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EXCLUSIVE: Another classic TV sitcom is mounting a comeback. The iconic 1960s comedy Hogan’s Heroes is being rebooted by the original series co-creator Al Ruddy, Village Roadshow Entertainment Group and Rough Pictures. The reimagined version will be a single-camera action adventure comedy series set in present day…

Three weeks following its freshman-season launch, HBO has renewed its comedy series The Righteous Gemstones for Season 2. "Danny [McBride], Jody [Hill] and David [Gordon Green] are among our favorite collaborators and we're thrilled that their take on a family comedy has been met with such enthusiasm," says Amy…

HBO received a blessing of sorts from the TV Gods this past weekend with the premiere of megachurch comedy The Righteous Gemstones and the second episode of the second season of Succession. Coming in almost the same as the series high of the August 11 Season 2 debut, the Brian Cox-led global media moguls drama snared…

Danny McBride, who co-created HBO series Eastbound & Down and Vice Principals, said he focused on protagonists “who believed they were owed something in life.” But his new show The Righteous Gemstones, which follows an opulent megachurch family, is about those “who get everything they want” and the damage that can be…

So many comedy stars have now invaded the horror genre that it’s not even funny. This month, it was Orion Pictures pouncing on a Scandinavian slasher pitch by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Last month, Lionsgate trumpeted Chris Rock as the idea man and executive producer who can pump new lifeblood into the studio’s rusty S…

EXCLUSIVE: Vice Principals alum Walton Goggins will re-team with his former co-star Danny McBride on McBride’s new HBO comedy series The Righteous Gemstones. Goggins is set for a recurring role on the series, on which McBride also stars along with John Goodman. Written, directed and EP’ed by McBride, The Righteous Gems…

He burst on the scene as the hapless proprietor of a strip mall dojo in the low budget The Foot Fist Way, and Danny McBride just scored his biggest success as co-writer of the low budget sequel to the 40-year old John Carpenter film Halloween. Its $80 million opening gross, a record for October, likely will prevent…

HBO has given a series order to The Righteous Gemstones, the Danny McBride-created half-hour comedy about a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work — all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. John Goodman stars the patriarch Eli Gemstone, and the order comes as…

Tonight in Toronto, Laurie Strode makes a triumphant return to cinemas with David Gordon Green's Halloween. While the latest installment of John Carpenter's iconic horror franchise—centering on the murderous, masked Michael Meyers—is the first to hit theaters in over a decade, Green's contribution to the canon goes…

It’s hard to believe that the stoner comedy Pineapple Express was released 10 years ago today. Directed by David Gordon Green and starring Seth Rogen, James Franco, and Danny McBride, the film became a hit with audiences and put itself in the film history books as a weed comedy for the ages. Rogen, who co-wrote it…

Danny McBride and John Goodman are returning to HBO for The Righteous Gemstones pilot. The televangelist family comedy created by the Eastbound & Down star finds McBride and the Treme vet teaming up to play the offspring heir apparent to Goodman's world famous and acerbic preaching patriarch. As the McBride portrayed…

Jonathan Watson’s dark comedy Arizona starring Danny McBride has landed at RLJE Films, which has acquired all North American rights to the film. Arizona marks another collaboration between Watson and McBride, who have worked together on the HBO comedy Vice Principals. The film was penned by Brooklyn Nine-Nine‘s Luke…