There are lavish Emmy campaigns with elaborate FYC spaces, panels and food for TV Academy voters in addition to custom-made mailers. And then there are shows with little on no Emmy budgets, forcing their producers to get creative. That is the case with Comedy Central’s Corporate and the team from Funny or Die, who had…

It was bound to be a freewheeling discussion about comedy on television in the #MeToo era at the AMC Networks Summit when moderator Jill Kargman, creator and star of the Bravo series Odd Mom Out, began asking stars, writers and showrunners about the challenges of being funny in the "political hellscape sh*t-show"…

Fans of Brockmire may be upset to learn that the last two episodes of Brockmire are going to air later than originally scheduled — but there is a silver lining to this news. In lieu of next week’s episode, Jim Brockmire (played by Hank Azaria) will be live-tweeting the NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and…

In a conversation with Deadline's Dominic Patten at the Contenders Emmys today, IFC's Brockmire star Hank Azaria said his off-camera identity is beginning to blend with that of his onscreen character, disgraced baseball announcer Jim Brockmire. The actor said he finds himself in a "weird second career" of being…

IFC has renewed Brockmire, its baseball-announcer spoof starring Hank Azaria, for two more seasons and also plans a third season of Documentary Now! in 2019 The news came during the network’s upfront presentation, which was held in a downstairs room at Manhattan restaurant Upland. Although quarters were tight, the…

The ATX Television Festival added more panels to its lineup for its seventh edition in June, including The Good Wife and The Good Fight creators Robert and Michelle King, who will be making their first trek to the Austin-set event. Also aboard for the fest, which runs June 7-10, is a Showtime panel titled…

While at TCA on Friday in his capacity as star and EP of IPC's Brockmire, Hank Azaria addressed the controversy surrounding Apu Nahasapeemapetilon–a character he voices on The Simpsons. Apu is an Indian store clerk, and criticism was mostly sparked by writer-comedian Hari Kondabolu with his TruTV documentary called Th…

As it gets set to wind down its debut season on Wednesday, IFC’s Brockmire already ranks as the network’s highest-rated new series, as well as cable’s most time-shifted new comedy. Since launching April 5, the show starring Hank Azaria has averaged more than 500,000 live-plus-three-day viewers, according to Nielsen…

IFC has given a second-season pickup to new comedy series Brockmire, which will have its premiere on the cable network tonight, April 5. The renewal comes after strong digital sampling for Brockmire‘s first episode and positive reviews from critics. The pilot of the Funny Or Die series, starring Hank Azaria, has…

Brockmire is getting off to a great start. The critically-praised new original comedy series has already notched more than two million digital views one week ahead of its linear debut on IFC. The network made the premiere episode of the series, created with Funny or Die, available to watch on platforms including VOD…

IFC’s new comedy Brockmire, debuting Wednesday April 5 at 10 PM, is a “sybaritic love letter to baseball,” star Hank Azaria told TV critics today at TCA. Brockmire stars Hank Azaria, Amanda Peet and Tyrel Jackson Williams in the story of a formerly successful Baseball announcer who torched his career with a Funny or…

Parks and Recreation alumna Retta, who recurred in Season 2 of Bravo’s Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, has been promoted to series regular for seasons 3, 4 and 5. Production will begin later this summer in Vancouver. Retta plays Barbara, a rival editor at SheShe who is less than thrilled with Abby's (Lisa Edelstein)…