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As former Saturday Night Live cast member Will Forte said in his opening monologue tonight, it took getting his MacGruber the series to launch on Peacock for him to finally be invited to host the late-night sketch program 12 years after he’d left. In the monologue, Forte announced a Season 2 renewal for MacGruber…

Peacock has revealed MacGruber is set to premiere on Dec. 16 with a first look teaser featuring stars Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe, and Billy Zane. The eight-episode action-comedy is based on Forte's recurring MacGyver parody sketch on Saturday Night Live and its 2010 cult movie offshoot. Co-written and…

In a recasting, Billy Zane (True Story, Titanic) has joined the cast of MacGruber, Peacock’s eight-episode action comedy series based on Will Forte's recurring MacGyver parody sketch on Saturday Night Live and its 2010 cult movie offshoot. Timothy V. Murphy (Westworld, True Detective) will reprise his role from the…

Peacock is stacking up the cast of MacGruber, the eight-episode action comedy series based on Will Forte's recurring MacGyver parody sketch on Saturday Night Live and its 2010 cult movie offshoot. Sam Elliott, Laurence Fishburne and Mickey Rourke have joined the series, from Universal Television, joining Forte, Kristen…

NBCUniversal’s streaming platform Peacock continues to build up its original comedy slate with a straight-to-series series order to MacGruber, starring, co-written and executive produced by Will Forte. The action comedy, which stems from Forte’s recurring MacGyver parody sketch on Saturday Night Live, was part of…

Ahead of Comcast’s investor presentation today to officially unveil NBCUniversal’s upcoming streaming service Peacock, the platform has announced its inaugural development slate. It includes comedies MacGruber, starring and co-written by Will Forte; and Clean Slate, starring and co-written by Laverne Cox and George…