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After several attempts to revive Reno 911!, Thomas Lennon finally pulled it off, partnering with Quibi for a seventh season and earning his first Emmy nomination, right as he "slipped under and turned 50." Created by and starring Lennon, Kerri Kenney and Robert Ben Garant, the Reno-set series is a spoof of law…

The second season of the CBS All Access anthology reboot of The Twilight Zone has added a robust list of cast members that will travel through another dimension…a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A dimension called The Twilight Zone. Added to the 10-episode sophomore season of Jordan Peele and Simon…

Found footage movies are of the horror genre, but filmmaker Jack Henry Robbins is changing all that with his forthcoming comedy VHYES. Oscilloscope Laboratories released the first trailer for the film and as you can see, it takes found footage to a whole new — and kind of bizarre — level. As seen in the trailer, the…

EXCLUSIVE: The magical menace called Mxyzptlk is returning to National City. Thomas Lennon (The State) is set to recur as the mercurial trickster in the fifth season of the CW’s Supergirl. Mxyzptlk, aka “Mxy,” is the impish, reality-bending trickster from the 5th Dimension, who previously visited National City to woo…

Joel McHale and Thomas Lennon have joined the cast of Treat Street, a Halloween-set family adventure film that will be the directorial debut of Stimson Snead. The pic, produced by North By Northwest, will shoot next spring in Spokane, WA. The plot centers on a group of kids out trick-or-treating who run into the most…

If Fox aimed to take a swipe at Felicity Huffman on the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards tonight, they missed by a wide margin – as any glance at the calendar would have shown them. “The producers have asked me to give a special shout-out to our previous lead actress winners who are watching from prison. Hopefully those…

Reposted from 9/20: This marks the first Primetime Emmy Awards for the newly independent Fox Entertainment, and the network is looking to put its stamp on the ceremony with several tweaks. The biggest, of course, is going host-less for only the fourth time in Emmy history and for the first time since 2003, also on…

Quibi’s busy month continues as it pops the cork on another shortform series announcement. The Odd Couple and Reno 911! alum Thomas Lennon is set to create, write, executive produce and star in Winos, a workplace comedy for Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s digital platform. The logline: After failing spectacularly…

EXCLUSIVE: Rogers & Cowan has tapped Rob Greenwald as Vice President on their talent team, and he’ll be spearheading a new comedy division at the public relations firm as well as work with their sports and talent clientele. Greenwald, a former Forefront Media executive of six years who rose through the ranks to Vice…

Thomas Lennon, coming off starring role opposite Matthew Perry in CBS’ multi-camera comedy series The Odd Couple, has been tapped to play the title character in Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot Dan the Weatherman. The project hails from from The Life & Times of Tim creator Steve Dildarian, Tomorrow Studios and 20th…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is negotiating with Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant to write and Rawson Thurber to direct a relaunch of the Cannonball Run franchise. Andre Morgan and Alan Gasmer (Vikings) are producing. Studio set this up last year, originally intending for Etan Cohen to both write and direct. Lennon…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA's five new partners and the other agents who made the move from CAA are settling in and have begun reeling in some important clients in play since last week’s shocker. UTA is keeping mum at the moment on who is signing on, but I’ve heard that as many as 150 clients are coming into the fold. This follows…