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While HBO’s comedy series Bored to Death was cancelled after three seasons back in 2011, and a possible movie has been in development since 2013, not much progress has been reported so far. However, speaking on a panel at the Vulture Festival in Los Angeles on Sunday, the show’s creator Jonathan Ames said, “I did…

TBS has given series orders to two comedies: The Guest Book, an anthology from Raising Hope creator Greg Garcia, and the animated Tarantula, from Danny McBride, Jody Hill and David Gordon Green’s Rough House. Both are slated for a 2017 debut. Additionally, the network has given a pilot pickup to World’s End, from Bored…

Patrick Stewart is sitting on the veranda of a 19th Century Louisiana plantation house. It's his home from home as he shoots an as-yet untitled Wolverine sequel ("as the world now knows," he says). He's returning once more to play Charles Xavier, the X-Men role that confirmed a spot on the A-list he has singularly…

Blunt Talk show creator Jonathan Ames says the genesis of the series came, in part, from the late, great Garry Shandling. Speaking at today’s Deadline TV Contenders event, Ames said Seth MacFarlane wanted to set up a comedy in the vein of Shandling's The Larry Sanders Show that would star Sir Patrick Stewart (after…

When it comes to career longevity and success, English actor Sir Patrick Stewart is second to none. It's been an eclectic path. While fulfilling his responsibilities to numerous tentpole franchises over the years—most recently, to the X-Men series—Stewart has taken on diverse roles in animated series such as American D…

Any references you see in Starz’s new comedy Blunt Talk to Paddy Chayefsky’s Network are entirely not coincidental, the show’s creator/exec producer Joanthan Ames told journalists at TCA this morning. Asked if there was a connection, Ames answered happily, “Very much so. I, in preparation for writing, rewatched Network…