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Illumination and Nintendo have put together a powerhouse voiceover cast for their upcoming Super Mario Bros. animated movie which will hit cinemas on Dec. 21, 2022; that date also being news today. Playing the fraternal, mushroom digesting plumbers and squashers of turtles are Chris Pratt as Mario and Charlie Day as…

Fred Armisen & Samba Schutte have boarded HBO Max’s pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death, joining stars Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi. The series hails from writer David Jenkins, Garrett Basch and Dan Halsted. Created by Jenkins, who also serves as showrunner, Our Flag Means Death is based loosely on the true adventures…

What could go wrong with a nice little family road trip? OK, what else could go wrong? If you answered either question with “robot apocalypse,” Netflix has a movie for you. Here is the new trailer for The Mitchells vs. The Machines, about a quirky, dysfunctional but loving clan’s together time that becomes a battle to…

On Tuesday, Netflix took to Twitter to announce an April 30 release date for its animated comedy, The Mitchells vs. The Machines, also unveiling additions to its voice cast. New cast members include Fred Armisen (Big Mouth), Beck Bennett (Saturday Night Live), Chrissy Teigen (Mr. Mayor) and husband John Legend (Coming…

Hulu has greenlighted Punk Ass Bitch, a half-hour comedy pilot starring up-and-coming comedian Chris Estrada and produced by ABC Signature. Written by Estrada and Corporate creators Jake Weisman, Matt Ingebretson and Pat Bishop, with black-ish executive producer Jonathan Groff supervising, Punk Ass Bitch is based on…

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…