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Maya Rudolph, who won an Emmy for playing Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Live, said she felt anxious watching Harris debate Vice President Mike Pence, knowing it would be fodder for this week’s show. Then along came the fly. “I don’t think it was until the fly landed on his head that I kind of took a breath and sort…

Best-selling author and comedian Sarah Cooper, known for her breakout online video lip-sync impressions of President Donald Trump, has set her first comedy special at Netflix. Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine is slated to premiere globally on the streaming giant this fall. The variety special will feature vignettes…

Fox's animated comedy Bless The Harts is adding a number of guest stars to its second season. Ken Jeong, Kristen Schaal and Natasha Lyonne are joining the series ahead of its September 27 return. Schaal, who voices Louise in Bob's Burgers, joins alongside her husband Rich Blomquist, who voices Daniel in Bless The Harts…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Lee Daniels is set to go into production next month in Montreal on The United States vs. Billie Holiday, a project he will direct and produce about the legendary jazz singer. The pic follows Holiday (played by multi Grammy and NAACP nominee singer-songwriter Andra Day) during her…

On July 16, Netflix's Russian Doll pulled off a somewhat magical feat, garnering 13 Emmy nominations and breaking in as a contender for Outstanding Comedy Series with its first season, after gaining a following as a word-of-mouth hit. Given the otherworldly nature of the series, these results were all too…

Natasha Lyonne is set to direct an episode of Comedy Central’s as-yet-untitled Awkwafina project. This immediately follows Lyonne’s stint helming an episode of Hulu’s High Fidelity reboot series. She will also direct an episode of Shrill, the streamer’s Aidy Bryant-starrer. “I was directing High Fidelity mostly in…

A three-time Emmy nominee with a 33-year screen career, Natasha Lyonne has wanted to employ her talents behind the scenes for as long as she can remember, finally doing so with her Netflix hit Russian Doll. Today, the series earned 13 Emmy nominations in its first go-round, demonstrating to the actress beyond the…

When production designer Michael Bricker was approached for Russian Doll, he had only "a very contained set of knowledge" about the series with which to craft his pitch. Reading over the pilot script without others to go on, Bricker had "no sense of what was going to happen over the course of the season," recognizing…

Netflix has picked up Russian Doll for an eight-episode second season, announcing the renewal during an interview of co-creator/star Natasha Lyonne and Netflix content VP Cindy Holland by Kara Swisher at Recode’s annual Code Conference. "Want to do a season two, Natasha?" Holland asked Lyonne on the panel. (See full…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Jacqueline Novak will launch a new Off Broadway comedy at The Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village this summer, and if the title and subject matter don’t get your attention, the comedy world support certainly will. Executive produced by Mike Birbiglia and presented by Natasha…

The binge-watching model of watching TV series on streaming platforms has become commonplace, but how do we, as a society, evolve that? Russian Doll co-creators, executive producers and writers Leslye Headland, Amy Poehler and Natasha Lyonne (who also stars) are here to take on that challenge with their existential…

A series about reliving your death over and over again has the making for a great comedy but it also runs the risk of, as the premise suggests, repetitive. But the Netflix comedy Russian Doll steps up to the challenge with co-creators, executive producers and writers Leslye Headland, Amy Poehler and Natasha Lyonne…