By Carl Unegbu, ComedyBeat | When money and comedy mix, sometimes things can get way too funny. Like at ABC, where even though the station’s comedy Family Tools is still months away from its debut, one of its stars Leah Remini is already locked in a messy squabble with her handlers over her fat pay check from the show. And [...]
By Andrea Morabito, Broadcasting & Cable | Jimmy Kimmel Live’s week of shows in Brooklyn will go on as planned despite Hurricane Sandy threatening the East Coast. A spokesperson for the ABC late night show said Sunday afternoon that they are bringing in back-up generators so they will be able to do the show in the event of a power [...]
By Meg James, Los Angeles Times | Sunday night’s broadcast of the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards on ABC generated an estimated 1 million tweets, according to Bluefin Labs, which measures social media traffic. Facebook friends contributed another 24,000 comments about the Emmy Awards, which were hosted by ABC’s late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. Traffic levels represented a 148% increase in social [...]
By Scott Collins, Los Angeles Times | Jay and Dave, you’ve been warned. Following a flurry of rumors last week, ABC confirmed Tuesday that it will move “Jimmy Kimmel Live” earlier by a half-hour, to 11:35 p.m., starting Jan. 8. With his new time slot, ABC’s Kimmel is making a bid to shove aside the two elder statesman of late-night [...]
By Rob Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | With Thursday’s announcement of The CW’s fall schedule, the week of broadcast network upfronts came to a close. What did prime-time observers learn? Well, aside from The CW, which airs only one-hour dramas, comedy is king once again. ABC, NBC and Fox all added more comedy to their prime-time lineups for fall with 9 [...]
By Reuters | Late-night TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel admits he is anxious about headlining his first White House Correspondents Dinner this coming Saturday, and his self-confessed lack of insight into Washington doesn’t help calm his nerves. The star of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” told Reuters his interest in politics is roughly equal to his interest in sports — and in [...]
By Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter | ABC has given pilot orders to a comedy starring Mandy Moore. Moore is going from the drama of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy to a family comedy at the network, with the Disney-owned network ordering an untitled single-camera comedy from 20th Television that explores the inherent conflict that exists between the families you grow up [...]
By Steven Herbert, City News Service | “Work It,” a comedy that has drawn criticism from two national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy organizations for its treatment of two unemployed men who dress as women to get jobs, premieres at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday on ABC. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the Human Rights Campaign placed a [...]
By Kelly West, Cinemablend.com | Joining ABC’s Wednesday night comedy block is Suburgatory, a fish-out-of-water comedy about a father and daughter who leave the city behind and settle down in the suburbs. Between the cast and the set-up, there’s definitely something worth watching here. Created by Emily Kapnek, Suburgatory stars Jeremy Sisto (Six Feet Under, Clueless) as George, a concerned [...]
By Brian Stelter, New York Times | If, after 48 episodes, there was still any doubt that “Modern Family” is the most adored sitcom on television, it was eliminated here at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday night. The telecast began with four awards in a row to members of the “Modern Family” team, and it ended the same [...]
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