TNT has ordered a pilot of a late-night talk show hosted by Niecy Nash, the star of the network’s crime drama/dark comedy Claws. According to Deadline, Naked with Niecy Nash will be “decidedly unique” and feature Nash dishing out advice on sex, love, and relationships. Sue Murphy, who executive produced Chelsea…
It’s once again time to annihilate—I mean evaluate all the fun fall TV pilots that were on display at the Upfront presentations last week. It’s the time when networks get to preview their brightest and dumbest TV shows for media and advertisers and, thanks to the internet, we get to see and pan them as well.
Lena Waithe is working on another television series based on a comedy she wrote in 2009 about a queer black young woman’s coming of age.
The new CEO of budget airline company easyJet, Johan Lundgren, has taken a pay cut to match the salary of his female predecessor and announced a commitment to improving the gender gap at the company.
A fatal, frustrating scene serves as the turning point in the pilot episode of Showtime’s The Chi, setting up a domino of bad choices for its primary characters. A 16-year-old is shot and killed and, by that point in the story, we’ve come to know him, or at least we feel like we do. We know who killed him and who…
As our favorite shows begin their descent into the void (New Girl, Scandal, Girls), new shows are once again out here crying for approval. This year’s TV pilots—full of mostly white male leads and showrunners—include military dramas, medical dramas, Will & Grace and a Lucifer-produced Big Bang Theory spin-off we don’t…
Shonda Rhimes, a woman with an indestructible ability to make zippy, soapy television, is bringing her special touch to yet another show —a Grey’s Anatomy spin-off featuring the firefighters of Seattle.
On Saturday, passengers boarded United flight 455 in Austin, Texas and, as is custom, seated themselves and awaited departure to San Francisco, California. But banal events took a turn for the unsettling: a pilot in plainclothes appeared, took hold of an intercom, and delivered a troubling rant.
Mindy Kaling is in Ocean’s Eight and A Wrinkle In Time and working with Emma Thompson on something mysterious and likely very good. Tina Fey is also undoubtedly very busy. But they just don’t stop.
Showtime has ordered a pair of series that might be worth checking out: a Chicago-based show created by Lena Waithe and a comedian-based series from Jamie Foxx starring Jay Pharoah.
Piper Perabo doesn’t command much attention these days. You might, however, remember her moment in the early aughts when she starred as Violet Sanford in Coyote Ugly (2000) and as Rachel in the sweet lesbian romantic comedy Imagine Me & You (2005). She’s still making movies, but ABC has enlisted her for a small-screen…
“Is it weird that this is not at all what I expected?”
Pilots for the upcoming 2016-17 TV season include three shows involving time travel, one about an adult woman with an imaginary friend and another starring a talking dog. This could possibly be the weirdest and greatest collection of shows in the history of TV.
You can take the girl out of fictional local government, but you can’t take the fictional local government out of the girl. Retta—who co-starred on all seven seasons of Parks and Recreation as Donna Meagle—has been cast in Hail Mary, a new ABC sitcom about a mayor (Casey Wilson) who fakes a miracle to get her town…
Deadline is reporting something that seems both completely inevitable and totally impossible: Jill Soloway is directing and executive producing a half-hour pilot based on I Love Dick, Chris Kraus’s canonically experimental memoir-fiction hybrid, which was published by Semiotext(e) in 1997.
Amy Poehler and Rashida Jones, who both starred on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, are returning to the network with two new comedies. According to the Hollywood Reporter, NBC has ordered pilots for two shows executively produced by both women.
Since giving a pilot order to the new Nancy Drew-themed television series, CBS has released more details about its premise, reports Variety. Simply titled, Drew, the show will turn the iconic girl detective into a 30-something who “investigates and solves crimes using her uncanny observational skills, all while…
Six months ago, Harrison Ford crashed a World War II plane on Los Angeles golf course which was a monumental bummer. But, much like Star Wars, Ford is back—and now he’s restricting himself to crashing weddings.
...Or your present, depending on how old you are and what you consider the middle of life! Multiple outlets are reporting that after passing on People in New Jersey last year, a pilot starring Sarah Silverman, TOPHER GRACE and Patti Lupone, HBO has picked up another comedy from Silverman. This one is about a…
RIP the airline career of the Mexican pilot who allowed 23-year-old singer Esmeralda Ugalde and 19-year-old actress Samadhi Zendejas into the cockpit of his plane in the middle of a flight so they could (I'm guessing) fake-twiddle the knobs, use the PA system to tell all the passengers their refrigerators were…
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