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Jim Carrey's Kidding has been canceled by Showtime after two seasons. The comedy drama, created by Dave Holstein, launched its second season in February. The show marked the second collaboration between Carrey and director and exec producer Michael Gondry. The series starred Carrey as iconic children's television host…

Kidding executive producers Dave Holstein and Roberto Benabib are expanding their relationship with Showtime, signing a first-look deal with the premium cable network. The pact will cover all projects they create and develop across platforms. Holstein currently serves as showrunner and executive producer of Showtime’s…

Showtime has rejigged a number of premiere dates for its fall schedule as it moves to a three-hour programming block for the first time. The premium cable network has reshuffled shows including the finale of The Affair, the U.S. premiere of British comedy Back to Life and Season 2 of Jim Carrey’s Kidding. The Affair…

UPDATED, 10:05 AM: Showtime said today that the Season 10 premiere of its signature comedy Shameless has been pushed back by one week to Sunday, November 10. No word yet from the premium cabler about why the change was made. Also today, Showtime released a new Season 10 trailer. You can watch it above. PREVIOUSLY, AUGU…

Is Jim Carrey finally in a "good place?" We're not sure after today's TCA Showtime panel on Kidding. The quirky actor acknowledged his lifelong quest for "meaningful and interesting and satisfying" experiences has reached a peak in recent days. "I couldn't be in a better place,” he said. But later, he mildly scolded a…

An inventive artist known for his ability to craft tactile, emotional, and colorfully surreal worlds, Michel Gondry's love of the handmade is deeply felt. The Oscar winner behind 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gondry recently brought his distinct taste and style to Kidding, a dark comedy from Dave…

On Dave Holstein's Kidding, production designer Maxwell Orgell faced a classic artistic challenge, crafting sets for a show-within-a-show. Following the downward spiral of a Mr. Rogers type, the dark comedy centered on Mr. Pickles' Puppet Time, a nostalgia-inducing kids' program with touches of the surreal. Conceived…

Jim Carrey is using his artistry and political platform on Twitter to not only alert people to “the demon that’s controlling us” he said at Vulture Festival in Los Angeles on Sunday, but also he wants people to know he “would love” to see Beto O’Rourke and Kamala Harris in the presidential race, although he has no…

It's no joke and not much of a surprise, but Kidding is bringing its dark and puppeted humor for a second season on Showtime. "Kidding has established itself as one of the most endearing and inventive shows on television," declared the premium cabler's President of Programming, Gary Levine today of the Jim Carrey and…

Showtime’s flagship series Shameless opened its ninth season — and last with co-lead Emmy Rossum — on Sunday with 1.31 million viewers for its 9 PM premiere telecast. While that was down from the dramedy’s Season 8 debut (1.86 million), it was higher than its Season 7 opener (1.24 million) and than any other recent…

There is a lot that is not very funny about the decidedly bleak Showtime series Kidding from Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry, and that's both good and bad. Taking viewers behind the scenes of a long-running children's TV series Mr. Pickles’ Puppet Time and the damaged people literally and figuratively pulling the…

There’s no question about it: What worked on screen in regards to comedy a few years ago, isn’t clicking anymore as the genre makes its way to the exits for a place on streaming or cable. A majority of major studio comedies over the last two years, with the exception of Girls Trip, Bad Moms, and Sausage Party, haven’t…