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Marvel Studios Paul Rudd is about to go to war with himself – literally – in Netflix's new scripted comedy Living With Yourself from Emmy and Peabody award winner Timothy Greenberg (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart), Likely Story and Jax Media. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine, Battle of the Sexes) are set to[...]

Elsewhere, Sammy tries to solve his woes, and the girls who work with Eel O'Brian work to prove his innocence. Plastic Man #3 cover by Alex Ross Whenever I worry that maybe I just have a thing against superhero comedy stories, I remind myself that Gail Simone and Adriano Melo's Plastic Man just might be one of[...]

Adult Swim is adding two new original animated comedy projects to their twistedly original programming slate: Vernon Chatman's surreal stop-motion series The Shivering Truth; and Andrew Koehler and Benjamin Martin's medieval fantasy series Tigtone Although dramatically different series on just about every front, you can see from the series' synopses below that both projects clearly[...]

Victoria Robado The Long Con #1 is a comedy sci-fi post-apocalypse tale centering on a journalist (that throws in another subgenre into the mix technically) centering on parodied geek culture. The issue keeps some of its cards to its chest, as you get the impression something else is going on, but the other shoe doesn't drop in[...]

Ryan and Johnny are on a beer run when the Leviathan, a giant fire-breathing monster, comes from nowhere and attacks their apartment. Is it a good read?

Netflix Following up on the first teaser for the highly anticipated series that came out of last week's Television Critics Association's (TCA) summer press event, Netflix has released the first official trailer for Maniac, the streaming service's new 10-episode half-hour comedy series from director Cary Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation, True Detective) Jonah Hill (The Wolf[...]

Mel (Melonie Diaz), Madison (Sarah Jeffery), and Macy (Madeleine Mantock) learn nothing good comes from a ouija board in this 'Charmed' teaser from the CW.

CBS announced at today's Television Critics Association (TCA) summer press event that the network is in negotiations to bring back 'The Big Bang Theory.'

The cast of FXX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia took to their TCA summer press event on Friday to discuss the positive reaction to Mac coming out.

in the 13th season of the FXX original comedy series It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia Mac (Rob McElhenney), Charlie (Charlie Day), Dee (Kaitlin Olson) and Frank (Danny DeVito) return to their duplicitous, scheming ways at Paddy's Pub, while Dennis (Glenn Howerton) takes on the new role of father in North Dakota. Even without Dennis Reynolds, the[...]

Credit: Cage Skidmore, WikiCommons At today's Television Critics Association (TCA) summer press event, Fox announced that It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia star Kaitlin Olson and Leah Remini (The King of Queens) would be starring in a new comedy pilot from Sunny star/co-creator Rob McElhenney, Rob Rosell (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Mick) and 20th Century Fox[...]

With Sunny returning to FXX for a 13th season on September 5, Olson will also serve as the co-lead opposite Leah Remini in Fox's half-hour comedy pilot from her Sunny co-star/co-creator Rob McElhenney, Rob Rosell (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Mick) and 20th Century Fox TV Joining Olson as executive producers on the pilot are[...]

HBO has made a straight-to-series order for Steven Moffat's (Doctor Who, Sherlock) adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's novel The Time Traveler’s Wife. 

Plus, Jedidiah is known to keep secrets, and there are dark ones lurking inside his farm. Farmhand #1 cover by Rob Guillory Farmhand #1 is something of a comedy horror story It opens with Zeke having an especially grim nightmare, but the tone changes drastically with the introduction of his family. The humor is a bit juvenile, but[...]

Die!Die!Die! brings you the story of moral assassins attempting to rid the world of its worst people under Sentor Connie Lipshitz.

Netflix released an official trailer and new images for the second season of Bill Dubuque's (The Judge) Ozark, starring Jason Bateman and Laura Linney.

Kim & Kim are back to hunt bounties and have fun. They're now working for a big company and are tasked with getting an art piece back. Is it a good read?

During a portion of her meeting with the media, Netflix's Vice-President of Original Content Cindy Holland offered updates and some perspective on the cancellations of Everything Sucks and Lady Dynamite; saving Fox's Lucifer; and the current negotiation statuses for Freeform's Shadowhunters and NBC's Timeless. On cancelling Everything Sucks and Lady Dynamite: "We take the cancellation decisions as personally as[...]

Netflix offered the first trailer for showrunner/EP Andy Breckman's (Monk) new dramedy series The Good Cop, starring Josh Groban and Tony Danza.

Netflix kept the announcement machine rolling along at this summer's Television Critics Association's (TCA) with our first official teaser for Maniac, the streaming service's new 10-episode half-hour comedy series from director Cary Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation, True Detective). Based on the original 2014 Norwegian series, the series stars Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street) and Emma[...]

Series receiving a greenlight include drama The Expatriates from Nicole Kidman's Blossom Films and based on the best-selling novel by Janice Y.K Lee; a two-season commitment to horror series THEM from Lena Waithe and writer Little Marvin; and sci-fi romantic comedy series Upload from Greg Daniels (The Office). Here's a deeper dive into what we now know about[...]

Now, with YouTube we present a series of comedy driven twisted-ass science fiction stories that take place in a world close to ours but just a little bit off." – Jordan Peele Weird City is an anthology set in the not-too-distant future metropolis of Weird Each episode is an exploration of issues that pertain to present-day[...]

Sony Pictures TV was also the home to Lear's passion project, Guess Who Died, a retirement home comedy script he had unsuccessfully tried to sell for nearly a decade Partnering with Peter Tolan, the studio sold the project to NBC as a pilot; but when the pilot wasn't picked up for series, the studio searched[...]

Nobody should ever have to see what you saw and for that, I sincerely apologize." – Dan Harmon Adult Swim's statement makes it clear that while they do not condone or approve his 2009 video, the network supports Harmon because he recognized, acknowledged, and apologized for his mistake when it happened and has lived a life[...]

Words and Photo courtesy of Bleeding Cool's Madeline Potts: SDCC is all about the underdog. Yes, there's Marvel and DC and tons of other major networks.

The Good Place set up an offsite location at this year's San Diego Comic-Con. Explore the place where Everything is Fine with Bleeding Cool.

Credit: Showtime So if nothing else, we've learned at least two things from Showtime's 10-minute sneak preview of Sacha Baron Cohen's (Borat, Bruno) new comedy/satire series Who Is America?: GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is going to be very excited to learn that he was right after all; and gun rights advocate Philip Van Cleave needs to seriously reconsider the firm he's[...]

Credit: USAF Whatever Showtime spent to advertise and promote the Sunday night premiere of Sacha Baron Cohen's new comedy/satire series Who Is America?, they need to get some of their money back "Interviewees" Judge Roy Moore, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, former Illinois Rep Joe Walsh, and former vice president Dick Cheney have[...]

Now, Eel is willing to do anything to save the kid. Plastic Man #2 cover by Bilquis Evely and Mat Lopes Plastic Man #2 leans heavier into the comedy traditions of the character than last issue From impromptu scavenger hunt pages that break the fourth wall to making movie references, one of which also breaks the fourth[...]

When we left AMC's series adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher, Cassidy's big mouth led to TC and Jody figuring out Cassidy's a vampire.