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A day after it was announced that Girls creators Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner were going their own ways with different production pacts at HBO, the latter showed up without the former at today’s TCA session for their next comedy series Camping.  “We feel super lucky to have had eight amazing years together, we just…

HBO is pitching its Camping tent in the fall. The premium cabler said today that its new comedy starring Jennifer Garner and David Tennant will premiere Sunday, October 14. At TCA today, also set the premiere dates for a pair of comedy specials: Flight of the Conchords: Live at the London Apollo will touch down…

Longtime friends and producing partners Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner have decided to go their separate ways, work-wise. The two have decided to split as producing partners before their joint overall deal for their A Casual Romance Productions banner expires in December at HBO, Deadline has confirmed. Dunham and…

Despite the fact that lack of good writing is not the problem Laurie Metcalf and John Goodman are suffering from this week, Mindy Kaling and Lena Dunham both have offered to come to their rescue and, as Kaling put it, “write things for you.” Metcalf and Goodman found themselves suddenly hit-sitcom-less this week when A…

Camping star Jennifer Garner has posted the first cast photo from the set of the upcoming HBO comedy series. "Let us commence," she writes in the caption. "The cast of #HBOCamping before we're sunburned and covered in ticks." <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BhMPq0SBvUA/" style=" background:#FFFFFF…

Juliette Lewis is set as a series regular opposite Jennifer Garner and David Tennant in HBO's new half-hour comedy series Camping. Based on the British series created by Julia Davis, the project hails from the Girls duo of creator/executive producer Lena Dunham and executive producer Jenni Konner. Production begins…

Girls creator Lena Dunham came to SXSW not to talk about an upcoming project, but to focus on authenticity in media. Along with newly minted Glamour editor Samantha Barry, Dunham started talking about what authenticity means to her, which led to the criticism she has received since the start of her HBO series. Dunham…

CAA has signed former Girls executive producers and current producing partners Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, ending their long association with UTA. Dunham was at UTA when she burst onto the scene as a 24-year-old in 2010 with her second feature, the micro-budgeted Tiny Furniture. The same year, she teamed with fellow…

With the candor that distinguishes both her personal life and her art, Girls creator Lena Dunham has disclosed that she underwent a total hysterectomy in recent months to end the years-long chronic pain of endometriosis. Dunham shares the personal information in an essay in the upcoming March issue of Vogue, portions…

Jennifer Garner is returning to television in new half-hour comedy series Camping, which has been greenlighted by HBO with an eight-episode order. Based on the British series created by Julia Davis, the project hails from the Girls duo of creator/executive producer Lena Dunham and executive producer Jenni Konner…

Hillary Rodham Clinton will join the 2018 Makers Conference live from New York for the closing session of the three-day event that seeks to underscore the stories of trailblazing women. The former Democratic presidential nominee will appear via satellite at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, the final day of a conference that…

Lena Dunham has backed down and apologized for defending Girls writer Murray Miller, who is being investigated for sexually assaulting actress Aurora Perrineau when she was age 17. Dunham issued a long tweet on Friday supporting Miller, adding Girls executive producer Jenni Konner’s name as another ally of Miller. “We…