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EXCLUSIVE: PEN15 co-creator and star Anna Konkle’s latest memoir The Sane One has landed at Random House in a highly competitive situation. In the book she tells the story of growing up in a dysfunctional household, with parents who were separated but chose to remain living under the same roof on opposite sides of the…

Hulu’s Pen15 is an opus to that era in middle school when all of us were just awkwardly navigating our raging hormones while feeling like an outcast. The “traumedy” returns for a second season September 18 and the show’s creators and stars Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine took to the virtual stage after premiering the…

Hulu’s coming-of-age comedy PEN15 won its first major award tonight, but the creators/stars/executive producers were not on hand to receive it. “Gotham Awards, thank you!,” co-creator, star and exec producer Anna Konkle wrote on Twitter Monday night after PEN15 was named winner for Breakthrough Series – Short Form…

Hulu has ordered second seasons of its freshman comedies Pen15 and Ramy. The news comes two weeks after the streamer renewed its other rookie sitcom, Shrill. Set for a 14-episode Season 2, Pen15 is described as “middle school as it actually happened.” The series from AwesomenessTV is co-written, created by and stars…

Being 13 years old in junior high is one of the most awkward and eye-opening times in one’s life, and the Hulu series Pen15 paints a beautifully cringe-worthy picture of the formative time. Created by Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle and Sam Zvibleman, the prepubescent comedy takes place in 2000 during the TRL era of delia’s…

Reviewing TV this week and pinning the badge on the show you have to watch is hard. Especially when the relentlessly ongoing reality series know as Celebrity POTUS had a special, belated, much hyped and well-watched State of the Union episode last night with guest star House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. However, beyond the…

Hulu has released the official trailer for PEN15, its new comedy series starring real-life longtime buds, Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle. According to the official logline, PEN15 is middle school as it really happened. Erskine and Konkle play versions of themselves as 13-year-old outcasts in the year 2000, surrounded by…