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EXCLUSIVE: Nat Faxon, Kevin Dunn, Marquise Vilsón, Marinda Anderson, Don Fanelli and Nancy Lenehan are set for major recurring roles opposite lead Abbi Jacobson in Amazon's A League of Their Own, a reimagining of Penny Marshall's 1992 film, from co-creators Jacobson (Broad City) and Will Graham (Mozart in the Jungle)…

Phil Lord and Chris Miller have found a way to put their unmistakable stamp on the animated feature world with such out-of-the-box fresh hits as Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, The Lego Movie, The Lego Batman Movie and their Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, not to mention pitch-perfect live-action…

What could go wrong with a nice little family road trip? OK, what else could go wrong? If you answered either question with “robot apocalypse,” Netflix has a movie for you. Here is the new trailer for The Mitchells vs. The Machines, about a quirky, dysfunctional but loving clan’s together time that becomes a battle to…

Amazon Studios has picked up to series to A League of Their Own, a reimagining of Penny Marshall’s 1992 film, from co-creators Abbi Jacobson (Broad City) — who also stars — and Will Graham (Mozart in the Jungle) and Sony Pictures TV. The hourlong series, described as a fresh approach to Marshall’s classic about the…

EXCLUSIVE: Insecure's Natasha Rothwell is to star and exec produce Malltown, an animated comedy pilot for Comedy Central from Broad City's Abbi Jacobson & Ilana Glazer. Rothwell, who plays Kelli in the HBO comedy, which she also writes on and acts as supervising producer, will voice 13-year old Libby in the project…

EXCLUSIVE: Broad City alum Abbi Jacobson has been tapped to voice Katie Mitchell, one of the lead roles in the animated family comedy The Mitchells Vs. The Machines, which is set up at Sony Pictures Animation with Oscar winners Phil Lord and Christopher Miller attached to produce along with Kurt Albrecht. Slated for a…

The Good Place‘s D’Arcy Carden is in negotiations to star in A League of Their Own, Amazon’s series adaptation of the 1992 feature film. Gbemisola Ikumelo (Famalam) also is finalizing a deal to co-star in the project, from writers/executive producers Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham and Sony Pictures TV. Broad City…

This year, comedy duo Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer have snapped up three Emmy nominations for their short form web series Hack Into Broad City—one each for acting, and a shared nod for the show itself. Such is the beauty of short form, that despite evolving into Comedy Central's hit half-hour show Broad City, which…

The last episode of Broad City aired in March but it feels like it was just yesterday the joy of Abbi and Ilana entered our lives with all their wondrous stoner glory yesterday. Creators and stars of the show Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer stopped by the New Hollywood Podcast and it was unlike any episode we ever had…

EXCLUSIVE:  Broad City may be over, but the legacy of Comedy Central series will live on beyond its years — particularly with a featurette that sheds light on the journey of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer’s series that started off as a humble web series and turned into a cult comedy phenomenon. And for five seasons…

This year marked the series finale of Broad City, a show that put a millennial spin on the female-led comedy and spoke to a very specific generation of women. Co-created by and starring Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer and executive produced by Amy Poehler, the Comedy Central series ran five seasons, and through all the…

Broad City creator-star Abbi Jacobson and executive producer Amy Poehler reunited after saying goodbye to the Comedy Central hit on March 28. At Deadline's The Contenders Emmys on Sunday, the duo discussed the importance of featuring a strong female friendship at the heart center of the series. "It was such an…