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There are two things that Kal Penn loves: making people laugh and America. This is reflected in his résumé, which includes the successful sitcom How I Met Your Mother, the cult stoner comedy Harold and Kumar franchise (which we will get to later), and his work in the Obama administration as an associate director in…

As usual, NBC has kicked off its pickups of new series with orders to pilots from its sister studio Universal Television. The network has picked up to series Memphis legal drama Bluff City Law, starring Jimmy Smits, from The Brave creator Dean Georgaris and producer David Janollari; and Queens immigrant comedy Sunnysid…

The line of succession has held. Netflix today set a June 7 premiere date for Season 3 of Designated Survivor, the D.C. drama starring Kiefer Sutherland that the streaming service picked up in September after ABC had canceled it. Take a look above at a two-minute recap of the first two seasons, which also stream exclus…

NBC has given a pilot green light to an untitled single-camera comedy starring and executive produced by Kal Penn (Designated Survivor), writer-producer Matt Murray, The Good Place creator/executive producer Michael Schur and Universal TV. Co-written by Penn and Murray, the comedy, which had a put-pilot commitment…

Kal Penn (Designated Survivor) is set to co-write, executive produce and star in a comedy series project, which has received a put pilot commitment fro NBC. Penn is co-writing the untitled comedy with Matt Murray, with The Good Place creator/executive producer Michael Schur supervising. The project, produced by…

Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, Adam Davidson (co-founder of NPR's Planet Money) and Kal Penn are teaming on a new original docuseries about money for Amazon Prime. According to Amazon, the untitled docuseries “will give Prime members extraordinary insight into the global economy and its comedic eccentricities, all through…

Tapping into every Democrat's dream, Michelle King, creator of The Good Fight, said her show is currently working on an episode about the impeachment of the president. Sadly for Dems, the president in the show is fictional. "We're doing an impeachment episode right now," she said during the “Penning Pennsylvania…

Actor and civil servant Kal Penn has signed a book/audiobook deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt & Audible. The book will be a collection of essays set to be published in 2019. The book will include his unique 21st-century American success story as he writes about ambition, the challenges of navigating Hollywood, and…

UPDATED with George C. Wolfe signing letter: All 17 citizen members of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities have resigned in the wake of President Donald Trump’s stance on the violence last weekend in Charlottesville, VA. The committee, which includes actor Kal Penn and former Sen. Ted Kennedy’s…

Kal Penn may be playing a speechwriter for the President of the United States on Designated Survivor, but the actor hasn't always had such rounded out roles – especially in his early career. In a series of tweets, Penn recalled when he was starting out as an actor and many of the parts he would audition for were…

Update 10:30 am Kal Penn’s fundraising page for Syrian refugees has surpassed its $250,000 goal, with $251,052 in donations by mid-Sunday morning. “I’m speechless,” Penn tweeted, noting that the amount is a hundred times more than the page’s original $25,000 goal. “How’s that for showing the world who we are?” The…

The lineup for the next installment of Masterchef Celebrity Showdown has been announced, with Kal Penn (Designated Survivor), Cheryl Hines (Son of Zorn), Jordana Brewster (Lethal Weapon, The Fast & furious series), Anthony Anderson (Black-Ish) and former NFL stars Ronde Barber and Tiki Barber among those joining the…