Exclusive: Comedian Brad Williams has unveiled his latest comedy special, Starfish, announcing that it will premiere exclusively on the streaming platform Veeps on Thursday, December 21st around 5 p.m. Pt.
Williams’ new hour, filmed at Sony Hall in New York City, sees him talk about navigating relationships and everyday life as a little person. He says that he selected the 21st as its premiere date given the fact that
“it’s the shortest day of the year!”
While the special will be available for free for Veeps All Access subscribers, fans can purchase individual tickets on veeps.com for $14.99 with pre-order code Brad, or for $19.99 day of show. All Access subscribers will be able to enjoy it as many times as they like for a full year following the livestream, with the special to be made available to other ticket holders for seven days post-airing.
Directors for Brad Williams: Starfish...
Williams’ new hour, filmed at Sony Hall in New York City, sees him talk about navigating relationships and everyday life as a little person. He says that he selected the 21st as its premiere date given the fact that
“it’s the shortest day of the year!”
While the special will be available for free for Veeps All Access subscribers, fans can purchase individual tickets on veeps.com for $14.99 with pre-order code Brad, or for $19.99 day of show. All Access subscribers will be able to enjoy it as many times as they like for a full year following the livestream, with the special to be made available to other ticket holders for seven days post-airing.
Directors for Brad Williams: Starfish...
- 11/2/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Okay, I admittedly came in hot by calling the folks at Comedy Central "cowards" in that headline, because that's probably not the correct word to use to describe a channel that has been letting Trey Parker and Matt Stone run wild for over 25 years. When it was announced last fall that Trevor Noah would be leaving "The Daily Show" after seven fantastic years, fans immediately started fantasy booking his successor. There was a big push for Samantha Bee, of the recently canceled "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" to become the show's first full-time female host, with others hoping the job went to one of Noah's roll of correspondents. Comedy Central instead announced that they would showcase a weekly rotation of guest hosts, with some of comedy's smartest minds sitting behind "The Daily Show" desk.
Things kicked off with "Saturday Night Live" alum Leslie Jones, with Wanda Sykes, D.L. Hughley, Chelsea Handler,...
Things kicked off with "Saturday Night Live" alum Leslie Jones, with Wanda Sykes, D.L. Hughley, Chelsea Handler,...
- 4/7/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Netflix has ordered “The Midnight Gospel,” an animated series from “Adventure Time” creator Pendleton Ward and comedian and host Duncan Trussell. The series will debut on the streaming service in 2020.
Co-creators Ward and Trussell will executive produce the eight-episode series, which is “set in a fantastical universe” and draws on interview clips from Duncan Trussell’s podcast, “Duncan Trussell Family Hour.” The animation production company behind “Big Mouth,” Titmouse Animation, is the studio.
The show centers on Clancy, a “spacecaster with a malfunctioning multiverse simulator [who] leaves the comfort of his home to interview beings living in dying worlds,” according to Netflix.
In addition to Cartoon Network’s “Adventure Time” — which ran for 10 seasons — the Emmy-winning Ward also has in the works the upcoming mini-series “Adventure Time: Distant Lands” for upcoming streaming service HBO Max, which launches in May. Ward’s credits also include “Bravest Warriors,” which he created and voiced,...
Co-creators Ward and Trussell will executive produce the eight-episode series, which is “set in a fantastical universe” and draws on interview clips from Duncan Trussell’s podcast, “Duncan Trussell Family Hour.” The animation production company behind “Big Mouth,” Titmouse Animation, is the studio.
The show centers on Clancy, a “spacecaster with a malfunctioning multiverse simulator [who] leaves the comfort of his home to interview beings living in dying worlds,” according to Netflix.
In addition to Cartoon Network’s “Adventure Time” — which ran for 10 seasons — the Emmy-winning Ward also has in the works the upcoming mini-series “Adventure Time: Distant Lands” for upcoming streaming service HBO Max, which launches in May. Ward’s credits also include “Bravest Warriors,” which he created and voiced,...
- 12/20/2019
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: HBO Max has ordered a script for 1% Happy, a single camera comedy from Ralph Breaks the Internet star Dani Fernandez and The Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr.
The comedy will star Fernandez, who will write the script, and she will also exec produce alongside Wood via his South Park and Princeton Productions banner. Fernandez recently contributed to The Good Immigrant book.
1% Happy centers around a woman who, after a particularly dark period in her life, is forced to move back in with her estranged father and attend weekly group therapy with a class of oddballs. Showing the funny and relatable sides of Clinical Depression, the series challenges both the stigma of mental illness and the United States healthcare system itself.
Wood Jr. has been on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah since 2015 as a correspondent, and in 2017, he was named the host of Comedy Central...
The comedy will star Fernandez, who will write the script, and she will also exec produce alongside Wood via his South Park and Princeton Productions banner. Fernandez recently contributed to The Good Immigrant book.
1% Happy centers around a woman who, after a particularly dark period in her life, is forced to move back in with her estranged father and attend weekly group therapy with a class of oddballs. Showing the funny and relatable sides of Clinical Depression, the series challenges both the stigma of mental illness and the United States healthcare system itself.
Wood Jr. has been on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah since 2015 as a correspondent, and in 2017, he was named the host of Comedy Central...
- 12/10/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Correspondent and stand-up comic, Michael Kosta is set to headline his first one-hour stand-up special on Comedy Central. The untitled special will film at Detroit’s Gem Theatre in Kosta’s home state of Michigan on Friday, November 15 at 7:30 Pm and 9:30 Pm Et and will premiere on Comedy Central in summer 2020.
Kosta has been a fixture on TV since his breakout performance at HBO’s U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, and has since appeared on The Tonight Show, Conan, Late Night with Seth Meyers and @midnight. Prior to The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Kosta co-created, produced and starred in The Comment Section, guest-hosted Attack of the Show and co-hosted Crowd Goes Wild with Regis Philbin. He also served as a correspondent on The Soup spinoff series The Soup Investigates. Kosta starred in Comedy Central Presents: Michael Kosta, and released his comedy album,...
Kosta has been a fixture on TV since his breakout performance at HBO’s U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, and has since appeared on The Tonight Show, Conan, Late Night with Seth Meyers and @midnight. Prior to The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Kosta co-created, produced and starred in The Comment Section, guest-hosted Attack of the Show and co-hosted Crowd Goes Wild with Regis Philbin. He also served as a correspondent on The Soup spinoff series The Soup Investigates. Kosta starred in Comedy Central Presents: Michael Kosta, and released his comedy album,...
- 10/8/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
With the proliferation of both talk shows and sketch programs, the TV academy decided to split the variety series category at the Emmy Awards into two separate categories in 2015 to better recognize achievements in both these genres. There were 17 entries for Best Variety Sketch Series that year. This rose to 20 in 2016 before falling to 18 in 2017 and 19 last year. This year, it has moved back up to 20 such shows on the ballot. And with six series reaping bids, the odds for each entry are pretty good.
All 22,000 plus voting members of the TV academy have until June 24 to cast their ballots for their favorite variety sketch shows. In the past, voters were limited in the number of such shows that they could put forth; this year that cap (which was usually 10 per category) has been lifted. Unlike at the Oscars, voters for the Emmys do not rank their choices and nominees...
All 22,000 plus voting members of the TV academy have until June 24 to cast their ballots for their favorite variety sketch shows. In the past, voters were limited in the number of such shows that they could put forth; this year that cap (which was usually 10 per category) has been lifted. Unlike at the Oscars, voters for the Emmys do not rank their choices and nominees...
- 6/13/2019
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Veteran Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. has signed a first-look development deal with Comedy Central that covers content for television and new media. Under the pact, Woods will headline his third one-hour stand-up special for the network and will also write and star in an original digital series titled The Night Pigeon.
Separate from the new pact, Comedy Central has given a pilot green light to Wood’s Jefferson County: Probation, from Trevor Noah & Aaron McGruder. The project, which had been in the works at Comedy Central for a year, will film in Wood’s hometown of Birmingham, Alabama this May.
Written by Wood and Aaron McGruder (Boondocks), Jefferson County: Probation is based on Wood’s early life. It stars him as a probation officer willing to bend the rules to help the clients he monitors, much to the chagrin of his partner and everyone else in his life.
Separate from the new pact, Comedy Central has given a pilot green light to Wood’s Jefferson County: Probation, from Trevor Noah & Aaron McGruder. The project, which had been in the works at Comedy Central for a year, will film in Wood’s hometown of Birmingham, Alabama this May.
Written by Wood and Aaron McGruder (Boondocks), Jefferson County: Probation is based on Wood’s early life. It stars him as a probation officer willing to bend the rules to help the clients he monitors, much to the chagrin of his partner and everyone else in his life.
- 4/4/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, casting directors have a new master contract, Roy Wood, Jr., is hosting the WGA Awards in New York, and the Santa Barbara Film Festival unveils its opening and closing films.
Contract Ratification
Casting directors and casting associates have ratified a three-year successor agreement to its master contract with studios and networks, covering about 400 professionals in Los Angeles and 100 in New York.
Reps for Teamsters Local 399 in Hollywood and Local 817 in New York reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers after four days of talks last month. Ratification meetings were held Thursday.
Local 399 secretary-treasurer Steve Dayan said the negotiations were difficult but led to significant improvements in the deal, which expires on Sept. 30, 2021. Details have not yet been released.
“We are very proud of each and every one of our Casting Steering Committee Members from both Teamsters Local 399 and Teamsters Local 817,...
Contract Ratification
Casting directors and casting associates have ratified a three-year successor agreement to its master contract with studios and networks, covering about 400 professionals in Los Angeles and 100 in New York.
Reps for Teamsters Local 399 in Hollywood and Local 817 in New York reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers after four days of talks last month. Ratification meetings were held Thursday.
Local 399 secretary-treasurer Steve Dayan said the negotiations were difficult but led to significant improvements in the deal, which expires on Sept. 30, 2021. Details have not yet been released.
“We are very proud of each and every one of our Casting Steering Committee Members from both Teamsters Local 399 and Teamsters Local 817,...
- 1/11/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Comedy Central has announced the lineups for its January Stand-Up Month, including four new one-hour specials, and talent for a new digital series of half-hour specials under two different banners.
The January Stand-Up Month will feature new specials from Ron Funches, James Davis (Hood Adjacent with James Davis), Chris Distefano and Roy Wood Jr.. The specials will air consecutive Fridays throughout the month at 11 Pm Et/Pt.
In addition, Comedy Central’s digital series Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring will premiere January 8 on YouTube, Facebook Watch, Twitter and Instagram. The series will spotlight a new up-and-coming comedian on Tuesday and Thursday each week.
In the spirit of Adam Devine’s House Party and Live at Gotham, the series will feature short sets from some young voices. The...
The January Stand-Up Month will feature new specials from Ron Funches, James Davis (Hood Adjacent with James Davis), Chris Distefano and Roy Wood Jr.. The specials will air consecutive Fridays throughout the month at 11 Pm Et/Pt.
In addition, Comedy Central’s digital series Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring will premiere January 8 on YouTube, Facebook Watch, Twitter and Instagram. The series will spotlight a new up-and-coming comedian on Tuesday and Thursday each week.
In the spirit of Adam Devine’s House Party and Live at Gotham, the series will feature short sets from some young voices. The...
- 12/3/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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