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 co…

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.

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…

UPDATE, with video What, or who, would it take to get Bill Murray and Fred Armisen back on Saturday Night Live? If you guessed Steve Bannon and red-hot author Michael Wolff, take a bow.

Take a look at video above.

In SNL‘s cold open tonight, Murray and Armisen took part in the show’s winning take-off of Morning Joe…

The very last question the creators of Portlandia will ever take at TCA was, appropriately:

Is this the first time you have worked with a horse?

"This was our first horse experience," series creator Fred Armisen acknowledged.

"It seemed like a very tame horse," the critic said, which, technically, was an observation, n…

Grab your granola and mason jars of small-batch whiskey and put on your North Face vests because IFC has released the trailer for the eighth and final season of Portlandia. And it has everything fans want out of the put-a-bird-on-it, Emmy-nominated comedy sketch show about life in the hip Pacific Northwest city.

The tr…