In a business where traditional media companies are getting bigger and more vertically integrated, indie studio Sony Pictures TV has learned to be scrappy, embracing every new entrant in the original scripted programming space: from basic cable networks FX and AMC to all current streaming platforms and the upcoming…

Saturday Night Live alum Chris Parnell is set to co-star opposite Felix Mallard and Damon Wayans Jr. in CBS' multi-camera comedy pilot from writers Tim McAuliffe (The Last Man on Earth) and Austen Earl (9JKL) and The Late Late Show With James Corden executive producer Ben Winston. In addition, Phill Lewis (Superior Don…

Freeform has lined up three more regular cast members for its upcoming black-ish spinoff series, which has been retitled to grown-ish. The 13 episode single-camera comedy, toplined by black-ish‘s Yara Shahidi, was previously known as college-ish. Saturday Night Live alum Chris Parnell, Emily Arlook (The Good Place)…

A little over a month after the exit of Sony Pictures Television presidents Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht, Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra has set new leadership of the studio’s television production operation. Focusing his search for a successor in-house, Vinciquerra has named Sony…

Saturday Night Live alum Chris Parnell has booked a starring role opposite Yara Shahidi in ABC’s proposed Black-ish spinoff. Also cast in the episode of Black-ish, which serves as a backdoor pilot for a potential offshoot, are Veep’s Matt Walsh and young actor Trevor Jackson (ABC’s American Crime). Created by Black-ish…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Parnell is continuing his education and has signed on to Melissa McCarthy’s college-set comedy Life of the Party, which began filming last week in Atlanta. Described as in the vein of the 1986 Rodney Dangerfield comedy Back to School, Life of the Party stars McCarthy as an adult attending university…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney Junior is ramping up its voice cast for Elena Of Avalor, the spinoff of its popular Sofia The First series that will debut sometime this year. Jane The Virgin‘s Jenna Ortega, Chris Parnell, Yvette Nicole Brown and Carlos Alazraqui are among the new names joining Aimee Carrero, who will portray what…