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EXCLUSIVE: Chad has found a new home. The second season of Nasim Pedrad's coming-of-age comedy series will run on The Roku Channel after it was scrapped as part of the cost-cutting measures at Warner Bros. Discovery cable network TBS. As Deadline revealed, Chad was one of a number of shows and…

EXCLUSIVE: The run of TBS’ series Chad has been cut short. The completed second season of the coming-of-age comedy, created by and starring Saturday Night Live alum Nasim Pedrad as teen boy Chad Amani, will not run on the network as previously announced. The show, whose first season was well received by critics and…

Class is back in session for TBS’ Chad, starring and created by Saturday Night Live alum Nasim Pedrad. TBS, during its TCA slot on Monday, unveiled the first teaser for Season 2 and scheduled a spring premiere date. Set to premiere April 11 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, Season 2 picks up after summer break and its sophomore year…

TBS has renewed its rookie series Wipeout and Chad for second seasons, and fellow Turner cable net TruTV is going back for seconds on Fast Foodies. The announcements were made during Turner’s upfront presentation today. Wipeout, the obstacle-course competition series that TBS revived this year, is hosted by John Cena…

The Flight Attendant and Chad are swooping in to the Golden State for their second seasons. As Hollywood production kicks back into full gear from the coronavirus, the California Film Commission said Monday that HBO Max’s Kaley Cuoco-starring thriller and TBS’ Nasim Pedrad-created and -starring sitcom have been…

Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years sneak peek episode, and the series premiere of comedy Chad have both gotten off to a solid ratings start for their respective networks, Nickelodeon and TBS. Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years prequel series, the newest addition to the SpongeBob SquarePants universe, scored…

Nasim Pedrad wanted to create a comedy with a Middle Eastern character that wasn't "acting against Jack Bauer" in TBS' Chad. Saturday Night Live alumna Pedrad, who is starring as a 14-year-old pubescent Persian boy in the single-camera comedy, opened up the Chad panel at the Winter TCA press tour with a passionate…

TBS has given a 10-episode series pickup to Chad, Nasim Pedrad’s single-camera comedy pilot starring the Saturday Night Live alumna as a 14-year-old pubescent Persian boy. The order marks a happy ending to the project’s long journey to the screen, which was first developed at Fox and 20th Century Fox TV four years ago…

TBS has given a 10-episode series pickup to Chad, Nasim Pedrad’s single-camera comedy pilot starring the Saturday Night Live alumna as a 14-year-old pubescent Persian boy. The order marks a happy ending to the project’s long journey to the screen, which was first developed at Fox and 20th Century Fox TV four years ago…

Saba Homayoon (Mistresses) and Paul Chahidi (This Country) are set opposite Nasim Pedrad and Jake Ryan in Pedrad’s TBS comedy pilot Chad. Alexa Loo (Rogue) and Ella Mika (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) round out the series regular cast. In addition, Rhys Thomas (Saturday Night Live, Documentary Now) has been tapped to…

Eighth Grade standout Jake Ryan is set as a lead opposite Nasim Pedrad in TBS comedy pilot Chad. Created and written by Pedrad, Chad is a single-camera Middle-Eastern family comedy that follows a 14-year-old Persian boy, played by Pedrad, during high school as he desperately tries to fit in, cope with his mother's…

Nasim Pedrad's comedy Chad has found a new home at TBS, which has picked it up to pilot three years after the project was ordered to pilot by Fox. Chad, created and written by Pedrad, is a single-camera Middle-Eastern family comedy that follow a 14-year-old Persian boy, played by Pedrad during high school as he…