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EXCLUSIVE: In a throwback to the sponsor segments of television’s earliest days, Late Night With Seth Meyers bandleader Fred Armisen will star in a Cadillac-branded segment during Thursday night’s show. Meyers will toss to the segment featuring Armisen in the role of an agent in Cadillac’s “digital showroom,” touting…

Showtime has released the trailer for its comedy series Moonbase 8. Starring Fred Armisen, Tim Heidecker and John C. Reilly, Moonbase 8 follows aspiring NASA astronauts preparing to qualify for their first lunar mission. “Let’s show NASA that we know what we’re doing,” Armisen’s Skip tells his teammates. The trailer…

Showtime has picked up Moonbase 8, a half-hour workplace comedy series from Portlandia co-creators Fred Armisen and Jonathan Krisel (Baskets), Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!), John C. Reilly (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story) and A24. It’s slated to premiere this fall. Co-created by Armisen…

Saturday Night Live’s cold opens have largely followed a formula for the past few years — tackling a big political story of the week and featuring a lot of A-list cameos. Tonight, SNL stayed political in the cold open with Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump but did not feature cameos besides a brief appearance by host Will…

After a week off, Saturday Night Live came in hot with Alec Baldwin returning as Donald Trump for a rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico, or as he put it, “the albacore tuna capital of the United States”. Throughout his rally, he was joined by an interesting roster of MAGA supporters — as well as some familiar faces…

EXCLUSIVE: Five-time Golden Globe winner Carol Burnett (The Carol Burnett Show), Fred Armisen (Portlandia) and Rhenzy Feliz (Runaways) are among cast to join Auli'i Cravalho (Moana) in Netflix movie Sorta Like A Rock Star. Rising actor Feliz will star opposite Cravalho in the story of a teenage girl who, despite her…

Chef's Table has become one of television's most celebrated food-themed programs since it debuted in 2015, but there was a time the Netflix series faced an uphill battle getting made. "Nobody wanted to hear a pitch about a food show without a celebrity host attached to it except for Netflix," creator and executive…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has ordered a second season of Los Espookys, its half-hour primarily Spanish-language comedy series from Saturday Night Live alum Fred Armisen and Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video. Created and written by Armisen, Ana Fabrega and Julio Torres, the series is set in a strange and dreamy version of a…

EXCLUSIVE: Fred Armisen, from TV’s Saturday Night Live, Portlandia, and Documentary Now!, has joined the indie horror comedy, Too Late, which revolves around the LA underground comedy scene. D.W. Thomas is directing the pic, which will mark her first feature directorial outing. This is the inaugural film for Firemark…

When Documentary Now! producers are choosing which docs to tackle next, “the first thing is always can we do it? Can we make it seem funny and real at the same time? There is also the budgetary thing,” said Fred Armisen, one of IFC mockumentary series’ creators and executive producers, during Deadline’s recent The…

IFC has officially renewed the cult-favorite, lovingly crafted spoof Documentary Now! for another seven-episode season. In a sardonic press release, one of many upfront announcements from AMC Networks this morning, IFC notes that the premiere date for the new run of episodes has not been determined "because Fred…

Speaking at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys event, Documentary Now! executive producers Rhys Thomas, Alex Buono and Fred Armisen spoke about working with Oscar winner Cate Blanchett. She guest-starred in the third season as a Marina Abramović-type performance artist in the episode titled “Waiting for the Artist,&#8221…