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EXCLUSIVE: Kal Penn is set as the male lead of Belated, FX’s comedy pilot written, directed and executive produced by Rescue Me and The Job co-creator Peter Tolan, I have learned. The half-hour comedy follows Owen (Penn), a recently out man in his 40s, and his ex-wife Diana as they attempt to find their new normal and…

Kal Penn announced his engagement to Josh, his partner of 11 years, in his new book You Can’t Be Serious. The former White House staff member confirmed his relationship in an interview with People on Sunday and gave his reasons for keeping mum all these years. “I’ve always been very public with everybody I’ve…

EXCLUSIVE: Competition series from Kal Penn and ice cream manufacturers Ben & Jerry's are part of Food Network and Cooking Channel's latest slate of originals. The Discovery-owned networks are plotting over 30 new series and more than 25 returning series for the second half of the year as part of 400 hour of…

Quibi’s #FreeRayshawn, written by Marc Maurino, captured the Writers Guild Award for Original & Adapted Short Form New Media. The victory had a much different feel from last September, when the show won two Creative Arts Emmys in a breakthrough for the startup, which earned 10 Emmy nominations. A month after that…

When Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan last week, the $1.9 trillion bill included a significant bump for arts and cultural agencies: $135 million each to the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and $175 million to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Just weeks…

Kal Penn will host the 2021 Writers Guild Awards ceremony, to be held virtually March 21 from Los Angeles and New York. "I'm very honored that the Writers Guild, of which I'm a member, chose me to bring together a wildly diverse range of people, from liberal writers on the West Coast to liberal writers on the East…

During October, in the throes of the general election, Senator David Perdue deliberately mispronounced and mocked Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ name. This raised many eyebrows. Including members of the Asian community — particularly the South Asian community. In response to Perdue’s disrespectful behavior, South…

Atypical actor Nik Dodani and m Kamala Harris sister Maya Harris and niece Meena Harris have returned for Brown and Down: The Sequel to help motivate the South Asian community in Georgia to register and vote for the upcoming runoff elections. The video, which also features actors Kal Penn, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Manish Da…

Hollywood stars, political figures and more are celebrating the varying meanings and origins of their names after a video of GOP Sen. David Perdue mocking vice president candidate Kamala Harris’ name went viral. “Kamala or Kamala-mala-mala-mala, I don’t know. Whatever,” Perdue said during a Trump rally in…

The WGA East has signed Kal Penn Approves This Message to a guild contract after reports that the politically themed comedy-variety series "was being produced non-union," the guild said. Writers working on the series will now be covered under the WGA's minimum basic agreement. The show originally billed itself as an…

UPDATED: Freeform announced that its previously untitled Kal Penn-fronted election-themed series will now be called Kal Penn Approves This Message. After announcing the new show on Tuesday, Freeform shared that the series will make its premiere on Tuesday Sept. 22, which is also National Voter Registration Day. Kal Pen…

When CBS Friday announced a series order for Silence of the Lambs sequel Clarice starring Rebecca Breeds, the announcement included three key new cast members whose deals had closed after the coronavirus pandemic suspended all pilot production in mid-March, Kal Penn, Nick Sandow and Michael Cudlitz. Designated Survivor…