There are lavish Emmy campaigns with elaborate FYC spaces, panels and food for TV Academy voters in addition to custom-made mailers. And then there are shows with little on no Emmy budgets, forcing their producers to get creative. That is the case with Comedy Central’s Corporate and the team from Funny or Die, who had…
After subbing for Wendy Williams, Jerry O'Connell is getting a show of his own.
Jerry O, a new entertainment talk and comedy series hosted by the actor and TV personality will get a three-week preview this summer.
Per Fox stations’ limited-run model, the series from Lionsgate's Debmar-Mercury and Funny Or Die is set…
Nora Kirkpatrick (The Office, Edward Sharpe) and Funny or Die are teaming on The Coop, an eight-episode interactive series for Eko. Production is underway with casting to begin this week.
Created by Kirkpatrick, who directs all episodes, the first season of The Coop is described as Big Brother meets an Agatha Christie…
Will Ferrell’s Cord Hosenbeck and Molly Shannon’s Tish Cattigan are returning to “host” coverage of the 2019 Rose Parade. Last year, the pair debuted via Funny or Die on Amazon Prime Video; for this edition, the spoofy coverage will be simulcast live on FunnyOrDie.com and its social platforms as well as on…
The podcast world is about to get classier. Will Ferrell is reviving his legendary Anchorman character Ron Burgundy with a new podcast appropriately titled The Ron Burgundy Podcast.
The podcast is set to launch on the iHeartRadio Podcast Network and will be available for your listening pleasure in early 2019. It will…
IFC is developing five comedy projects for series consideration, including one from exec producer Margaret Cho and another from Funny or Die.
The shows in the running at IFC are Almost Asian, which chronicles the life of a mixed-race millennial in Los Angeles; Annika Erotica, following a young Colorado pastor who…
A year after Billy Eichner left TruTV and took his show Billy on the Street with him, he is coming back with new episodes of his popular man-on-the-street series.
The eight short-form web-only episodes hail from Billy on the Street producer Funny Or Die, in partnership with Lyft Entertainment. The list of celebrities…
EXCLUSIVE: Funny or Die creative director and former Saturday Night Live head writer Andrew Steele is penning The Last Shot, a comedy set in the basketball world that is being produced by Red Crown Productions and Funny Or Die. Sports Illustrated writer Lee Jenkins, who has covered the NBA extensively over the last 11…
HBO and Funny or Die are resurrecting Cord Hosenbeck and Tish Cattigan, the “broadcast legends” played by Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon who “hosted” this year’s Rose Parade coverage on Amazon. The pair are now set to take on live coverage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s nuptials with The Royal Wedding Live with Co…
Hulu has given an 11-episode Season 2 renewal to I Love You, America, the weekly half-hour topical show starring Sarah Silverman, from Funny Or Die. The new season starts September 6.
The straight-to-series project, which got Hulu into the comedy/talk/variety show arena in a major way, discuss the current…
Impractical Jokers already is TruTV’s longest-running series, and now the cable net has ordered a 26-episode eighth season, The Turner-owned network also said today that Funny or Die will produce the brand’s first feature-length film, which veteran TV producer Chris Henchy will direct.
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