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EXCLUSIVE: Seinfeld alum Jason Alexander has signed on to join Faith Based, an indie comedy from director Vincent Masciale and writer Luke Barnett currently filming in Los Angeles. It’s a satire of the Christian film industry that follows two friends, Barnett and Tanner Thomason (both Funny or Die regulars), who come…

Fox’s Richard Lovely has found its Mr. Mouse. Seinfeld alum Jason Alexander has been tapped to voice the animated character at the center of the comedy pilot from Grace and Frankie executive producer Billy Finnegan and 20th Century Fox TV. Written and executive produced by Finnegan, Richard Lovely — which has an About…

In his classic role as George Costanza on Seinfeld, actor Jason Alexander had to portray a man who was a bit chicken. Now, he’s taken that to heart in his new role as a spokesman for KFC. Alexander has become the latest celebrity to don the white suit and appear as KFC founder Colonel Harland Sanders in the chain’s…

Full Frontal’s Samantha Bee turned to the very-hot-these-days car-based comedy format in a desperate effort to get viewers focused on the crumbling of democratic norms under President Donald Trump. “I know exactly how to get an audience's attention in 2018,” Samantha Bee says pluckily. She’s in a 1984 Russian car…

What can I say about a terrible play that made me laugh? That it’s a waste of talent and hardly worthy of Jason Alexander’s return to the stage for the first time since he replaced Larry David in Fish in the Dark? That it deserves a pass because it’s by John Patrick Shanley, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dou…

Heading out on the Peak TV highway tonight, Audience’s comedy Hit the Road starring and co-created by Jason Alexander really goes nowhere fast. Premiering with the more promising 12-step-based Loudermilk on the AT&T-owned network, the self-described "not a family show" comedy about a family band of wannabe stars has a…

Audience Network’s new comedy Hit The Road,  closed out today’s panel presentation at the TCA confab in Beverly Hills. Starring Jason Alexander, the comedy follows a chaotically dysfunctional family of would-be rock/pop stars traverse the country in a cramped second-hand tour bus, seeking Partridge Family-esque…

Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss is set for a guest-starring role in Jason Alexander’s upcoming AT&T Audience Network comedy Hit the Road. Co-created by Alexander, Emmy-nominated comedy writer Peter Tilden and British screenwriter Dean Craig (Death At A Funeral), Hit The Road is about a fearless, chaotic musical family…

Seinfeld alum Jason Alexander is keeping busy these days. In addition to his new series Hit the Road for Audience Network, he has been tapped to lead the voice cast for Sprout’s new animated series Kody Kapow, set for premiere July 15. In addition, Sprout said today has added two new original animated series to its…

Production has begun in Vancouver and cast set for Hit The Road, Audience Network’s half-hour original comedy series co-created by and starring Seinfeld alum Jason Alexander. The network also released the first photo below. Amy Pietz (The Office), Natalie Sharp (Live Like Line), Nick Marini (Summer of 8), Tim Johnson…

AT&T Audience Network has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to half-hour original comedy series Hit The Road co-created by and starring Jason Alexander. The Seinfeld alum is also set to executive produce with Primary Wave Entertainment, which is co-financing the series. Fabrik Entertainment (Bosch) will…

Seinfeld alum Jason Alexander and his real-life son Gabe Greenspan will headline Dinner With Dad, a new digital short-form series greenlighted by Freeform for premiere March 10. The duo wrote all episodes and will play heightened versions of themselves in the show, which chronicles a young man’s weekly get-together…