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While the "Frasier" revival continues to give the impression that it should have been a one-off special, you can't fault the series for its guest appearances. The first season brought back several big names from the original sitcom, which ran from 1993 to 2004, including Peri Gilpin's Roz Doyle and Bebe Neuwirth's Lilith Sternin. What's more, it also featured some guest stars who weren't "Frasier" alums. The revival tapped modern sitcom royalty in the form of June Diane Raphael for one episode and even brought in a cartoon comedy king for another.

With season 2 of the "Frasier" revival, Peri Gilpin has returned on a recurring basis, and now the show is bringing in other guest stars to help bolster its existing ensemble. Kelsey Grammer's former "Back to You" co-star Patricia Heaton showed up at the top of the season, playing a bartender who seems oddly compatible with the titular...

Chicago – What better film to have a World Premiere in Chicago than local filmmaker Jon Silver’s “The Premiere,” happening at the Davis Theater in Chicago on August 27th (8pm). Art meets life in a wacky and poignant way for a director during the premiere day of his latest film. For tickets and deets, click The Premiere.

Shot on location at Chicago’s historic Music Box Theatre, Jacob (Grant Kennedy Lewis) is a young filmmaker facing numerous challenges during his debut movie premiere. Disaster looms at every turn, and as the clock ticks to the 90 minutes leading up to the premiere, his family argues, audience members complain, the popcorn machine breaks, and the movie file doesn’t work. All of these nuisances are exasperated by the rumored arrival of a famous actor. Jacob struggles to overcome doubt, all while fending off criticisms, expectations, and disturbing figments of his imagination.

World Premiere at Davis Theater Chicago,...

Is Frasier getting the entire Kacl gang back together?

Paramount+ has announced that original series vets Dan Butler and Edward Hibbert (who played Bob “Bulldog” Briscoe and Gil Chesterton, respectively) will reprise their roles in Season 2 of the sitcom revival.

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“Dan Butler and Edward Hibbert have made an indelible contribution to television,” series star/executive producer Kelsey Grammer said in a statement Tuesday. “I am...

Stephen Colbert is known for hosting The Late Show with Stephen Colbert since 2015. Taking over from legendary talk show host David Letterman, Colbert has brought his particular brand of humor to the table and has been successful at it. Colbert has also been nominated for the Emmys multiple times as the host of The Late Show.

Before he took over hosting duties from Letterman, Stephen Colbert was an actor who had produced sketch comedy series and was also a cast member of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. He has also featured in many TV shows in a supporting and voice role in shows such as The Office and The Simpsons. He recently spoke about his dream role as an actor and if he would ever get back to it.

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25 years ago “Strangers with Candy,” currently streaming on Paramount+, premiered on Comedy Central from the brains of Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Mitch Rouse, and Amy Sedaris. Sedaris also starred as Jerri Blank, the 46-year-old bisexual junkie returning to high school as a freshman. The sitcom was structured like an after-school special with Jerri rarely learning from her past mistakes as she navigates the lessons of being a teenager all over again. I began watching the show in college, after recognizing it from flipping through the TV channels because Sedaris’ Jerri in passing freaked me out.

Its psychotic humor coupled with my own favorite genre — the high school comedy — was a perfect cyanide comedy cocktail. Aggressively offensive with an earnest heart of gold, “Strangers with Candy” was unlike anything I’d ever seen before and Amy Sedaris became my comedy hero.

It’s, frankly, a miracle that “Strangers with Candy” was made,...

Exclusive: Multi-Emmy and Tony winner Judith Light is set to star opposite Billy Crystal in Apple TV+’s Before. Crystal also is executive producing the limited series, from Paramount TV Studios, which has tapped Adam Bernstein as director of the pilot episode.

Written by Sarah Thorp, Before is a 10-episode atmospheric, character-driven psychological thriller about Eli (Crystal), a child psychiatrist who, after recently losing his wife, Lynn (Light), encounters a troubled young boy who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli’s past.

Seductively enigmatic, Lynn (Light) is the love of Eli’s life, but her recent death may not be quite what it seems. As Eli digs deeper into the hidden life of the wife he thought he knew, he soon finds Lynn haunting him from beyond the grave.

Thorp serves as showrunner and executive produces with Crystal, Eric Roth, Bernstein and Jet Wilkinson. Bernstein succeeds as director...

Ariel Kavoussi, whose acting credits include Netflix’s “Maniac,” Prime Video’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and film “Catfight,” has wrapped her feature directorial debut “The Next Big One: A Comedy with Three Potential Problems.”

In this dystopian sci-fi black comedy, a high-ranking employee at an omnipotent tech firm must help her depressed, activist brother move into their aunt’s house while a hurricane threatens New York city. Principal photography wrapped in Brooklyn, New York. Kavoussi previously directed shorts and some TV.

The lead cast includes Molly Bernard (“Younger”), David H. Holmes (“The Penguin”), Deborah Rush (“Strangers with Candy”) and Kevin Corrigan (“The Get Down”).

The ensemble supporting cast includes Maria Dizzia (“Orange is the New Black”), Josh Pais (“The Dropout”), Paul Lazar (“Silence of the Lambs”), Max Casella (“Tulsa King”), Craig Bierko (“UnREAL”), Catherine Curtin (“Stranger Things”), Matt Walton (“No Hard Feelings”) and emerging stars Victoria Villier (2021 Fantasia Film...

Yabba-Dabba-Doo! Fox is rocking and rolling with The Flintstones spinoff Bedrock! According to Deadline, Fox is ordering a pilot presentation of the animated series, with an all-star cast set to take the Stone Age by storm! Being fitted for loincloths are Elizabeth Banks as Pebbles, the adult daughter of Fred and Wilma, Stephen Root as Fred, Amy Sedaris as Wilma, Nicole Byer as Betty, Jo Lo Truglio as Barney, and Manny Jacinto as Bam Bam. News about Fox’s Bedrock animated series dropped two years ago!

Designed for primetime, the Bedrock animated series is an adult comedy continuing the story of the Stone Age family. Deadline writes that Bedrock “catches up with the Flintstone family two decades later, with Fred on the brink of retirement and 20-something Pebbles embarking on her own career. As the Stone Age gives way to a shiny and enlightened new Bronze Age, the residents of...

Meet the new team running CBS’ “Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” It’s largely the same team that has been managing the late-night program for years.

Colbert tells Variety he has no plans to bring another executive producer on board at present after Chris Licht left to take over management of Warner Bros. Discovery’s CNN in the spring.

“I am always open to producing the show in the most efficient manner. Right now, everything feels fantastic,” says Colbert in an interview to discuss “Pickled,” a new comedy-sports special he has produced with Funny or Die for CBS. “I miss Chris dearly as my friend. I wouldn’t want to run CNN.”

In September, Matt Lappin was named a co-executive producer of “The Late Show,” working alongside two other co-EPs, Tanya Michnevich Bracco and Denise Rehrig. Lappin has worked with Colbert for more than 25 years, including on “Colbert Report” and...

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has promoted Matt Lappin.

Lappin becomes co-exec producer of the late-night CBS show. He was most recently senior supervising producer of the show.

The move will see him expand his responsibilities on the creative side of The Late Show alongside exec producer Tom Purcell. Lappin will continue to be part of the writing staff and will lead the team that produces the monologue and other comedy segments.

It is the first executive move on The Late Show since the departure of exec producer Chris Licht. Licht, who now runs CNN, oversaw the business and operational side of the show with Purcell overseeing the creative direction.

Lappin has been with The Late Show with Stephen Colbert since its launch in 2015 and has worked with Colbert for nearly 25 years. He first served as a writer on Comedy Central’s Strangers With Candy and then as a...

“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” has promoted Matt Lappin to serve as co-executive producer of the late night show. In his new role, Lappin will help oversee the show’s daily creative direction; his promotion was announced on Tuesday by executive producers Stephen Colbert and Tom Purcell.

Lappin was most recently senior supervising producer. As co-executive producer, he’ll be part of a team that also includes co-EPs Denise Rehrig, Tanya Michnevich Bracco, Barry Julien and Opus Moreschi. Together, they’re all helping Colbert and Purcell run the ship in the absence of former executive producer Chris Licht, who departed “The Late Show” earlier this year to take over CNN as its CEO.

As Variety wrote in February, there was no plan to immediately replace Licht, especially given the show’s solid roster of producers handling day-to-day duties.

While taking on more responsibilities in “The Late Show,” Lappin will...

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Veteran writer-producer Matt Lappin has been promoted to co-executive producer of CBS’ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

Lappin’s new role at the late-night show, which Colbert has hosted since 2015, was announced by EPs Colbert and Tom Purcell. He had been a senior supervising producer on the program, and also worked as a writer working on the show’s monologue and other comedy segments. Lappin will be expanding his creative responsibilities in the new role, while continuing to work with the writing staff.

Lappin has worked with Colbert for nearly 25 years, including working as a writer and producer on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, and as a writer on Strangers With Candy, which Colbert also acted in and developed with Amy Sedaris.

Lappin is the first major change in the late night show’s top producer ranks since EP Chris Licht...

Over the course of "She-Hulk: Attorney At Law," True Believers have been introduced to a number of interesting, obscure, and unforgettable characters. We have yet to meet Frog Man at this point in the show, but appearances from the Wrecking Crew, Titania, and Madisynn King (with Wongers) have certainly held us over until that day finally arrives. However, in the latest episode of the Disney+ series from Jessica Gao, the show makes the deepest cut to date and pulls out one of the most obtuse characters in all of the Marvel Universe and utilizes him in an absolutely hilarious way.

While Jennifer Walters is off at her high school friend's wedding, Nikki Ramos and Mallory Book are left to deal with a superhuman divorce case. Although, this assignment proves to be more difficult than anticipated when their client possesses the ability of immortality. So when it's revealed that he's a...

Ellen Pompeo is set to star in a limited series inspired by real events that has been ordered at Hulu, Variety has learned.

In the untitled show, a Midwestern couple adopts what they believe is an 8-year-old girl with a rare form of dwarfism. But as they begin to raise her alongside their three biological children, they slowly start to believe she may not be who she says she is. As they question her story, they’re confronted with hard questions of their own about the lengths they’re willing to go to defend themselves, falling into a battle that’s fought in the tabloids, the courtroom, and ultimately their marriage.

Hulu has given the series an eight-episode order. Katie Robbins is writing and executive producing, with Pompeo set to executive produce under her Calamity Jane production banner. Erin Levy will serve as showrunner and executive producer. Laura Holstein of...

Spare parts of high school comedies from “Peggy Sue Got Married” to “Mean Girls” and beyond have been torn asunder, then sewn back together to create “Senior Year.” In other words, this vehicle for producer-star Rebel Wilson isn’t organic even as a genre homage; its Frankensteinian assemblage always feels more imitative than inspired. Nonetheless, if Alex Hardcastle’s effortfully high-spirited Netflix feature isn’t exactly good, it’s still .

Introduced as “just some average boring invisible girl who had no friends” in 1999, Australian émigré Stephanie Conway (Angourie Rice) determines on her 14th birthday to start doing better. Three years hence, a methodical push toward popularity has paid off: She’s captain of the cheerleading squad, has assumed possession of the boyfriend, Blaine (Tyler Barnhardt), of deadly rival Tiffany (Ana Yi Puig), seems to have the prom queen crown sewn up and can afford not to even notice that both...

Peacock has released the first trailer for Season 2 of its original comedy series “Girls5eva,” which follows a ’90s girl group of the same name as they attempt to rise to pop star relevance once again.

The trailer picks up with the characters played by Sara Bareilles, Busy Phillips, Paula Pell and Renée Elise Goldsberry united behind a piano, ready to write an album that represents their own creative vision for the first time. The creative opportunity quickly shows that it has some strings attached, with a six-week deadline fast approaching.

“We wrote all the songs on the album, so that means, if everybody hates it, they hate you as a person on every level,” Phillips’ Summer tells her bandmates.

“We are officially in album mode,” Goldsberry’s Wickie announces.

The trailer also offers a peek at the bounty of guest stars joining the Peacock series for the upcoming season, which...

Peacock announced the newest slate of guest stars joining its original musical comedy series “Girls5eva” for Season 2.

The guest stars include Amber Ruffin (“The Amber Ruffin Show”), Chad L. Coleman, Drew and Jonathan Scott (“Property Brothers”), Heidi Gardner (“Saturday Night Live”), Hoda Kotb, Tim Meadows, Grey Henson, James Monroe Inglehart (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”), John Lutz, Judy Gold, Mario Cantone, Pat Battle (“NBC New York”) and Piter Marek. Previously announced new guest stars also include Amy Sedaris and Neil Flynn.

The new cast members will be joined by returning guest stars Andrew Rannels, Ashley Park (“Emily in Paris”), Daniel Breaker, Erika Henningsen (“Mean Girls the Musical”), Janine Brito (“Wine Country”), Jeremiah Craft, Jonathan Hadary and Julius Coneicao.

Season 2 of the comedy series follows a one-hit-wonder girl group from the 1990s that gets to give their dreams another shot. “Girls5eva” stars Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Paula Pell and Busy Philipps.

The...

Sean Astin will be a thorn in presidential candidate Dwayne Johnson’s side, with a recurring guest star role on NBC’s Young Rock.

Premiering Tuesday, March 15, the autobiographical sitcom’s sophomore run will continue the storylines from Season 1 while also introducing new chapters we haven’t yet seen.

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Astin will play Julian Echo, someone who long ago had run-ins with...

The breakout Peacock hit “Girls5Eva” is dialing up the funny for Season 2, adding veteran comedy actors Amy Sedaris and Neil Flynn.

Sitting down at Variety‘s SXSW Studio in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, series creator Meredith Scardino revealed that the beloved Sedaris and Flynn will star as the parents of Busy Philipps’ character Summer Dutkowsky — one of the members of the titular girl group fighting for a comeback.

Sedaris is best known for her iconic Comedy Central series “Strangers With Candy,” as well as dozens of memorable film and TV roles in work like “Broad City” and “Maid in Manhattan.” She was also Emmy-nominated for her crafting series “At Home With Amy Sedaris.”

Flynn co-led the long-running ABC sitcom “The Middle,” which earned him a Critics Choice nomination. He was also a recurring mainstay on “Scrubs.” His film credits include playing Lindsay Lohan’s father in “Mean Girls,” “Major League...

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There isn't enough money in the world that would make me want to return to my high school years, but for Rebel Wilson in "Senior Year," it's the only thing that could make her feel complete. Joining the ranks of "Never Been Kissed," "Billy Madison," "Hiding Out," "Strangers with Candy," and "21 Jump Street," the upcoming comedy "Senior Year" centers on an adult woman returning to her high school years, but compared to other films like it, there's...

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Even though “The Boss Baby” is based on a children’s book, the director of both the original and the sequel, Tom McGrath, leaned into his relationship with his own brother for the sequel. “We kind of lost touch, but I was always envious of him because he had two beautiful sons and a family and I never had kids,” McGrath tells Gold Derby in our Meet the Experts: Film Animation panel (watch the exclusive video interview above). In making these movies, he aimed to get a specific reaction from his brother. “At the first movie, I just wanted to make him cry, which worked and then this one, it was the same reaction.”

“The Boss Baby: Family Business” takes place with the two brothers from the first film, Ted (Alec Baldwin) and Tim (James Marsden), now grown up and estranged. They’re forced to reconnect when Tim’s baby daughter,...

Saturday Night Live‘s Chloe Fineman, Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s Jeff Garlin and The Middle‘s Troy Metcalf have joined Damien Chazelle’s 1920s Hollywood epic ensemble Babylon for Paramount.

The trio join Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Diego Calva, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, Katherine Waterston, Max Minghella, Lukas Haas, Flea, Rory Scovel, Samara Weaving, Eric Roberts, P.J. Byrne, Damon Gupton, Olivia Wilde, Spike Jonze, Phoebe Tonkin, Tobey Maguire and Jean Smart in the pic.

Oscar winner Chazelle is directing and also wrote the script, and Olivia Hamilton, Matt Plouffe and Marc Platt are producing. Tobey Maguire, Helen Estabrook and Adam Siegel are executive producing. Babylon is shooting in Santa Clarita, CA, and will hit theaters on December 24, 2022 and expand nationwide on January 6, 2023.

Fineman is a Groundlings alum who has been a featured player on Saturday Night Live since September 2019, known for her precise impersonations of Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman,...

Amy Sedaris‘ surreal variety satire will not be cooking up a fourth season, TVLine has learned exclusively from truTV.

The news comes just as Season 3 is about to land on HBO Max, on Wednesday, Jan. 20.

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At Home With Amy Sedaris ran for three seasons on truTV, with its last new episode airing July 29, 2020. On the series, Sedaris played a fictional version of herself as...

Pop Goes the Remake: Campanella Returns with Ghoulish Remake of Black Comedy

In the 2000s, the New Argentine Cinema gained international prominence thanks to a handful of filmmakers such as Fabian Bielinsky, Pablo Trapero and Lucrecia Martel, but it was Juan José Campanella and his Academy Award Win for Best Foreign Language Film with 2009’s The Secret in Their Eyes which would gain the most attention in the US.

Both before and after this distinction, Campanella was involved in a diverse array of American television in between film projects which make his interests difficult to peg.…...

CBS All Access is offering a whole lot more value for money starting today.

The streamer has added over 3,500 episodes from BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, and Smithsonian Channel.

This content infusion brings CBS All Access up to 20,000 Episodes and Movies in total.

Additionally, CBS All Access is adding a new Nickelodeon-Produced SpongeBob SquarePants Children's Series Kamp Koral in 2021.

ViacomCBS today announced a significant expansion of CBS All Access, n a major step toward transforming CBS All Access into a diversified super service for the company.

More than 3,500 episodes across ViacomCBS' leading portfolio of entertainment brands will now be available on CBS All Access.

The service also began rolling out a new user interface across all major device platforms today with enhanced personalization and discovery features, including advanced recommendations, curated homepages, new content categories and central hubs for ViacomCBS' brands to seamlessly find and explore content by brand.

"Today marks...

CBS All Access is looking to soak up some of SpongeBob SquarePants‘ success. The streaming service announced Thursday that it will be the exclusive home to the Kamp Koral, a CG-animated prequel series that follows 10-year-old SpongeBob to summer camp.

Previously intended for Nickelodeon, the first SpongeBob spinoff will instead bow as part of a rebranded CBS All Access, which is set to undergo a name change in 2021 as the streamer expands to include titles from across the ViacomCBS portfolio. All Access will also serve as the exclusive home to The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, whose theatrical release...

The “Spongebob” prequel series “Kamp Koral” is moving from Nickelodeon to CBS All Access, where it will debut next year as part of the rebranded service.

The series will see a 10-year-old SpongeBob during his summer at the eponymous camp. In the series, SpongeBob and his pals spend the summer building underwater campfires, catching wild jellyfish and swimming in Lake Yuckymuck at the craziest camp in the kelp forest, Kamp Koral. “SpongeBob SquarePants'” Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller will co-executive produce the prequel.

It won’t be a 2-dimensional cartoon like the flagship “SpongeBob.” It will instead be computer-generated animation. The move follows last month’s announcement that “The Spongebob Movie: Sponge on the Run” from Paramount and Nickelodeon Movies is skipping theaters and will premiere on premium Video On Demand, followed by a debut exclusively on CBS All Access early next year.

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“I think I’m… quite ready for another adventure!” -Bilbo Baggins

Ian Holm, esteemed knighted British actor and standout of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Alien, is dead at the age of 88, having succumbed to complications from Parkinson’s disease. Holm passed away in a London hospital peacefully near his family and caregiver, as his agent confirmed to The Guardian, referring to the late actor as “charming, kind and ferociously talented,” and that “we will miss him hugely.”

Holm stood as a peer amongst other knighted legends like Ian McKellen and Laurence Olivier, but he never saw himself as a marquee-dominating movie star type, having maintained the grounded approach of a working actor. It’s a conceit evidenced by the way in which he selected roles across his 60-year career on stage and screen, rarely revisiting thematically similar characters, lest he become typecast. However, it’s also the...

Ian Holm, the classically trained Shakespearean actor best known to film audiences for his performances in films including the “Lord of the Rings” and “Hobbit” movies, “Chariots of Fire” and “Alien,” has died. He was 88.

A rep for the actor has said Holm died in hospital on Friday morning. The actor had been battling Parkinson’s Disease for a number of years. However, as recently as January, Holm appeared in person to collect the Newport Beach Film Festival’s Icon Award in London.

Holm, who was celebrated for interpretations of most of the Shakespeare canon, including a towering “King Lear,” also excelled onstage in the original production of Harold Pinter’s “The Homecoming,” which he also brought to Broadway. He began working in films only midway through his career, debuting with an adaptation of his stage performance in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in 1968.

In later years, however, he worked increasingly...

For many the 1990s were the Age of Irony, with hipster cultural touchstones like Spy magazine and the TV show “Strangers With Candy” helping make snark the preferred flavor of the day. “The Simpsons” was also a big player in that area, yet arguably no cartoon series before had been quite so postmodern as “The Ren & Stimpy Show,” which premiered a couple years after it in 1991. While Matt Groening’s creation still chugs on decades later, way past its pop-phenomenon peak yet remaining a valuable Fox commodity, John Kricfalusi’s was short-lived — and his own control of it even shorter.

“Happy Happy Joy Joy” is both an homage to an inspired endeavor and a cautionary tale illustrating how even the greatest popular success can be brought down by unchecked ego, perfectionism and “artistic temperament” at the top. Feature debutants Ron Cicero and Kimo Easterwood’s documentary is a very...

Netflix’s prized pony is preparing to cross the finish line. The streaming service has released the official trailer for BoJack Horseman’s final eight episodes (aka Season 6 Part 2), which arrive on Friday, Jan. 31.

The trailer reacquaints us with a gray-haired (gray-maned?) BoJack, now a professor at Wesleyan University. He’s finally happy, or so he says. (Come on, true happiness? On this show? Good luck with that.)

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Is The Mandalorian possibly suffering a middle-of-first-season slump?

While The Mandalorian Season 1 Episode 5 is still cooler than much of what is on TV right now and made excellent use of its guests -- as well as some favorite Star Wars Universe planets, creatures, and droids -- it felt kind of filler-ish. 

And considering the Jedi baby is currently more popular in social media than any of the 2020 Democratic primary candidates, the episode sure did not spend much airtime on him.

But that's Ok, as many of us would rather The Mandalorian not be a cutesy kids' show over a glorious hormone-pumping Star Wars adventure.

So what's wrong with it, then? Well, the plot of "The Gunslinger" is just meh, and shows the series might need more than just random exploits on rad planets to stay as cool as it ought to be.

Yes, we hold The Mandalorian to a higher standard,...

Vying for the heart of Howard Stern co-host Robin Quivers isn’t for the weak. So “American Idol” alum Jackie Tohn, who stars in the Netflix wrestling comedy “Glow,” threw herself into the ring, recruiting Stern song parody veteran Eli Bradon for a pair of parodies that had Stern and his SiriusXM listeners in stitches.

Tohn’s two collaborations with Braden — raunchy love songs to Quivers set to Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s sultry duet of “Shallow” from “A Star is Born,” and a positively filthy take on Cher’s “Believe” — both received big praise from Stern, who said the “Shallow” duet, which encouraged Quivers to try hooking up with girls, gave him “chills.”

“Fred is tearing up right now,” he laughed.

Getting the song on the show, Tohn said, and having Stern give her a big plug was one of the “biggest highlights of my career,” she tells Variety.

Fred Armisen plays a threatening, potentially murderous landlord in next week’s episode of “At Home with Amy Sedaris.” He even has a very long switch blade to prove it.

Watch the exclusive clip of the episode, titled “Hospital-tality,” above. Along with Armisen, the new episode guest stars Ann Dowd, Leo Fitzpatrick, Juliette Lewis and Taryn Manning.

TruTV’s description: “Amy shows us how to care for the ill in your very own home, by setting up a sick room and preparing homemade chicken soup. Looking to avoid being murdered by her landlord/drug dealer, Chassie volunteers to become Amy’s patient hoping to hide out until the trouble blows over. Unfortunately, the trouble blows into Amy’s living room!”

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Season two returned to TruTV Feb. 19 for a 10-episode run. It features Sedaris...

The first trailer from the second season of the Emmy-nominated At Home With Amy Sedaris is out, showcasing the signature silliness of a conventional but subversive homemaker. The series returns Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 10 Pm Et/Pt.

Created by Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello, the 10-episode second season will again revolve around a conventional homemaking theme, with twists taking segments in wacky directions. New topics explored this season include how to entertain teenagers, game nights, caring for the ill, and makeovers.

Guest stars for the second season include Rose Byrne, Matthew Broderick, Justin Theroux, Susan Sarandon, Gillian Jacobs, Juliette Lewis, Ellie Kemper, Fred Armisen, Michael Shannon, Ana Gasteyer, John Early, and James Monroe Iglehart, among others. Season one guest stars Cole Escola, David Pasquesi, Heather Lawless and Ana Fabrega return to reprise their roles.

The series helped to expand truTV’s reach during its season one run, with more than a...

Justin Theroux is smoking a pipe in a closet, a closet he died in years ago. Susan Sarandon is wearing a tiny hat. Rose Byrne is making a donut bird feeder. This isn't a fever dream, this is At Home with Amy Sedaris. In the above trailer, get a look at the madcap comedy of the Emmy-nominated series created by Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello, two of the folks behind the cult-hit Strangers With Candy. "Think of this show as a delicious, Emmy-nominated pound cake," Sedaris says in the trailer above. "All the ingredients are essential: One pound of me, two whole cups of myself, a generous drizzle of I, and a pinch of you, my fans." Season two of the delightfully deranged comedy lifestyle show...

Actress and comedian Amy Sedaris has joined the cast of Disney’s live-action Lion King remake.

She will be voicing a brand-new animal character, an elephant shrew whose name is not yet known. Sedaris is known for her many roles in cartoon voice work, TV, and movies. She worked with director Jon Favreau previously on his movie Chef.

She is so funny and will be a great asset to the already fantastic cast that includes Donald Glover as Simba, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter as Nala, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar, James Earl Jones as Mufasa, Billy Eichner as Timon, John Oliver was Zazu, and Seth Rogen as Pumbaa.

From Disney Live Action, director Jon Favreau’s all-new “The Lion King” journeys to the African savanna where a future king is born. Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub’s arrival.

Danny Leiner, who directed the popular slacker comedies Dude, Where's My Car? and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, has died. He was 57.

Leiner died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer, his brother, Ken, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Leiner also helmed episodes of such series as The Sopranos, Sports Night, Strangers With Candy, Arrested Development, The Office, Felicity, Everwood, Gilmore Girls, Freaks and Geeks, The Mind of the Married Man, The Tick and Party of Five.

More recently, he directed and produced the Joshua Malina comedy Backwash at Crackle for Sony Pictures Television.

Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), starring Ashton Kutcher and Seann William ...

Danny Leiner, who directed the popular slacker comedies Dude, Where's My Car? and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, has died. He was 57.

Leiner died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer, his brother, Ken, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Leiner also helmed episodes of such series as The Sopranos, Sports Night, Strangers With Candy, Arrested Development, The Office, Felicity, Everwood, Gilmore Girls, Freaks and Geeks, The Mind of the Married Man, The Tick and Party of Five.

More recently, he directed and produced the Joshua Malina comedy Backwash at Crackle for Sony Pictures Television.

Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), starring Ashton Kutcher and Seann William ...

This story about Amy Sedaris first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.

Amy Sedaris has long reigned in the cult comedy space, thanks to oddball characters in straightforward rom-coms (“Maid in Manhattan”) or delirious streaming work (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”). And, of course, her star-making turn in the Comedy Central deep cut “Strangers With Candy.”

But, in recent years, Sedaris has been pumping out work that borders on performance art by playing a domestic guru by way of the “The Twilight Zone.” This is manifested in two books (“Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People” and “I Like You: Entertaining Under the Influence”), and has now earned the comedian an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series for her TruTV series, “At Home With Amy Sedaris.”

Working with her co-writer and longtime collaborator Paul Dinello, Sedaris plays a heightened version of herself and numerous other...

Happy Wednesday "Grey's Anatomy" fans. Today, we've got a brand new report to share with you guys in reference to the new, upcoming 15th season of your favorite show. It turns out that a new casting development has occurred that will be bringing a new, handsome doctor into the mix! According to a new report from the folks over at TV Line , the show's production team has hired actor Chris Carmack to come on and play a recurring character who will be an orthopedic surgeon at Grey Sloan Memorial hospital. He will also have the nickname "ortho god" which I suppose means he's definitely mastered his craft. You guys can view photos of Chris Carmack on his official IMDb page by Clicking Here. Unfortunately, there are no other details available for this new character. We don't have a name for him yet or any other details about his life. Hopefully,...

Showtime is developing Hello Nancy, an original film based on the nonfiction book On Her Trail, My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News’ First Woman Star by CBS This Morning co-host John Dickerson, with Stephen Colbert and his wife Evelyn McGee Colbert serving as executive producers.

The Zookeeper’s Wife scribe Angela Workman will pen the adaptation and co-executive produce. Dickerson serves as associate producer.

Hello Nancy centers on pioneering journalist Nancy Dickerson, chronicling her trailblazing journey through the high-powered world of 1960s Washington, D.C., to become a prominent political journalist and eventually the first woman to anchor a TV news show. Among her numerous milestones, Dickerson was the first female member of the Washington TV press corps, the first reporter to speak to John F. Kennedy after his inauguration and more — all of which established her as a role model for a generation of aspiring media professionals. The challenges she faced along the way,...

truTV has ordered a 10-episode second season of its critically praised half-hour variety sketch series, At Home with Amy Sedaris, co-created by Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello (Strangers with Candy). A24 is on board to produce the sophomore season of the scripted series, which will go into production later this year.

In At Home with Amy Sedaris, Sedaris invites viewers into her world, showcasing her unique, distinctive brand of hospitality and homemaking in weekly themed episodes which feature imaginative characters, how-to demonstrations, special guests, and more.

The series helped to expand truTV’s reach during its season one run, with more than a quarter of the audience comprised of new viewers.

Actress, author, and comedian Sedaris is the co-creator, with Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello, of the cult classic comedy series Strangers with Candy, and also half of the Obie-winning “Talent Family” playwright team with her brother, David Sedaris. She has written two best-selling books,...

Amy Sedaris is keeping her home at TruTV.

The Turner-owned cable network has renewed the variety sketch show At Home With Amy Sedaris for a second season consisting of 10 episodes.

A24 (Lady Bird, 2 Dope Queens) has boarded At Home to produce the second season of the scripted series, which was co-created by Sedaris and Paul Dinello (Strangers With Candy). Production will begin later this year on the comedy, on which Sedaris invites viewers into her world and showcases her distinctive brand of hospitality and homemaking in weekly themed episodes that feature imaginative characters, how-to demos and special guests.

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Amy Sedaris is a comedy legend thanks, in part, to Jerri Blank. When Sedaris was in her mid-30s, she originated the “Strangers With Candy” role, playing a 46-year-old high school freshman who looked like she was pushing 60. She was “a boozer, a user, and a loser,” and it showed.

Now, Jerri still shows herself in ways good and not so good.

“[Today people] recognize you from Jerri, which means I’m starting to look like Jerri Blank,” Sedaris said in an interview with IndieWire. “So [that] just makes you feel old.”

But with fake age comes real experience. Though her most famous character barely starts to tell the story of an acclaimed sketch performer, playwright, advice columnist, and author, the series and its effect on modern comedy is undeniable.

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Actress and comedian Amy Sedaris is no stranger to crafts, entertaining and homemaking, as she’s demonstrated with her two books, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence and Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People. Plus, we can never forget her one-time cheese balls and cupcakes catering business, Dusty Food Cupcakes. Now, the former Strangers With Candy star is showcasing her diverse but necessary homemaking skills on the new truTV series, At Home With Amy Sedaris, co-created by her and Paul Dinello.

On the 10-episode comedy, her quirky tidbits are bought to life in lessons on creating Popsicle stick buddies, with kids dipping their glue-covered figurines into bags of hair, and how to gut a fish. And there will be plenty of celebrity guests, from Jane Krakowski and Stephen Colbert, to get a firsthand demonstration.

While there’s an earnest humor written into each segment, everything is ultimately derived from her years of crafting and entertaining. “It’s something...

If you're a fan of the Netflix series Bojack Horseman, you'll recognize Amy Sedaris. She voices fan-favorite character Princess Carolyn, one of the more nuanced performances on a show that is not short of them. However, Sedaris has been around a long time, famously starring in her own Comedy Central TV series Strangers With Candy. Well it looks like Sedaris is once again starring in her own show on... Read More...

Amy Sedaris just wants to entertain you. The chameleon actress and writer, best known for Strangers With Candy, the Comedy Central series she starred in and co-created, BoJack Horseman, and guest roles on shows like Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Broad City, is returning to TV with her own show, At Home With Amy Sedaris. It's a delightfully wacky lifestyle truTV series where she makes things like potato ships and does Angela Lansbury's morning movement routine. Why? Why not! Sedaris' Instagram feed, where she admittedly posts a lot, is full of kitschy crafts and things about her pet rabbit. It's a good indication of the type of crafts and kookiness you'll find on At Home With Amy Sedaris, right down...

Amy Sedaris and her friends Justin Theroux, Jane Krakowski, Rachel Dratch and Michael Shannon are here to make your day—and at home entertaining—all the more better. In the exclusive At Home With Amy Sedaris trailer above, enter the delightfully wacky world of Sedaris as she does it all, from bath tips (oatmeal in a stocking!) to giving tips on how to reuse American cheese papers (makeup removal!). "I'll show you tips on crafting, cooking and how to be your own terrific host," the star and co-creator says. This is from the woman who gave us Strangers With Candy, you know it's not going to be a normal lifestyle show just from her association with the show, the trailer just proves...

Among the many folks who rolled their eyes at the “Fifty Shades of Grey” phenomenon, there exists a surprising faction of critics: The proudly kinky. Not only did the books and subsequent films get a lot of things dangerously wrong about Bdsm, they say, but “Fifty Shades” was seriously devoid of the joy or playfulness that leads many practitioners to don leather bodices and ball gags. That questionable lack of humor is what led Jenny Jaffe to write “Neurotica,” a bite-sized series about a dominatrix with Ocd currently running on IFC’s Comedy Crib.

The idea began percolating for Jaffe around the time that “Fifty Shades” started taking off. “It was so self-serious and dour,” she said. “There was clearly an appetite for stories about kink, but I found it really strange that the topic gets approached with this really heavy hand. Human sexuality is so expansive and funny, and when it’s good,...