Whoopi Goldberg's documentary honoring the iconic comedienne Moms Mabley will make its television debut on HBO in November. The project made an impressive showing in April at the Tribeca Film Festival. Goldberg had funded the project using the popular crowd-funding website,...
Will CNN president Jeff Zucker truly shake things up at the 24-hour news channel by inserting a comedy news show? That's the word on the street since New York Post's Page 6 said over the weekend that CNN might be developing a show in the style of The Daily Show when Bill Weir...
Comedienne Ellen DeGeneres is getting back into the sitcom game. The daytime talk show host is in development with NBC to executive produce a multi-camera sitcom with a lesbian lead character. The untitled project centers on a lesbian and her straight male best friend who get...
Into the Wild actor Emile Hirsch has been cast as the legendary John Belushi in the upcoming untitled biopic from Steve Conrad. The movie will focus on the heights of Belushi's fame, so expect to see Hirsch in the Blues Brothers suit and Animal House toga. Covering his...
We are sad to report that Emmy Award-winning actress Marcia Wallace passed away this weekend. Wallace is best known for her role on the 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and, more recently, her voice as crude elementary school teacher Edna Krabappel on The Simpsons. Wallace...
Last night marked the premiere of The Pete Holmes Show on TBS. The new late-night talk show was fun, playful, and full of moments where Pete Holmes "breaks" and laughs at himself. He admitted during his opening monologue, which was more stand-up than making fun of newspaper...
Comedian Steve Harvey will stay on broadcast television through 2015. Stations around the country have agreed to renew the long-running hit game show Family Feud. Since Harvey took over as host of the game show that pits family against family in 2010, ratings have increased...
You might not have to stay up for the Late Late Show to catch Craig Ferguson anymore. The Scottish-born talk show host has been signed to host a new syndicated game show next fall. In a string of recent celebrity-driven game shows, Celebrity Name Game is based on the popular...
CBS is bringing one of its oldest sitcoms back to the airwaves this winter. The eyeball ntwork will air two classic episodes of I Love Lucky on Friday, Dec.20. It will broadcast "The Christmas Episode" followed by the infamous grape stomping episode "Lucy's Italian Movie." One...
