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"With 190 days to go to Tokyo, we can proudly say, let the games begin," declared Mike Tirico today at the Peacock Investors Day in the most streamlined offering from the new additions to the streaming wars so far. The competition was clearly more than the Summer Games of the XXXII Olympiad, if you know what I mean…

30 Rock creator and star Tina Fey took the stage at NBCUniversal’s 30 Rock headquarters to announce that she is executive producing one of the first original series for NBCU’s upcoming streaming platform, Peacock. Girls5Eva is a comedy about a one-hit-wonder girl group from the ’90s that reunites to give their pop…

Less than a week after the telecast of the 2020 Golden Globes hosted by Ricky Gervais in his fifth turn, NBC on Saturday announced that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will return as hosts for the fourth time next January. In contrast,  a few days earlier, ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke confirmed at TCA that the…

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are returning to host the Golden Globes in 2021. The announcement was made by NBC Entertainment Chairman Paul Telegdy during the network's day at the Television Critics Association Tour in Pasadena. They replace Ricky Gervais, who hosted this year. It marks the return of Fey and Poehler, who…

Social media icon and musician Cameron Dallas will make his Broadway debut in the role of "Aaron Samuels" in Tina Fey’s Mean Girls, the show’s producers have announced. Dallas will play the role in a four-week run during Kyle Selig's leave of absence starting Tuesday, January 14 at the August Wilson Theatre on 245…

Oscar and Emmy-winning actress Holly Hunter is set to star alongside Ted Danson in NBC’s new untitled L.A. mayor comedy from Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, 3 Arts Entertainment and Universal Television. Written by Fey and Carlock (30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), the Carlock-Fey project stars Danson as a wealthy…

Disney and Pixar released the first Soul teaser this morning, giving us a look at exactly how stars Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey will be portrayed as beings of the hereafter. Or a hereafter-like place where souls are refined before being sent off to human bodies. The teaser doesn’t quite say, but we do see the Foxx’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Bobby Moynihan is returning to NBC. The Saturday Night Live alum has been cast in a lead role opposite Ted Danson on the network’s single-camera comedy series from the 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt duo of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. The comedy, which has a straight-to-series order, is about a…

Amazon has posted a full trailer for its forthcoming romantic comedy anthology series Modern Love. The SVOD service is launching the series, from John Carney, on October 18. It previously released a trailer for the show, which is based on the popular New York Times column of the same name, without any dialogue and now…

Disney’s Pixar revealed Saturday at the D23 Expo that the animation studio’s new film Soul will be toplined by Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey. The pic is set to be the second original Pixar film for 2020 after March’s Onward, and it has a June 19, 2020 release date. Directed by two-time Oscar winner Pete Docter, who was…

Three of NBC’s iconic comedy veterans are teaming on a new series. The network has given a straight-to-series order to a comedy starring The Good Place‘s Ted Danson, from Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, 3 Arts Entertainment and Universal Television. Written by Fey and Carlock (30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), the as-yet…

When I sat down in New York City with Tina Fey for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series, Behind The Lens, I started talking to her about how many Emmys she has.  She wasn’t quite sure of the number so I told her I believe it is 9 wins on 45 nominations.  She is likely to add at least one other nomination to…