crew sets out to explore the lives...

Malachi Kirby (Small Axe, Roots) will be pulling double duty in Amazon Prime’s Anansi Boys series adaptation from writer/executive producer Neil Gaiman, our sister site Variety reports.

Kirby will play both Charlie Nancy and his brother, Spider. After Charlie’s estranged father, Mr. Nancy, dies, he discovers that his dad was the trickster god of stories, Anansi. He also learns that he has a brother, Spider, who makes Charlie’s life more interesting, but also more dangerous. As previously reported, Delroy Lindo (The Good Fight) will star as Anansi/Mr. Nancy.

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LisaGay Hamilton (To Kill A Mockingbird), Michaela Watkins (Werewolves Within), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (NOS4A2), Kevin Sussman (The Big Bang Theory), Sam Straley (Hala) and Shaun J. Brown are set for recurring roles opposite Amanda Seyfried in The Dropout, Hulu’s limited series about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. The series hails from Liz Meriwether, Searchlight Television and Disney Television Studios’ 20th Television.

Created and executive produced by Meriwether, who also serves as showrunner, The Dropout is based on the ABC News/ABC Radio podcast. Holmes (Seyfried), the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos, was lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation. Once worth billions of dollars, the myth crumbled when it was revealed that none of the tech actually worked, putting thousands of people’s health in grave danger. Money. Romance. Tragedy. Deception. The story of Holmes and Theranos is...

Joining the ranks of hit British shows to be turned into American hits such as “The Office” and “Queer As Folk,” Fox will present a new comedy “Welcome to Flatch,” inspired by the BAFTA-winning hit BBC comedy “This Country.” Sporting less theatrical “Waiting for Guffman” vibes with a healthy dose of “Trailer Park Boys,” the half-hour comedy will attempt to take the TV mockumentary by storm. Find the newly released first trailer below.

Here is the official synopsis from Fox: “When a documentary crew sets out to explore the lives of residents in a small American town – their dreams, their concerns – they stumble upon the midwestern town of Flatch, which is made up of many eccentric personalities. It’s a place you want to visit and maybe even stay. If there was a decent motel. Which there is not.”

“Welcome to Flatch” is written and executive-produced by Emmy Award winner...

Fox has announced its 2021-22 schedule, and it includes a string of new shows.

We already know the network's plans for next season, and now we have some trailers to get an early look at some of the new shows.

We have two dramas and two comedies for you to check out!

The Big Leap

The Big Leap is a modern tale about second chances, chasing your dreams, and taking back what’s yours.

From creator/executive producer Liz Heldens, director/executive producer Jason Winer (Modern Family), and executive producer Sue Naegle (The Plot Against America), the show revolves around a group of diverse, down-on-their-luck characters attempting to change their lives by participating in a potentially life-ruining reality dance show that builds to a live production of Swan Lake.

Inspired by a U.K. reality format, The Big Leap is an innovative show-within-a-show that takes viewers on a journey of...

Fox is bucking the trend of franchise lineups. On the heels of NBC unveiling One Chicago Wednesday and Law & Order Thursday on their fall schedule and following the success of ABC’s pairing of Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19 and CBS’ block of FBI and FBI: Most Wanted, Fox has opted to (temporarily) split its 9-1-1 series.

Flagship 9-1-1 will remain the Monday 8 Pm anchor but offshoot 9-1-1: Lone Star, which has followed it this season, will not be part of Fox’s fall schedule; it will fill in for the mothership in midseason. Here is the lineup, followed by a brief analysis and description of Fox’s new scripted and unscripted series for next season.

Fox Fall 2021 Schedule

(New programs in Upper Case)

(All Times Et/Pt)

Monday

8-9 Pm — 9-1-1

9-10 Pm — The Big Leap

Tuesday

8-9 Pm — The Resident

9-10 Pm...