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Happyish is ending its run on Showtime after one season. The pay cable network has confirmed to Deadline that the offbeat comedy would not be coming back for a second season. Happyish had been a passion project for Showtime topper David Nevins who originally took in the comedy developed at Ken Kwapis’ company more…

Kathryn Hahn has long excelled in supporting roles (Girls, Kroll Show, Parks and Recreation), but at last she's front and center in Showtime's Happyish. Created by novelist and This American Life contributor Shalom Auslander, Happyish follows disgruntled advertising exec Thom Payne and his artist wife Lee, played by…

The quintessential ’80s teen heartthrob (Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend At Bernie's), Andrew McCarthy has segued into a prolific directing career, working on Orange Is The New Black, Happyish and Grace and Frankie to name only a few. He's also acting in ABC's upcoming show The Family, alongside Joan Allen…

He starred in the 2010 film The Trip, its follow-up The Trip To Italy and the critically-acclaimed Philomena, but Steve Coogan has been blazing a comedic trail on British TV for many years. Now, Coogan is busting out on US TV with Showtime's Happyish, in which he plays disaffected advertising executive Thom Payne…

Literally bathed in blood, the Season 2 premiere of the John Logan-created Showtime series got a bite taken out of it on Sunday. With 575,000 total viewers watching on May 3 at 10 PM, Penny Dreadful fell 34% from its Season 1 debut on May 11, 2014. In fact, the Season 2 debut of the drama starring Eva Green, Timothy…

With Mad Men about to end its seven-year run, a new dark comedy from This American Life contributor Shalom Auslander is debuting at April 26 to try to skewer the advertising industry and almost everything else. However, unlike AMC's Matthew Weiner-created drama, there isn't a lot to recommend about Showtime's <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/happyish/" id="auto-tag_happyish"…

Showtime will sneak the pilot for its new comedy Happyish on Sunday, April 5, following the season finale of hit dramedy Shameless. The move should provide solid sampling for the new series as Shameless is one of the premium cabler’s highest-rated series and has a similar offbeat sensibility as the newcomer. Showtime…

Showtime has dropped the first full trailer for its new half-hour comedy Happyish ahead of its April 26 premiere. Steve Coogan stars as Thom Payne, a 44-year-old whose world is thrown into disarray when his 25-year-old wunderkind boss arrives, saying things like "digital," "social" and "viral." Is he in need of a…

“It’s not the pursuit of happiness that’s our problem, it’s our inability to accept when we have maxed out.” So begins the first-look teaser for Showtime’s dark comedy Happyish. Steve Coogan, Kathryn Hahn and Bradley Whitford star in the comedic, soul-searching examination of our pursuit of happiness and why it…

Exactly a year after Showtime announced a series pickup of comedy pilot Happyish at TCA last January, the network did it again for the project’s new pilot. Happyish had to be redone after the death of original star Philip Seymour Hoffman. The dark comedy, picked up for 10 episodes, will debut April 26. It will be…

True Blood alumna and The Good Wife standout Carrie Preston has joined  Showtime comedy pilot Happyish as a recurring. Also tapped for recurring roles in the pilot are Molly Price (Third Watch) and Andre Royo (The Wire). Described as a comedic, soul-searching examination of our pursuit of happiness, Happyish centers…

Emmy and Tony winner Ellen Barkin is set to guest star in Showtime comedy pilot Happyish. She’ll play Dani Kirschenbloom, a headhunter who works closely with Thom Payne (Steve Coogan). Dani harbors no illusions about the advertising industry, or life, and is best described as the sardonic prophet-philosopher of the…