Life in Pieces is getting back together in the spring. CBS said today that Season 4 of its ensemble comedy will premiere with two new episodes bookending Mom at 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18. The series then will settle into its regular slot the following week. Created by Justin Adler and fronted by Dianne Wies…

After recounting the slow death of the Tower Records chain in All Things Must Pass and before his Eagles of Death Rock: Nos Amis airs on HBO, Colin Hanks took a pit stop between his feature docs to make the ESPN 30 for 30 short The Amazing Adventures of Wally and the Worm.  Worm meaning Chicago Bulls defensive champ…

On Thursday, another Oscar contender entered the race, as Peter Berg's Patriots Day, about the Boston Marathon bombing of April 15, 2013, was introduced at an AFI Fest gala in Hollywood. Where the film, which stars Mark Wahlberg and is being released by CBS Films through Lionsgate, now stands in a late-season lineup…

In a scene from a new documentary, directed by Colin Hanks, about his friends in the Eagles Of Death Metal rock band and the Paris terror attack of November 13, 2015, the band's front-man Jesse Hughes makes clear that he will be marked by that night forever. "I take it as a holy charge, this duty of leadership that&#8221…

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Hanks and Sean Stuart’s production outfit Company Name is teaming with current and former NFL players Troy Palomalu, Ryan Kalil and Jordan Gross to make a feature film about football players in American Samoa. The untitled project, a drama to be penned by Jim Burnstein and Garrett Schiff (Love And Hono…

Instead of drawing a comparison to any of TV's past or existing family comedies, Justin Adler, creator of CBS' new comedy Life in Pieces, said his inspiration was Looney Tunes. As in the actual Warner Bros. cartoons, including his favorite character Bugs Bunny. At today's TCA panel, Adler said after 15 years in…

Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to All Things Must Pass, the Colin Hanks documentary about the demise of Tower Records. It world premiered at SXSW, and now a September theatrical release is planned. The pic, from Hanks and Sean Stuart’s Company Name, digs into the onetime record giant’s rise (it…

Coming off his Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated turn on the FX miniseries Fargo, Colin Hanks has been cast as a lead in CBS’ single-camera comedy pilot Life In Pieces. Written on spec by Justin Adler, the project, from 20th TV and Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment, is about one family as told through the separate…

There are some actors who earn their successes in Hollywood by bare-knuckling it through auditions, and then there are those few who are lucky enough to be handed opportunities. As the son of two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks, one would assume that Colin Hanks has been blessed with nepotism. However, truth be told, the…

Dexter alum Colin Hanks has signed on to co-star opposite Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman in FX's first limited series Fargo, executive produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. Inspired by the Coens' 1996 film, FX's Fargo, from FX Prods and MGM TV, features an all-new crime story and characters. It centers on Lester…

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Hanks has signed with UTA in all areas. Hanks co-stars with Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand in Paramount's upcoming The Guilt Trip, out Christmas Day. He also stars with Adrien Brody in High School opening June 1. The actor recently had an arc on Showtime's Dexter and starred in the indie comedy Lucky…

The Good Guys and Mad Men alum Colin Hanks has been cast in what is believed to be a Big Baddie season-long arc on the upcoming sixth season of Showtime’s Dexter. More from <a href="http://www.tvline.com/2011/05/dexter-colin-hanks-spoilers/" target="_blank"…