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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…

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…

The first December episode of Saturday Night Live kicked off with Alec Baldwin returning as Donald Trump after a small break following his little parking spot incident (we’ll get into that later). SNL‘s cold open featured Baldwin’s Trump in Argentina for G20. He is having a sleepless night on the balcony of his hotel…

What if your average workaday existence suddenly was changed by a single decision? Here’s one idea. Amazon is out with the first trailer for Forever, its comedy series starring Saturday Night Live veterans Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen in which a little recreation turns in a life-changing event. The logline: Married…

Cate Blanchett will guest star as a Marina Abramovic-type performance artist in an upcoming episode of IFC’s Documentary Now!, IFC announced. The episode, titled “Waiting for the Artist,” is a take-off on the acclaimed 2012 documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present. Like the real doc, the parody follows an…

The first image from A24’s comedy series Moonbase 8 has been released and it is delightfully regal and awkward with NASA prestige. Exclusively announced in April, Moonbase 8 follows three subpar astronauts living in NASA's Moon Base Simulator in the desert with high hopes of being the next chosen to travel through to…

HBO has picked up to series Los Espookys (working title), its half-hour Spanish-language comedy pilot from Saturday Night Live alum Fred Armisen and Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video. Bernardo Velasco, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Ana Fabrega, Julio Torres and Armisen star in the project, fka Mexico City: Only Good Things Hap…

A24 has begun production and will independently finance the first season of Moonbase 8,  a six-episode original comedy series from Portlandia co-creators Fred Armisen and Jonathan Krisel, Tim Heidecker (Tom Goes To The Mayor) and John C. Reilly (Wreck-It Ralph). Armisen, Heidecker and Reilly also are set to star and…

Alex Moffat brought his Anderson Cooper to an all-star Saturday Night Live cold open tonight (see video below), which addressed the recent White House firings of acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. McCabe didn’t make an appearance, but Tillerson popped up in all his flustered Texan…