Chicken Soup For The Soul acquires Crackle from Sony

This is not an April Fool’s joke. Chicken Soup For The Soul Entertainment, a streaming service in its own right, is taking on Sony’s assets from its streaming service, Crackle, and creating a joint venture called, well, Crackle Plus. OK. It…

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Gavin & Stacey remake Us & Them will finally air five years later on Crackle

Us & Them, the FOX sitcom that adapted James Corden and Ruth Jones’s British hit Gavin & Stacey, only to never air as part of its planned 2013-2014 season, will finally see the light of viewers screens thanks to Crackle. Sony owns Crackle, and Sony Pictures TV made seven episodes of Us & Them in […]

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Rob Riggle will take over a Jet Ski Academy for new Crackle comedy series

Crackle announced it’s taking on Rob Riggle’s Jet Ski Academy, a new original comedy series with eight episodes following Riggle’s investment in the academy. Riggle will write and EP the series, as well as star in it. “Crackle is the perfect home for my Jet Ski Academy,” said Riggle. “We have big plans for this brilliant new […]

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Chevy Chase Comedy ‘Federal Offense’ Is Heading to Crackle

Last year it was reported that Chevy Chase signed on to star in a movie called Federal Offense, and now the comedy has found a home. Variety reports that Sony’s streaming service Crackle has acquired exclusive rights to the movie, which centers on “three best friends who lose a drug kingpin’s stash before finding themselves […]

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Episode #178: Mark Feuerstein

Mark Feuerstein co-created, produces and stars in the new CBS sitcom 9JKL, which is loosely based on his real-life experience moving back to NYC to live next to his parents and brother while starring for eight seasons on the USA drama Royal Pains. Feuerstein began acting as a student and classmate of mine at Princeton […]

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Truth in Comedy with Jay Mohr

The morning I talked to Jay Mohr he had just returned from fishing in the ocean: “I am drunk on catching perch with a spinning lure.” He spoke about how he used to fish with his father as a child and how he recently returned to the sport, often bringing his own son along. “It’s […]

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Watch Lewis Black join Jerry Seinfeld on “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”

On the next episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Jerry Seinfeld and Lewis Black cruise around Brooklyn in a… MORE

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Jerry Seinfeld jumps to Netflix with “Comedians In Cars” and two new stand-up specials

It’s a bloodbath of the streaming kind, or something like that. Just the other day we were breaking down how… MORE

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Netflix nabs Seinfeld for new stand-up special plus new seasons of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

Netflix has new stand-up specials already this month from Jen Kirkman, Jim Gaffigan, Neal Brennan, Cristela Alonzo and Bill Burr, with specials forthcoming in 2017 from Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Amy Schumer and Louis C.K., who taped his over the weekend in D.C. So why not Jerry Seinfeld, too!?! Netflix announced a deal late today […]

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Watch a sneak peek of Cedric the Entertainer on “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”

On the next episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Jerry Seinfeld picks up Cedric the Entertainer in his robe… MORE

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