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After two very long pandemic years without in-person events and hootenannies to electrify Emmy season, the FYC is back. Big time. Yet, for all the star power, sound stages, rented mansions and gimmicks, do FYCs really help? Will a performance from Sting galvanize the TV Academy voting masses? So, it’s not quite a…

"For me, I was aching to see these people in the village and these characters, get one last tip of the hat," Better Things co-creator and star Pamela Adlon said of the FX series' finale tonight. "That for me was everything.” Full of freed fish, childhood homes past and present, unlocked bathrooms, a lack of tampons…

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Better Things creator Pamela Adlon became emotional while reflecting on her journey across five seasons during the show’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders TV event Sunday. “I couldn’t be happier,” she said. “At this point a year ago, I was like, ‘This is impossible.’ It was incredibly challenging making the show during…

EXCLUSIVE: Things just got a lot better for fans of Better Things. As the acclaimed FX series rolls through its fifth and final season, co-creator and star Pamela Adlon is launching a podcast to focus on the story behind the story in each episode. Entitled Better Things with Pamela Adlon, the podcast is set to debut…

Both of FX’s awards stalwarts on the comedy side, Atlanta and Better Things, are coming to an end. Better Things co-creator, writer, director, executive producer and star Pamela Adlon announced that the upcoming fifth season will be her show’s last back in October; FX Chairman John Landgraf revealed at TCA today that…

The fifth and final season of FX‘s Better Things is set to premiere on February 28 at 10 p.m., and creator Pamela Adlon already is toying with the idea of rebooting it a la Sex and the City‘s And Just Like That… “I really love this. It’s an incredible thing that we had these five seasons,” Adlon told Deadline during…

It’s the fifth and final season of Pamela Adlon’s 2x Primetime Emmy nominated FX series Better Things, and it’s a time for her alter ego Sam Fox to try and find a moment for herself as she balances single motherhood, three daughters coming of age as well as her working actor career. Her mom is showing increasing signs…

Here’s wishing you the bluest sky, Better Things. FX said today that the fifth and final season of its comedy written, directed and produced by and star Pamela Adlon will premiere at 10 p.m. Monday, February 28. It also will stream on Hulu. The FX Productions show’s ending run focuses on “the road ahead” for  Sam Fox…

The upcoming fifth season of Pamela Adlon’s acclaimed FX comedy-drama Better Things will be its last. Ordered last year, Season 5 is filming for a 2022 premiere. "I will forever be grateful to FX for allowing me to tell stories the way I see the world and want the world to be seen,” Adlon said in a statement to…

Better Things‘ Pamela Adlon is staying in business with FX Productions, signing a new overall deal with the studio behind the critically praised series. Under the pact, Adlon will continue to develop both scripted and unscripted programming exclusively for FX, as well as potentially other divisions of Walt Disney…

When it comes to playing actress and single mother of three Sam Fox on FX’s Better Things, creator-director-writer-star Pamela Adlon said during Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event that her onscreen character “Sam is me in a cape. I joke that FX is paying for my therapy and I’m able to live out my fantasies…