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It's easy to underestimate the amount of hours and sheer craft that go into designing a title sequence, which, in a minute or less, has to capture the essence of a series. One of the more notable this year is that of the Tina Fey-Robert Carlock-produced Netflix comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Its 30-second duration…

ABC has added two more comedy pilots to its slate today — Family Fortune starring actor-comedian Fortune Feimster, from Matt Hubbard, Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, and a remake of Uncle Buck produced by Will Packer (the Ride Along and Think Like A Man franchises). Both projects hail from Universal TV, Uncle Buck…

Golden Globe Awards co-hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have not written their material for Sunday’s trophy show, Fey said this morning at TCA Winter TV Press Tour 2015. “We haven’t written the show yet — we’ve got to hurry up!” Fey joked, adding that she does know exactly what she's going to wear Sunday night. "I'm…

Netflix has stepped in to pick up cancelled series before — The Killing, Arrested Development and most recently Longmire. Now the streaming service is taking over a series that has not yet premiered, midseason NBC comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, from Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. Netflix has doubled the 13-episode…

It’s a 30 Rock reunion! I’ve learned that 30 Rock alumna Jane Krakowski has joined the cast of upcoming NBC comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, from 30 Rock creator/star/executive producer Tina Fey and executive producer Robert Carlock. Krakowski will recur on the project, starring Ellie Kemper as the wide-eyed…

Sara Chase and Lauren Adams have joined NBC comedy series Tooken from 30 Rock’s Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. It centers on Kimmy (Ellie Kemper), who escapes from a doomsday cult and starts life over in New York. Chase, repped by TalentWorks and Perennial Entertainment, will play Cyndee, Kimmy’s best friend from the…

30 Rock executive producers/showrunners Tina Fey and Robert Carlock will be back on NBC next fall with a new New York-based single-camera series starring another familiar NBC face, The Office alumna Ellie Kemper. The network has given a straight-to-series 13-episode order to the untitled project, written by Fey and…

Comedian John Mulaney is surrounding himself with some comedy heavyweights on his NBC pilot. After lengthy negotiations, Elliott Gould and Martin Short are set to co-star opposite Mulaney in his untitled multi-camera comedy, from Lorne Michaels, 3 Arts and Universal TV. Written/exec produced by Mulaney and exec…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has closed a deal for Turkey Bowl, a comedy that will re-team The Other Guys stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as guys from football-obsessed towns who lead rival teams in an annual tackle football game for bragging and trash-talking rights. The tackle games are grandiose, and I’m told they…

UPDATE: Co-showrunners Tina Fey and Robert Carlock confirmed that 30 Rock will keep poking fun at new NBC Universal owner Comcast next season even more than this past season — though not by name. Here’s the “Kabletown” website already, filled with details about the “GE Sheinhardt NBC Universal partnership and…