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Jonathan Majors is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend, with musical guest Taylor Swift bringing her own special magic to the show. That is, if the cast members will allow it. In the promo touting this Saturday’s show, Aidy Bryant and Bowen Yang promised that they, too, would be bringing their musical talents to…

Saturday Night Live star and Shrill co-creator/star Aidy Bryant has closed an overall deal with Universal Television. Bryant, who returned this month for her 10th season as a cast member on the long-running NBC comedy variety series, will develop and produce projects for the studio. She co-created, starred in, wrote…

Kenan Thompson joins the vaunted few in Emmy history who have received double nominations in the acting categories. Thompson’s are highly unusual, with both in the full-time regular series categories for lead and supporting comedy. He received a Lead Actor in a Comedy Series nom Tuesday for his portrayal of Kenan…

Shrill this season closed out the story of Annie Easton celebrating her imperfect road to self-acceptance and teasing new paths for the ambitious journalist and her loved ones. The Hulu original comedy’s series finale is the subject of Deadline’s latest It Starts on the Page, which spotlights award-season…

Every season finale of NBC’s Saturday Night Live brings anxiety for fans that some of their long-time favorites may be leaving. Tonight’s Season 46 closer left many viewers fearing that we may have seen the last of a number of long-time cast members. With the pandemic seriously impacting the second half of last…

SPOILER ALERT: This post includes details about Hulu’s Shrill season 3, including the series finale “Move.” Shrill closed out its third and final chapter taking a cue from the late, great Whitney Houston as it celebrated the “greatest love of all.” On Friday Hulu dropped all the latest episodes for the original series…

Annie Easton’s journey comes to a close Hulu’s Shrill ends in May with its third and final season. But as bittersweet as ending the series about self-discovery may be, star and executive producer Aidy Bryant said her character’s journey culminates in a satisfying coda. “I think what you come away with is the battle…

Schitt’s Creek mastermind Dan Levy seems pumped about hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend. In the first promos for this week’s episode, an enthusiastic Levy appears with cast member Aidy Bryant and musical guest Phoebe Bridgers and promises a “big commitment” to being funny. Prodded by Bryant, Bridgers exhibits…

Saturday Night Live fans took to Twitter tonight to rejoice over the return of longtime cast member Aidy Bryant. She had been absent from the show since mid-October, filming the third and final season of her Hulu comedy series Shrill. Bryant was back on SNL for the sketch program’s first 2021 show, hosted by John…

Hulu has renewed praised comedy series Shrill for a third season, Deadline has confirmed. The streaming platform has ordered eight episodes, the same as Season 2. Starring Aidy Bryant, Shrill was developed by Bryant, showrunner Alexandra Rushfield and Lindy West and inspired by West's book Shrill: Notes from a Loud Wom…

In May 2012, Saturday Night Live said good-bye to two of its biggest stars, Andy Samberg and Kristen Wiig, prompting the usual gloom-and-doom forecast for NBC’s veteran late-night sketch comedy program. A few months later, SNL introduced one of its strongest group of female performers ever with Kate McKinnon, Cecily St…

Hulu has picked up a second season of comedy series Shrill, starring Saturday Night Live's Aidy Bryant. The streaming platform has ordered eight episodes, up from this season’s six, for premiere in 2020. The series, which received a straight-to-series order for Season 1 and launched to strong reviews, hails from SNL…