Amazon is doing more clearing the decks with the cancellation of three comedy series: Tig Notaro’sOne Mississippi, Jill Soloway’sI Love Dick and Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Jean-Claude Van Johnson.
One Mississippi was canceled after two seasons, while I Love Dick and Jean-Claude Van Johnson were axed after one…
A major player at the Emmys since its very first season—and now through production on its fourth—Transparent is remarkably affecting insomuch as it’s character-driven. While infused with its moments of fantasy and whimsy, on a visual level, the show is typically quite simple.
But investigating the work of…
Meeting Jill Soloway on Afternoon Delight—a 2013 indie shot in Silverlake—Kathryn Hahn felt herself in the midst of a career high point, unaware of the true impact this professional collision would have on the course of her career. A muse for Soloway, Hahn would follow the writer/director on to two critically…
Casting the title role of Dick—a mysterious, caustic artist and cowboy—in Amazon original series I Love Dick, it’s easy to see how series creators Jill Soloway (Transparent) and Sarah Gubbins arrived at Golden Globe-winner Kevin Bacon. Seeing so many of his films become regarded as classics over the course of his…
Launching on May 12, Jill Soloway's new Amazon seriesI Love Dick is no Transparent. However, what it is will challenge you, maybe shock you, inform you, and certainly throw into question what a TV show is with a plethora of perspectives rarely seen on the small screen.
Sure, challenging can sometimes be a polite way…
EXCLUSIVE: “Dear Dick, this is about obsession,” confesses Kathryn Hahn's character of f Chris Kraus in the new trailer for I Love Dick. “Dear, Dick, how did we not know each other before now?” she says in another letter to the Kevin Bacon played role of the Dick of the title. Telling you a lot but not all about I Love…
"It's like a soapy delicious psycho-sexual comedy set in an art town," Jill Soloway says of her upcoming Amazon Studio series I Love Dick. "No one makes psycho-sexual comedies," the award-winning Transparent creator added. "Not in Texas" chimed in cast member Griffin Dunne of the show, which launches May 12.
The pair…
“This is a rallying cry that women, people of color, queer people, and their allies are all one big movement,” says Jill Soloway of the Women’s Marches that are set for Washington D.C, Park City and all over the country today after Friday’s Inauguration of Donald Trump. “The enemy is now clear and the enemy is now…
Amazon has set Friday, May 12 for the premiere date of Jill Soloway's anticipated seriesI Love Dick in the U.S. and UK. The date announcement comes ahead of the series’ debut at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday, where Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Hahn, Griffin Dunne, India Menuez, Lilly Mojekwu, Roberta Colindrez, Jill…
Sibylla Deen (Tyrant) has booked passage on Season 4 of TNT drama The Last Ship. Created by Hank Steinberg and Steven Kane based on William Brinkley's novel, the series chronicles the aftermath of a global catastrophe that nearly decimates the world's population. Captain Tom Chandler (Eric Dane) and his crew must…
Amazon has ordered to series comedies I Love Dick, Jean-Claude Van Johnson and The Tick. All will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in 2017 in the U.S., UK, Germany, Austria and Japan. Amazon went three-for-three, picking up all three comedy pilots it released for a trial run for Prime subscribers in August, in what…
Amazon has set the lineup for its 2016 comedy pilot season. I Love Dick, starring Kathryn Hahn, Kevin Bacon and Griffin Dunne; The Tick, a superhero tale based on the acclaimed comic, andJean-Claude Van Johnson starring martial arts film star Jean-Claude Van Damme, will debut August 19 in the U.S., UK, Germany…
