30 Rock star Tracy Morgan will continue his dominance in the comedy world this September, by taping his first HBO stand-up comedy special at famed Apollo Theater in New York. The filming, which will g...
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When HBO canceled Lucky Louie almost four years ago, Louis C.K. thought he’d never have a better job again. He’d had near complete artistic freedom to create the show, and a good relationship with...
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Ricky Gervais will star in the next series of Curb Your Enthusiasm, he confirmed today. Earlier this year, creator Larry David revealed that he had asked The Office creator to be in the show’s eight series – and now his casting has been confirmed.
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He equated it to human death, which does not always have a dramatic hospital bed good-bye to loved ones. "Sometimes people just have heart attacks and die," he said. "There's no closure." As for whether the upcoming eighth season on HBO will be the final season or not, he said he doesn't know. David generally decides at the end of the season whether to sign up for another.
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‘This will be the third time we’ve been paid for this shit,’ Ricky Gervais admits. ‘It is money for old rope.’
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The new owners of the TV Guide Network believed they had found just the right show to send the message that the channel was getting into the business of broadcasting programs instead of listing them: Larry David’s HBO comedy “Curb Your Enthusiasm”.
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"Here was our approach. We have a similar approach to the website. I know who I wanted to work with, but once they were out the door, they'd pitch me different projects and I'd say no or yes, but once they were out the door. I wrote the host segments. But the pieces themselves are fairly autonomous and they're how the people wanted them."
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Showtime has picked up to series that pilot created and written by Groundlings comedy troupe member Darlene Hunt and starring 3-time Oscar nominee Laura Linney as a suburban wife and mother recently diagnosed with cancer. The 1/2-hour dark comedy is now called The Big C and will air for 13 episodes.
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HBO's online schedule finally has a home for the 10 half-hours, which has turned into 12 weeks according to what HBO tells me, of new sketch comedy on TV thanks to Funny or Die, in their series Funny or Die Presents. It all premieres at midnight Friday on Feb. 19 (or, technically, 12:00:01 a.m. Feb. 20).
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Sad news today for fans of HBO shows about middling New Zealand folk-pop duos adrift in the United States: on Thursday, Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, who comprise the comedy-music group Flight of the Conchords, officially announced that they would not pursue a third season of their self-titled HBO show.
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