It was bound to be a freewheeling discussion about comedy on television in the #MeToo era at the AMC Networks Summit when moderator Jill Kargman, creator and star of the Bravo series Odd Mom Out, began asking stars, writers and showrunners about the challenges of being funny in the "political hellscape sh*t-show"…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: The IFC Center is out with the slate for its second annual What the Fest!? gathering in Manhattan. The five-day event that highlights horror, sci-fi, documentary, thrillers and other content runs March 20-24.

The opening-night pic will be the world premiere of Depraved, veteran genre writer-director Larry…

The 34th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards are set for Saturday at 2 PM PT/5 PM ET airing live on IFC and Facebook Watch from the beach near the Santa Monica pier. The show, which awards the year’s best in indie films, will be hosted by Aubrey Plaza, who seems likely to take advantage of the network’s boast that…

IFC’s Documentary Now! has cut a vinyl record of the music from an upcoming episode,Original Cast Album: Co-op.

Six new Sondheim-ian songs were written for the send up of Original Cast Album: Company, the 1970 D.A. Pennebaker documentary about the grueling overnight cast recording of Stephen Sondheim’s hit musical.

The…

Keeley Hawes, one of the breakout stars of Bodyguard, Veep's Sally Phillips and Three Girls' Jill Halfpenny have joined IFC and Channel 4's comedy series Year of the Rabbit.

The trio have joined the show, which stars Toast of London's Matt Berry, as it goes into production on location in the UK.

Hawes stars as the myst…

UPDATED with IFC statement: The story of Willard’s Mill has come to an end.

Series creator Dana Gould announced on his podcast that IFC has canceled horror-comedy series Stan Against Evil after three seasons.

"Stan Against Evil, I am sad to report, will not be returning for a fourth season” Gould said. “It had a great…

Here comes Santa Hans, here comes Santa Hans, right toward Santa McClane! With serious apologies to Gene Autry, we check in on what some call the Ultimate Christmas Movie, Die Hard, which is celebrating 30 years of spreading holiday cheer, and spatter.

Now Fox has gone and done a holiday-themed recut of the trailer…

IFC has acquired Fleabag from creator, writer, and actor Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The BAFTA-winning, six-part series about a dry-witted and unfiltered woman navigating life and love in London will premiere on IFC on Boxing Day, Wednesday, Dec. 26.

All six episodes of the series will air beginning at 11:00 pm and encore ag…

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…

The IFC horror-comedy Stan Against Evil unveiled its official Season 3 trailer today at New York Comic- Con.

The trailer features a glimpse of the nightmarish moths, possessed puppets, and evil plumbers swiftly taking over the quaint New England town of Willard's…