EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Partners has closed a deal with Edgar Wright to develop, direct and executive produce Stage 13, with Saturday Night Live alum Simon Rich writing the script and also producing.
Producing along with Rich is Wright’s producing partner Nira Park, who co-founded Complete Fiction with Wright and has…
“I’ve always been interested in the dark ages because it’s such an extremely terrible time in human history. It’s a time of widespread misinformation, rampant inequality and pervading sense of doom and fear and desperation. I thought it might be fun to see if we could use it as a metaphor to grapple with some of the…
TBS has ordered a second season of Miracle Workers, its anthology comedy that will move stars Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Buscemi from heaven to the depths of medieval times.
Geraldine Viswanathan and Karan Soni also star in the Broadway Video series created by Simon Rich. Its inaugural season saw Radcliffe playing a…
Simon Rich’s TBS series Miracle Workers came out of his concern about the number of random and horrible things happening all the time and that maybe the guy upstairs is in the midst of a full-on midlife crisis.
Asked how a "guy who is omnipotent" could have a midlife crisis, Rich wasn’t stumped. “On our show he is not…
In Simon Rich's show Miracle Workers, Daniel Radcliffe gets his wings as a control-freak angel called Craig—a role he says he had to take as soon as Rich told him the premise.
"Sometimes you just find material where you're like, 'I want to do this, I want to be a part of this," Radcliffe told Deadline at the Sundance…
EXCLUSIVE: Man Seeking Woman creator Simon Rich has signed a two-year overall deal with ABC Studios. Under the pact, he has landed a put pilot commitment at ABC for a family comedy headlined and produced by The Last Man on Earth star Kristen Schaal — a match made in cult favorite, off-kilter comedy heaven.
Written and…
This season of FXX’s Man Seeking Woman is a major reboot, creator Simon Rich described to TV critics today at TCA.
"This season, I really wanted us to challenge ourselves to take a much bigger swing than we had before," Rich said. "Fortunately I work for John Landgraf; I asked his permission to completely reboot our…
Simon Rich’s Man Seeking Woman has been picked up by FXX for a 10-episode third season to premiere early next year. The renewal comes on the heels of a record-tying two-season pickup for veteran It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. FXX has now renewed all 3 of its current original comedy series — Sonny and 2015…
On the heels of a second season renewal of FXX comedy Man Seeking Woman, FX Prods. has inked a two-year overall deal with the series’ creator, showrunner and executive producer Simon Rich and his production company, Allegash Industries. In addition to continuing his work on Man Seeking Woman, Rich will develop future…
Simon Rich, creator of FXX’s new Man Seeking Woman, says he’s “very relieved” his father “is not a current television critic.”
Rich’s series stars Jay Baruchel as Josh Greenberg, a naive romantic desperately looking for love in the digital dating era. Early episodes include a scene in which both of Josh’s hands walk…
If you're looking for a good laugh and something very out of the ordinary, then I suggest checking outMan Seeking Woman when it debuts on FXX on Wednesday night. As I say in my video review above, this Jay Baruchel-starring show about a good-hearted but unlucky-in-love twenty-something nebbish named Josh is a…