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Apple is in final negotiations on a series order for a musical comedy project starring Saturday Night Live‘s Cecily Strong, from Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video, Despicable Me duo Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, and Universal TV. Written by Paul and Daurio, the as-yet untitled comedy series follows a couple on a backpacking…

Today is a comedy pilot pickup day at NBC as the network made the bulk of its half-hour orders within the past several hours. NBC has given pilot green light to three single-camera projects: Someone Out There, a romantic comedy based on a Spanish format, from Forever creator Matt Hubbard and the writing team of Josh…

Kenan Thompson, who is in his 17th season as a performer on Saturday Night Live, covered a wide range of show lore in a 90-minute appearance Sunday at the New Yorker Festival. The firing of debut cast member Shane Gillis in September before his first episode and after racist jokes and comments surfaced online…

UPDATED with video: Saturday Night Live‘s Emmy win Sunday was hardly unexpected, but the show’s usually stoic creator Lorne Michaels delivered a surprisingly emotional acceptance speech, taking the time to make a touching tribute to the late Chris Farley. Accepting the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series – a…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has ordered a second season of Los Espookys, its half-hour primarily Spanish-language comedy series from Saturday Night Live alum Fred Armisen and Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video. Created and written by Armisen, Ana Fabrega and Julio Torres, the series is set in a strange and dreamy version of a…

Saturday Night Live veterans Paula Pell, John Lutz, Lorne Michaels and Seth Meyers are teaming on Mapleworth Murders, a comedic murder mystery series for Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s short-form video platform Quibi. Universal TV is the studio. Written by and starring Pell and Lutz, Mapleworth Murders centers…

Lorne Michaels has claimed that Saturday Night Live would struggle to get off the ground if it launched today due to budgetary constraints and move towards "narrowcasting". The SNL creator was giving a keynote address at the Cannes Lions advertising event in France, where he also touched on the history of the show…

Comedy Central’s The Other Two satirizes the world of social media and YouTube fame within a family dynamic and has proved to be so on point that a second season is in the works. At Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys on Sunday, co-creator and EP Sarah Schneider said the upcoming season likely will dig into the newfound…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video have purchased feature rights to The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior. The film is based on the biography by former Navy SEAL Rob O'Neill, who revealed in the book that he was the SEAL who killed…

NBC has ordered a pilot presentation for Village Gazette, a single-camera comedy from Amber Ruffin, who also will star, Seth Meyers and Mike Shoemaker’s Sethmaker Shoemakers Productions, Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video and Universal TV. Written by Ruffin and Shelly Gossman (Saturday Night Live), Village Gazette centers…

TBS has set February 12 for the premiere of Miracle Workers, the seven-episode limited series from Man Seeking Woman creator Simon Rich and executive produced by Lorne Michaels. We’re also getting the first look at the heaven-set workplace comedy starring Steve Buscemi as God and Daniel Radcliffe as his low-level…

EXCLUSIVE: Syfy has given a 12-episode order to Alien News Desk, a weekly half-hour topical animated series starring Will Forte and Heidi Gardner. The show, which will debut in early 2019, marks Syfy’s first original late-night animated series. Alien News Desk has a strong Saturday Night Live pedigree. In addition to…