Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Are Heading Out on Tour
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are hitting the road. The famed duo has announced their first-ever live tour together, comically titled The Restless Leg Tour. It will feature a limited run of shows this spring, with the Saturday Night Live vets sharing stories and jokes rooted in their 30 years of friendship. “If this tour […]
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TFC Taps Sugar23 Exec to Spearhead Production Arm (Exclusive)
TFC has recruited Sugar23’s Kelly Wu to spearhead its production arm. The new division, TFC Productions, is an extension of the company’s ongoing management work, with TFC beginning to selectively produce alongside its clients. The boutique firm, which was co-founded by former WME partner David Stone and former UTA partner Ben Jacobson early in the […]
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Richard Plepler’s Eden Productions Recruits HBO Exec
Richard Plepler is recruiting from his past. His Eden Productions announced Thursday that it has entered in to an exclusive first-look deal with Ben Wasserstein, with whom Plepler worked at HBO. Wasserstein, who most recently served as a senior vp of original programming at the premium cable network, will remain on the west coast, where […]
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Inside the Implosion of Justin Roiland’s Animation Empire
On Jan. 9, Hulu debuted its animated comedy Koala Man, the latest installment in what was then Justin Roiland’s sprawling empire. An absurdist superhero series that features a voice cast with Hugh Jackman and Succession‘s Sarah Snook, the project seemed to cap off a particularly prolific period for its producer. In a matter of months, […]
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How Apple TV’s ‘Shrinking’ Creators Snagged Harrison Ford and Learned From ‘Ted Lasso’
Ten episodes into production of the Apple TV+ grief comedy Shrinking, co-creator Brett Goldstein insists the cast and crew were still asking, “How the fuck is Harrison Ford here?” In truth, Goldstein (aka Roy Kent of Ted Lasso) has often wondered it too, incredulous that the Indiana Jones star agreed to make his comedy debut […]
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WBTV Boss Channing Dungey on Navigating Regime Change, Inflated Budgets and Future of ‘Ted Lasso’
Channing Dungey spent her first two months at what was then simply Warner Media shadowing her predecessor, Peter Roth. She was coming off a short stint at Netflix, which followed a much longer stint at Disney, and Roth had two-plus decades of experience running television’s most prolific studio to impart. “I like to say I […]
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Howard Gordon on Fox Panic Over New Show ‘Accused,’ Making More ‘24’ and Being “A Writer of a Certain Age”
Howard Gordon has spent much of the pandemic consumed by his latest thriller, an anthology series titled Accused. The weekly collection of topical stories, where viewers come in knowing nothing about the featured crime or how the defendant ended up on trial, has him back at Fox — home to his earlier entries The X-Files […]
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Paramount+ Pivots ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ Marketing to Remove Wounds From Jeremy Renner’s Face
The Mayor of Kingstown boss has called the Paramount+ series “the most dangerous show on television,” but its marketing campaign is suddenly timid. Before series star Jeremy Renner was critically injured in a Jan. 1 snowplow accident, his character appeared in season two key art with a severely scuffed-up face. But now that the actor’s […]
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Gabourey Sidibe’s Phone Sex Comedy Scores Pilot Pickup From Onyx Collective
Onyx Collective is bulking up. The Disney-owned brand, which is expressly focused on programming from creators of color and other underrepresented voices, announced Saturday a pilot pickup for a Gabourey Sidibe comedy, tentatively titled 1266, and a straight-to-series order for a multi-party documentary series about Black Twitter. The latter is based on Jason Parham’s widely read […]
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‘The Jennifer Hudson Show’ Renewed for Season 2
Jennifer Hudson is staying put. Warner Bros. Discovery announced Wednesday that its freshman entry, The Jennifer Hudson Show, would be back on Fox TV Stations for a season two next fall. Hearst Television, along with other station partners, also renewed the Telepictures-produced series. With the freshly-minted EGOT as host, the syndicated show is said to […]
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Sherri Shepherd’s ‘Sherri’ Renewed for Two More Seasons
Sherri Shepherd’s eponymous talk show will live on. Fox Television Stations announced Wednesday that they’d be renewing Sherri for two more years, taking the series from Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury through the 2024-25 season. Shepherd’s path to this place was hardly ordinary, with the actress, comedian and former The View co-host initially asked to step in as […]
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David Nevins: The Paramount Global Chief’s Exit Interview
“Dear Team,” the October note from Paramount Global executive David Nevins began. “I’m writing this morning, so you hear this news from me … the time is right for me to step down from my post atop the premium group at the end of the year.” The decision was neither rash nor entirely unexpected. And […]
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