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Please Like Me creator/star Josh Thomas announced the news via Twitter that his original series would not return for a fifth season. “The other producers and I have decided that Season 4 of Please Like Me is the last,” he wrote. “We decided this because we are really happy with what we’ve made and feel like it is…

Please Like Me star Josh Thomas, attending his first TCA since Participant Media killed his show’s first home, Pivot network (Hulu picked up the fourth season, premiering today, January 7) confided that TCA’s make him nervous. That’s because the first one he attended was on the occasion of Pivot’s launch and he was on…

On the heels of acquiring exclusive SVOD rights to Australian comedy Please Like Me, Hulu has picked up the fourth season of the critically praised series for the U.S. The Participant Media original series, which previously aired on Participant’s Pivot network, will debut its fourth season in the U.S. on Hulu early…

Participant Media is shutting down its TV cable network Pivot, after a re-evaluation of their core business. Pivot TV launched in 2013. Parcipant’s CEO David Linde said, “As the media landscape changes, we have been evaluating how we fulfill our mission to entertain and inspire social action around the world's most…

EXCLUSIVE: Pivot has given a Season 4 greenlight to Please Like Me, Josh Thomas’ coming-of-age comedy from Australia. Production gets under way this week in Melbourne on the six-episode new season, which will premiere November 10. Creator-writer-director Thomas stars as Josh alongside Thomas Ward, Caitlin Stasey…

Pivot said this afternoon it has greenlit The Operatives, an original series spotlighting an elite team of conservationists that takes on the world’s worst eco-offenders. The series stars Pete Bethune, who is described by Pivot as an “adventurer, author and eco-warrior.” He and his team of “extreme conservationists&#8221…