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Exclusive: Hulu is continuing to double down on laughs with its latest stand-up series Lol Live.

Lol Live, which will feature ten, 30-minute sets from a range of comics, comes from Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat and premieres on June 6.

Comedians featured include SNL’s Devon Walker, Chico Bean, Brandi Denise, Chinedu Unaka, Daphnique Springs, Justin Silva, Lea’h Sampson, Malik B, Sydnee Washington, and the late Ken Flores.

Flores’s performance marks the first longform special ever taped by the comedian and was filmed shortly before he died in January at the age of 28.

The streamer will roll out two new specials each month; Flores and Springs will kick off the run, followed by Bean and Unaka on July 11, Walker and Washington on August 15, Denise and Malik B on September 5, and Silva and Sampson on October 3.

The sets were filmed last summer during Hartbeat Weekend at Resorts World Las Vegas.

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Film Liaisons in California Statewide (Flics) has announced winners for the 28th annual California on Location Awards (COLAs), presented Friday at the Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City.

More than 650 supporters of California-based productions attended this year’s awards ceremony, which recognizes exceptional location managers and teams, public employees, and production companies that help facilitate on-location filming across the Golden State.

Netflix’s upcoming Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley took home Location Manager of the Year (Dan Cooley) and Location Team of the Year awards in the Studio Feature category.

The Independent Feature category was similarly swept by The Greatest Hits, which clinched awards for Location Manager (Justin Hill) and Location Team.

For the Television Episodic 1-Hour category, top honors went to Daisy Jones & The Six for Location Manager (Jay Traynor) and Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty for Location Team.

Episodic ½-Hour Location Manager honors went to...

The forthcoming Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley, independent film The Greatest Hits and limited series Daisy Jones & The Six were among the top winners at the 2023 California On Location Awards, presented Friday.

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley received awards for location manager of the year (Dan Cooley) and location team of the year in the studio feature category. In the independent feature category, The Greatest Hits received awards for location manager (Justin Hill) and location team. Daisy Jones & The Six location manager Jay Traynor won in the television episodic one-hour category. In the same category, Winning Time won for location team. Daisy Jones‘ second award went to assistant location manager Courtney Ochoa.

Other noteworthy projects represented among the winners include High Desert (Stacey Brashear) and Minx (location team), both in the episodic half-hour location manager category. And Joker: Folie à Deux‘s Sheila Ryan-Cruz was named assistant location manager of the year – feature.

Yvonne Orji has set a new comedy special at HBO, Variety has learned exclusively. “Yvonne Orji: A Whole Me” will premiere Oct. 1 at 10 p.m. on HBO before streaming on HBO Max.

Written and performed by Orji and shot in downtown Los Angeles, the special focuses on her evolving thoughts on friendship, dating, adulting and why guys need better friends — all of which she discusses in therapy. With a mix of stand-up and scripted vignettes, she offers her point of view on issues such as the pandemic and estate planning, as well as being the child of Nigerian immigrants and the brutal realities of dating.

This is Orji’s second stand-up special at HBO, following up on 2020’s “Mama, I Made It!” She is best known for playing Molly in HBO’s “Insecure,” which earned her an Emmy nomination in 2020. She hosted Amazon Prime Video’s year-in-review comedy special “Yearly Departed...

In the age of peak TV, it can be overwhelming to even contemplate indulging in any more media content. On the other hand, with episodes clocking in at an average of eight minutes, a web series is a far less ominous commitment than anything else on your binge watching list. In a post “High Maintenance” and “Insecure” world, more and more creators are using the web to deliver inventive entertainment, and many filmmakers are using the medium to push beyond conventional narrative structures.

In the Gotham Award-nominated web series “The F Word,” filmmaker Nicole Opper lovingly documented her parenthood journey with her wife Kristan, transforming the complicated and often painful foster-to-adopt process into a creative and playful docu-series. A sensitive story sprinkled with plenty of joy, the couple’s humor and intimacy makes for gripping viewing. The series came out in 2017, so it wasn’t eligible for this list, but...

In the new season of Insecure, Yvonne Orji’s Molly is having quite a year. She’s single. She’s has a new job. She went to Coachella. Everything seems to be going Ok for her, but when you focus in on the character, things aren’t exactly the best…but they aren’t the worst. Molly is just living her life and doing some major adulting right now — and Orji came by the New Hollywood Podcast to unpack all of it. Well, not all of it, but most of it.

A stand-up comedian, actress and a child of Nigerian immigrants, Orji is spiritually inclined. Even though that doesn’t exactly match up with Molly’s morals, Orji says that it comes with being an actor and working to be your authentic self. During our conversation, she talked about being spiritual in Hollywood and how it has affected her career.