The long-gestating Deadwood movie is slowly but surely moving toward production. During HBO’s portion of TCA, HBO president Casey Bloys confirmed that the network is looking at fall 2018 for production to start.
“Assuming that we could get all the actors back together, I think this is something we would do possibly…
Robert Michael Morris' passing on May 30 was a blow to the cast and crew of The Comeback – the show on which the 77-year-old actor played best friend and hairdresser to Lisa Kudrow’s Valerie Cherish.Â
During a panel discussion today at the ATX fest in Austin, Kudrow paid tribute to the actor, as did EPs Dan Bucatinsky…
 NBC’s This Is Us is coming to Austin, Texas as cast members Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, and creator Dan Fogelman will be at the ATX Television Festival this summer for a panel on the hit breakout series.
Joining them will be NBC Entertainment president Jennifer Salke and EP Ken Olin.
There’s also a 30-year reunion…
Mirroring the trajectory of Vice President Selina Meyer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus has taken home her 4th consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a comedy for Veep. The win, her fifth overall, ties her with Candice Bergen and Mary Tyler Moore for most wins ever in the category. She won for the final season four…
At the tail end of The Comeback's triumphant second season return—after nine years off the air—Lisa Kudrow's Valerie Cherish, a fading former sitcom star desperate to return to the limelight, gets what she really wants: an Emmy award. As votes start to come in for this year's accolades, Kudrow surely deserves…
The past was all new on HBO on Sunday night with the return of both The Newsroom andThe Comeback. Tackling coverage and the media ethics of the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, the Aaron Sorkin-created series debuted its final season to a viewership of 1.2 million at 9 PM. That was followed, according to…
The Comeback is back on HBO on Sunday after almost a decade. And, as my video review says, the ahead-of its-time series could show even Kim Kardashian West what real celebrity self-obsession looks like. Though unscripted TV has caught up to what Lisa Kudrow’s Valerie Cherish was doing back in 2005, the character and…
Lisa Kudrow reprises her role as Valerie Cherish in The Comeback, which returns to HBO on November 9. The second season follows the original 2005 run that saw Cherish’s formerly in-demand TV starlet agree to allow cameras follow her every move, reality-style, as she appeared in a new sitcom — with disastrous results…
New seasons of The Newsroom, The Comeback and Getting On will premiere back-to-back on Sunday, November 9 beginning at 9 PM, HBO said today. The Newsroom‘s six-episode, third and final season will debut in the 9 PM slot. It will be followed by the eight-episode Lisa Kudrow-starrer The Comeback at 10 PM and the…
Various parties have different versions of why HBO is bringing back its one-season comedy series The Comeback, whose last season in original episodes was 2005. Co-creator Michael Patrick King said he and co-creator/star Lisa Kudrow used to talk about lead character Valerie over the years and wondered what she was up…
Besides star/co-creator Lisa Kudrow, Kellan Lutz and Malin Akerman are probably the biggest names among the alumni of HBO‘s cult comedy series The Comeback. After some juggling, I’ve learned that both are now set to reprise their roles as romantically linked Chris and Juna. None is expected to appear in all six…
Mark L. Young (We’re The Millers)Â has landed a recurring role on HBO‘s The Comeback. The six-episode followup to the cult 2005 comedy starring Lisa Kudrow is set to return this fall. The original show starred Kudrow as washed-up sitcom actress Valerie Cherish, who gets a reality show documenting her attempt at a…
