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Jessica Williams (Love Life) is set as a lead opposite Jason Segel and Harrison Ford in Shrinking, Apple TV+'s 10-episode comedy series written and executive produced by Segel and Ted Lasso's co-creator/executive producer/showrunner Bill Lawrence and star-writer-producer Brett Goldstein. James Ponsoldt has signed on…

2 Dope Queens star Jessica Williams and Detroiters' Chris “Comedian CP” Powell are to star in the second season of HBO Max's Love Life alongside William Jackson Harper. This comes as the series has added Tuca & Bertie and Mixed-ish writer Rachelle Williams as co-showrunner alongside creator Sam Boyd and Bridget…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. has greenlit the third Fantastic Beasts movie in the Harry Potter spinoff series with production starting spring 2020. While the regular cast is returning, we hear that comedian and actor Jessica Williams, who was featured briefly in part 2’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, will…

In Patrick Brice’s Corporate Animals, Demi Moore relished the opportunity to play “the Trump of the movie.” In the comedic horror pic written by Peep Show‘s Sam Bain, Moore’s terrible CEO leads her suffering assistants on a corporate team-building retreat. During a caving weekend in New Mexico spearheaded by Bear…

Jessica Williams (2 Dope Queens) will lead the cast of Hulu's limited romantic comedy series Four Weddings and a Funeral Set to co-star in the project, written and executive produced by The Mindy Project creator, executive producer and star Mindy Kaling and executive producer Matt Warburton, are Nikesh Patel (Indian Su…

HBO has ordered a second series of 2 Dope Queen specials featuring Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson based on their hit comedy WNYC podcast. The four new hour-long specials are slated to premiere in 2019. The duo’s first series of specials debuted to critical acclaim last February. Tig Notaro directed the four…

When the podcast 2 Dope Queens with Phoebe Robinson and Jessica Williams debuted, it immediately became a hit on the iTunes charts as it put the spotlight on female comedians, comedians of color, and LGBT comedians in an effort to represent people from different backgrounds. Now it is making its way to HBO as four…

Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson told TV critics Thursday that while their four 2 Dope Queens specials for HBO are based on their podcasts of same name, all the content is original to the specials. More accurately, Williams said they were “keeping it hot, fresh and sexy for HBO.” In August, HBO ordered four…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Showtime has landed a comedy series project from former The Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams and indie filmmaker Jim Strouse, the duo behind The Incredible Jessica James, with Williams set to star. Williams and Strouse will write and executive produce the comedy, which…

The 2017 Sundance Film Festival is near its end and anointing winners tonight at its annual closing awards ceremony at the Basin Recreation Field House in Park City. Former Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams is emceeing, with juried and audience awards being handed out to films in the U.S. and World competition…

Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to Jim Strouse’s modern comedy, The Incredible Jessica James, ahead of its world premiere as the Closing Night film at Sundance. The pic will be branded as a Netflix original film and launch globally this year to Netflix viewers in 190 countries. Written and directed by Strouse…

Winter isn’t coming, it’s already here and so is one of the leads of Game of Thrones as jury member in the U.S. Dramatic category for the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Joining Larry Wilmore, Mozart In The Jungle’s Gael García Bernal, AFI Fest director Jacqueline Lyanga and others, GOT‘s Peter Dinklage was named as one…