EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood vet Judd Hirsch, star of CBS series Superior Donuts and Independence Day, is joining the supporting cast of A24’s Safdie brothers movie Uncut Gems. Adam Sandler will star as a jewelry store owner and dealer whose life is turned upside down when his merchandise is stolen. The film is set in New…

It’s official — CBS is not picking up a third season of Superior Donuts, its multi-camera workplace comedy starring Jermaine Fowler and Judd Hirsch. After a decent ratings start last spring, goosed by a plum lead-in from The Big Bang Theory, Superior Donuts was renewed for a second season with some casting changes…

Veteran comedy and drama actor Judd Hirsch has signed with TalentWorks. At age 81, the two-time Tony and Emmy winner continues to work full-time; he is the lead opposite Jermaine Fowler in CBS’ new multi-camera comedy series Superior Donuts. Hirsch had been without a talent representation since July when his long-time…

Creators of CBS’ new sitcom Superior Donuts did not dispute one TV critic’s suggestion at TCA that the network will spend zero time marketing its impressive pedigreee: adaptation of Broadway play of same name by a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Tracy Letts). Judd Hirsch plays a ’60s radical who now owns a donut…

Veteran actor Judd Hirsch has been tapped as the co-lead opposite Jermaine Fowler in CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot Superior Donuts. After the end of this past pilot season, where Superior Donuts was in serious consideration for a series pickup with the network very high on Fowler, CBS ordered a new pilot for the…

Veteran Judd Hirsch is set to co-star opposite Ben Falcone in CBS' untitled multi-camera comedy written by Falcone and fellow actor Larry Dorf and co-executive produced by Falcone's wife, Mike & Molly star Melissa McCarthy. The project centers around David (Falcone), a single 37-year-old who loses everything he has in…