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Sherman's Showcase is a sketch comedy show created by former Late Night with Jimmy Fallon writers Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin that includes sketches that were "too edgy" for the NBC late night show. The IFC Soul Train take-off, which launches later this month, is hosted by Salahuddin, who plays Sherman…

Ahead of the fourth season premiere, IFC has handed an early fifth season renewal to all-female sketch series Baroness von Sketch Show. Season 4 of the award-winning series, commissioned by CBC and picked up by IFC for the U.S., is set to premiere on October 30. The renewal was announced as part of AMC Networks…

The first-look trailer from IFC’s new variety sketch series Sherman’s Showcase has been released. If you don’t watch it, you’re racist. At least, according to the trailer. The network's new comedy, a take-off combining elements of Soul Train, Solid Gold and Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in, was created by and stars Diallo Rid…

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"…

IFC has officially renewed the cult-favorite, lovingly crafted spoof Documentary Now! for another seven-episode season. In a sardonic press release, one of many upfront announcements from AMC Networks this morning, IFC notes that the premiere date for the new run of episodes has not been determined "because Fred…

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…

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…

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…