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‘Community’ defies death again, NBC renews cult fave for fifth season

‘Community’ defies death again, NBC renews cult fave for fifth season

By | May 11, 2013 at 3:28 pm | No comments

It's official, Human Beings. NBC has renewed Community! Our friends at Greendale will return to NBC for at least another season -- 13 episodes is what we're hearing -- thanks, in part, to the eight percent key demographic viewership increase during this past Thursday's season finale and in greater part to the nonstop fan support the show receives online, despite its more...


Read deleted scenes from the ‘Community’ season finale (Photos)

Read deleted scenes from the ‘Community’ season finale (Photos)

By | May 10, 2013 at 2:36 pm | No comments

During the West Coast feed of Community’s season four finale, show producer and writer Megan Ganz tweeted out pages of script that were deleted from the broadcast version of the episode. “We had to trim 6 minutes out of the final cut,” she explains. So, for your convenience, here’s a photoset of what she tweeted. You'll need to click on each thumbnail to view the more...


NBC renews ‘Parks and Rec’ and axes ‘Whitney,’ ’1600 Penn’ and two others (Updated)

NBC renews ‘Parks and Rec’ and axes ‘Whitney,’ ’1600 Penn’ and two others (Updated)

By | May 10, 2013 at 11:05 am | One comment

UPDATE: May 10, 8:36 pm ET -- Community has been officially renewed! However, The New Normal will not return for a second season on NBC. UPDATE: May 10, 5:55 pm ET -- Comedian John Mulaney's project did not get picked up, reports Deadline. The semi-autobiographical multi-camera pilot co-starred Elliott Gould, Martin Short, Nasim Pedrad, Griffin Newman, Seaton Smith and more...


Community recap: The darkest timeline, sort-of paintball and farewell (for now)

Community recap: The darkest timeline, sort-of paintball and farewell (for now)

By | May 10, 2013 at 6:31 am | No comments

You guys, it’s with mixed emotions that I come to you tonight (or today, depending on when you’re reading this. Maybe it’s 4 a.m. because you went out to quash—not squash, you guys; so many people thinks it’s squash, but it’s quash!—the desolation of an uncertain Community future). Let’s not dwell on the despair that is the (here’s hoping) temporary more...


NBC greenlights Sean Hayes series and two other new comedies (Updated)

NBC greenlights Sean Hayes series and two other new comedies (Updated)

By | May 9, 2013 at 4:56 pm | No comments

May 10, 12:50 pm ET -- NBC greenlighted a new series from Scrubs and Cougar Town creator Bill Lawrence, reports Deadline. It's called Undateable and it will star Chris D'Elia, who played opposite Whitney Cummings for two seasons of Whitney, which was canceled yesterday. MORE NBC SHOW NEWS HERE. ----- As we await tonight’s season-four finale of Community – and more...


Amy Poehler will produce new comedy series ‘Welcome to Sweden’

Amy Poehler will produce new comedy series ‘Welcome to Sweden’

By | May 9, 2013 at 2:38 pm | 3 comments

It turns out Amy Poehler is huge in Sweden. She and her brother Greg just sold a comedy series called Welcome to Sweden, which will air on TV4 in the Nordic nation. The show is part of the sibling’s newly launched production company Syskon, who’s mission is to develop half-hour comedies. The series is based on Greg’s life as an accountant in New York who ends up more...


Kristen Wiig and Fred Armisen deliver rollercoaster of emotions in SNL promo (Video)

Kristen Wiig and Fred Armisen deliver rollercoaster of emotions in SNL promo (Video)

By | May 8, 2013 at 3:19 pm | One comment

As if you don't know this already, Kristen Wiig is returning to Saturday Night Live for the first time since her emotional farewell almost exactly one year ago. She'll be hosting the show this weekend with musical guest Vampire Weekend. And so, here's a series of promos, wherein we find Wiig and Fred Armisen taking us all on an emotional journey. Check it out. Be more...


Rebel Wilson tells Jimmy Fallon how to audition for Michael Bay if you’re not a supermodel (Video)

Rebel Wilson tells Jimmy Fallon how to audition for Michael Bay if you’re not a supermodel (Video)

By | April 30, 2013 at 4:18 pm | 2 comments

In no way am I saying you should go out, buy a ticket and sit through Michael Bay's disaster that is Pain & Gain. However, it's well known at this point that Rebel Wilson is a funny actress and can certainly entertain a crowd. Last night she visited Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and the two had a pleasantly awkward conversation about the goat orifices and origin of goat's more...


Watch Conan O’Brien’s full speech from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Watch Conan O’Brien’s full speech from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

By | April 28, 2013 at 3:33 pm | No comments

Last night Conan O’Brien delivered a masterful 27-minute speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington D.C. With great joy (and a gavel), the late-night veteran’s barbs ranged in tone from light-hearted tributes to sharp commentary. It marked the second time O’Brien spoke at the event, the first of which went down in 1995. “It’s a big high more...