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EXCLUSIVE: Actor-comedian Billy Eichner and producer Tom McNulty are developing Man in the Box, a biopic based on the life of groundbreaking TV icon Paul Lynde. Eichner plans to star. They've optioned a script by Edwin Cannistraci, and Eichner and McNulty are currently meeting with creatives to round out the rest of…

Jimmy Kimmel Live! has set its first guest hosts as Kimmel begins his break next week from the late-night talk show. Black-ish star Anthony Anderson and Billy on the Street’s Billy Eichner will kick off the first week with Anderson hosting Monday and Tuesday July 6 and 7 and Eichner on Wednesday and Thursday July 7…

Universal joins Disney and Paramount in putting a temporary stop to its feature productions with Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World: Dominion, Rachel Morrison’s sports drama Fling Strong and the Nick Stoller-directed, Judd Apatow-produced Billy Eichner comedy. These productions are either already on hiatus or pausing…

EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Emmy nominee and American Horror Story alum Billy Eichner is joining FX’s Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky sex scandal limited series Impeachment: American Crime Story in the role of famed journalist and Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge. It was the Drudge Report that first broke news of the White…

With an Emmy nomination this year for his short form web series Billy on the Street, comedian Billy Eichner is celebrating both his third Primetime nod from Academy, and his third iteration of the show, since it returned as a web series late last year. But short form online isn't a new home for Billy on the Street…

On top of the 1994 animated masterpiece and then a Tony-winning 1997 musical that’s still running (the third-longest in Broadway history, with no end in sight), the new reinvention of The Lion King as a “live action” movie has a lot to live up to. That’s an understatement, but as a completely faithful remake, Disney…

EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Emmy nominee Billy Eichner will write and star in an untitled romantic comedy which is set up at Universal. Neighbors director Nick Stoller will direct, co-write and co-produce under his Global Solutions banners with Judd Apatow’s Apatow Productions banner. Comedy will center around two men who…

The Simpsons kicks off its record-breaking 30th season next week, and Fox is marking the milestone with a new anniversary logo. Check it out below. In other news that likely would make Page 1 of The Springfield Shopper, Billy Eichner announced on social media today that he is doing a guest voice role for a Simpsons…

After giving us a taste of what’s to come for the cast of American Horror Story: Apocalypse, FX has released a full trailer for the eighth installment of the Ryan Murphy anthology. As the title of the new installment suggests, it’s the end of the world and now Earth is unlivable. After a plane with Leslie Grossman, Eva…

A year after Billy Eichner left TruTV and took his show Billy on the Street with him, he is coming back with new episodes of his popular man-on-the-street series. The eight short-form web-only episodes hail from Billy on the Street producer Funny Or Die, in partnership with Lyft Entertainment. The list of celebrities…

FX has put in development Time Travelin’ Jerk, an animated comedy series co-written and executive produced by Billy Eichner who also will voice a lead character. Eichner has teamed on the project with two key members from the producing team of his Emmy-nominated series Billy on the Street, Doug Brady and Anna…

Jimmy Kimmel kicked off Night 4 of his late-night show’s Marvel Marathon announcing a special promotion in honor of The Avengers, telling his audience if they can name all 64 superheroes rumored to be in the film they win back their virginity. Cast members Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Elizabeth Olsen and Winston…