Girls alum Alex Karpovsky is set as a series regular opposite Julia Roberts, Bobby Cannavale and Stephan James in Homecoming, the half-hour drama from Universal Cable Productions, Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail and Anonymous Content, which has a two-season straight-to-series order at Amazon. Based on Gimlet Media's…

Comedy Central has put in development     aka Kill The Orange Face Bear, toplined by Girls' alum Alex Karpovsky. , written by Blue Mountain State co-creator Chris Romano and to be directed by Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates helmer Jake Szymanski, centers on a man whose girlfriend is eaten alive by a bear in front of…

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Breaking Bad Emmy winner Anna Gunn has boarded Miranda Bailey’s upcoming Cold Iron Pictures/Imagine Entertainment comedy You Can Choose Your Family along with Samantha Mathis, Alex Karpovsky and Logan Miller rounding out the cast that already includes comedian Jim Gaffigan. The film centers on…

Director Jeff Grace has acted in movies (It’s a Disaster) and TV (How I Met Your Mother, Mad Men), but it was his experiences as a stand-up comic opening for rock bands that inspired his directorial debut Folk Hero & Funny Guy. Grace, along with stars Alex Karpovsky, Wyatt Russell and Meredith Hagner, visited Deadline…

Actor Jeff Grace makes his directorial feature debut with Folk Hero & Funny Guy, a Tribeca Film Festival offering starring Girls‘ Alex Karpovsky, Wyatt Russell (Everybody Wants Some!!) and Men at Work actress Meredith Hagner. Karpovsky plays Paul, a middling standup comedian recently dumped by his…

Girls alum Alex Karpovsky is in advanced negotiations to star in Claire, Rilean Pictures’ remake of Éric Rohmer’s 1982 French comedy Le Beau Mariage (“The Good Marriage”). Karpovsky would star opposite Jena Malone in a story centered on an eccentric twentysomething woman living in Long Island with her aunt and teenage…

Producing partners Danielle Fishel and Ibrahim Ashmawey have signed with Industry Entertainment for talent and literary projects. They are developing projects for the TV, feature and online markets. Fishel played Topanga Lawrence on the long-running series Boy Meets World and reprised the role for Girl Meets World…

Alex Karpovsky, who plays Ray Ploshansky on HBO’s Girls, has signed with ICM Partners. His acting credits also include the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis, and Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture. He also wrote, directed and starred in the feature Red Flag, co-wrote and directed Rubberneck and Woodpecker and helmed the…