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Walton Goggins didn't just walk into the role of Lee Russell in HBO’s Vice Principals. Instead, it took him years to land the part. The series, co-created by Jody Hill and Goggins’ co-star Danny McBride, earned Goggins a best supporting actor Critics’ Choice Award. It wrapped its two-season run at the end of last…

EXCLUSIVE: Walton Goggins has sealed a deal to join Disney/Marvel’s Ant-Man And The Wasp, the sequel to the superhero pic that stars Paul Rudd. Casting outside returning star Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man, as well as the plot, has been mostly kept under typical Marvel-esque wraps, but Goggins has inked and the production…

Ring-ring goes the bell. HBO said today that the second and final season of Vice Principals will premiere just as the new school year kicks in. The angry comedy returns with the first of nine new episodes at 10:30 PM Sunday, September 17. Watch the S2 trailer above. The show’s sophomore year sees the tumultuous school…

Just over a week after being hacked and seeing her personal information and private photographs posted online, Leslie Jones was back online today with praise for TV comedies old and new. Absent from Twitter since August 23, the Saturday Night Live cast member and Ghostbusters star gave digital shout-outs to The Golden…

The cast and creatives of HBO’s Vice Principals rebuffed criticism at today’s TCA for the series’ depiction of two white men pitted against an African American female character. Kimberly Hebert Gregory, who plays principal Dr. Belinda Brow quickly dismissed the negative notion, stating “This is what casting equality…

If you were a fan of Eastbound & Down, then I'm pretty sure you'll love Danny McBride and co-creator Jody Hill's new HBO series Vice Principals — which goes even meaner and cuts closer to home than Kenny Powers almost ever did. Starring McBride and Justified's Walton Goggins as the scheming, underhanded and ambitious…

HBO is adding some comedy to its San Diego Comic-Con lineup this year with Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley and the new Danny McBride-Jody Hill series Vice Principals added to the mix. On Thursday, July 21 at 4PM in the Indigo Ballroom at the Hilton Bayfront, Silicon Valley co-creator/EP Judge will join EP Alec Berg and…

HBO has staked out summer dates for a trio of programs. Limited series The Night Of bows at 9 PM July 10, followed a week later by Season 2 of the Dwayne Johnson pro football comedy Ballers and the premiere of dark comedy Vice Principals, from the creators of the premium channel’s Eastbound & Down. Created by Steven…

In his biggest comedy series commitment to date, Justified, Sons Of Anarchy and The Shield‘s Walton Goggins has been cast as the co-lead opposite Danny McBride in Vice Principals, HBO's comedy from Eastbound & Down creators McBride and Jody Hill. Also cast in the 18-episode series is another actor known for drama TV…

With Cougar Town wrapping its six-season run, the comedy’s co-star Busy Philipps has joined Vice Principals, HBO's 18-episode comedy series from Eastbound & Down creators Danny McBride and Jody Hill. Vice Principals tells the story of a high school and the people who almost run it: the vice principals, Neal Gamby…

The New Normal star Georgia King is set as a female lead opposite Danny McBride in Vice Principals, HBO's 18-episode comedy series from Eastbound & Down creators McBride and Jody Hill. Vice Principals tells the story of a high school and the people who almost run it: the vice principals, one of them played by McBride…

Selfie regular Da'vine Joy Randolph has been cast as a female lead in Vice Principals, HBO’s 18-episode comedy series from Eastbound & Down creators Danny McBride and Jody Hill. Also cast in the series, created by McBride and Hill, is Sheaun McKinney (Graceland). Vice Principals tells the story of a high school and…