By Dylan P. Gadino | October 12, 2012 at 11:57 pm | 14 comments
Seriously. What is going on at NBC? Earlier this week, the network announced that, despite scheduling and promoting the Oct. 19 premiere dates of Community and Whitney, the shows would not air as planned. And now we hear that Dane Cook's show Next Caller, set for a midseason...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | October 8, 2012 at 9:44 pm | 2 comments
Thousands of dedicated fans (humans) will not be happy to hear that, despite its official scheduling announcement in June and a trailer released in August hyping its fourth season, NBC has decided cult favorite Community will not return to the network on Oct. 19. The...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | October 5, 2012 at 4:59 pm | No comments
Comedian Tommy Johnagin has landed a television deal with NBC to develop a sitcom centered around his life as a not-yet-married, co-habitating new father. Johnagin would star in the show and will co-write the script with Mike Pennie, who's known mostly for his work on My Name Is...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | September 27, 2012 at 5:15 pm | No comments
After a fun chat with Ricky Gervais about how he performs stand-up all over the world and his appearance on Jerry Seinfeld’s new Web series and his new iPhone app, his forthcoming straight-to-Netflix dramedy show Derek and after an uncomfortably long tangent about pedophiles,...
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By Laughspin Staff | September 20, 2012 at 5:19 pm | No comments
We're only hours away from the premiere of the final season of The Office (9 pm ET), -- and NBC has promised some high-octane storylines and shenanigans -- and now we get this news: The mighty Stephen Colbert will guest star on the Oct. 25 Halloween episode!
According to...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | September 20, 2012 at 12:44 pm | No comments
It’s a big night for comedy, folks, as a trio of our favorite shows premiere tonight on NBC. The newcomer Up All Night with Will Arnett, Christina Applegate and Maya Rudolph is entering its sophomore season at 8:30 pm ET, The Office – in its ninth and final season –...
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By Laughspin Staff | September 14, 2012 at 3:20 pm | No comments
You probably know by now that our favorite group of Pawnee municipal employees take a trip to Washington D.C. on the new season of Parks and Recreation. Our main woman Leslie Knope is now officially a politician, after all-- having defeated the swarmy, in-it-because-he’s bored...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | September 14, 2012 at 11:29 am | 3 comments
One half of comedy's favorite television nerd bromance (Troy + Abed), Donald Glover, is producing a comedy series for NBC! It seems Glover -- also known as Childish Gambino in the hip-hop world -- is busying himself outside of the stand-up comedy world and playing Troy on...
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By Laughspin Staff | September 10, 2012 at 2:26 pm | 7 comments
A few weeks ago, we learned 20 staffers were laid off from the Tonight Show and that Jay Leno took a “tremendous” pay cut in order to prevent additional employee cuts. And now we know just how “tremendous” that cut was: 50 percent! The Wall Street Journal today reports...
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