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Blunt Talk will not go beyond its original two-year order. Starz has opted not to pick up a third season of the live-action comedy starring Patrick Stewart from Seth MacFarlane, Bored to Death creator Jonathan Ames and MRC. “We are grateful to Jonathan and Patrick for the tirades and laughs that Walter Blunt…

Starz said today at TCA that the sophomore seasons of its originals Ash vs. Evil Dead and Blunt Talk will premiere back-to-back on October 2. An extended episode of Ash will start at 8 PM, followed by the talk-show sendup starring Patrick Stewart at 8:35. The 10-episode Season 2 of Ash vs…

A porn parody of Blunt Talk. Yes that’s what coming up in Season 2 of Jonathan Ames’ Starz’s comedy, executive produced by Seth MacFarlane. There’s spanking, groping, well, you’ll see. Patrick Stewart’s Walter Blunt and company have some big fans in the adult film industry who want to immortalize Blunt’s cable…

Patrick Stewart is sitting on the veranda of a 19th Century Louisiana plantation house. It's his home from home as he shoots an as-yet untitled Wolverine sequel ("as the world now knows," he says). He's returning once more to play Charles Xavier, the X-Men role that confirmed a spot on the A-list he has singularly…

"He has offered," Patrick Stewart says of Piers Morgan appearing on Starz's Blunt Talk. "One morning at breakfast in a Beverly Hills hotel, I suddenly heard this voice say, 'What the hell is going on, you're playing me," the X-Men and Star Trek alum recalled of meeting Morgan, the former CNN host and fellow Brit. "A…

Blunt Talk show creator Jonathan Ames says the genesis of the series came, in part, from the late, great Garry Shandling. Speaking at today’s Deadline TV Contenders event, Ames said Seth MacFarlane wanted to set up a comedy in the vein of Shandling's The Larry Sanders Show that would star Sir Patrick Stewart (after…

When it comes to career longevity and success, English actor Sir Patrick Stewart is second to none. It's been an eclectic path. While fulfilling his responsibilities to numerous tentpole franchises over the years—most recently, to the X-Men series—Stewart has taken on diverse roles in animated series such as American D…

Blunt Talk’s Saturday launch on Starz logged 601,000 viewers in Live+3. It’s lead-out, the second-season bow of Survivor’s Remorse, clocked 463K Live+3 viewers, which is up 68% compared with last October’s Season 1 starter. Across all of its opening weekend plays on the network, the Patrick Stewart-starrer Blunt Talk…

If the new series from creator Jonathan Ames and executive producer Seth MacFarlane was just a mix between another Network-inspired show about journalism and some very consistently bad behavior on the part of Patrick Stewart's cable news host Walter Blunt, it would be hard to recommend giving such a collection of…

A week ahead of its comedy block premiere, Starz is offering multi-platform, nationwide sampling of the first two episodes of its new original series Blunt Talk from Seth MacFarlane, and the entire six-episode first season of Survivor's Remorse. In addition, season premieres for both series will be available on…

Any references you see in Starz’s new comedy Blunt Talk to Paddy Chayefsky’s Network are entirely not coincidental, the show’s creator/exec producer Joanthan Ames told journalists at TCA this morning. Asked if there was a connection, Ames answered happily, “Very much so. I, in preparation for writing, rewatched Network…

Starz has slotted Saturday, August 22, for the premiere of Seth MacFarlane’s new live-action comedy series Blunt Talk and the return of Survivor’s Remorse. The 10-episode first season of Blunt Talk kicks off at 9 PM followed by Season 2 of Survivor’s Remorse at 9:30. Set in Los Angeles, Blunt Talk follows Walter…