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Peacock's Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reboot has cast Jabari Banks (Kohner Agency, Frontline) as the character Will Smith portrayed in the 1990s [...]

Mindy Kaling (CAA, 3 Arts, Ziffren Brittenham) and Lakers president Jeanie Buss will produce a Lakers-inspired workplace comedy for Netflix. Caption: Mindy Kaling Please Note: Illustration(s) are not available due [...]

Robin Thede (WME, Ziffren Brittenham) and London Hughes (UTA, the U.K.'s Curtis Brown, Haven, Ziffren Brittenham) will star in a reboot of '80s comedy Perfect Strangers for HBO [...]

Meg DeLoatch (Gersh, Morris Yorn) will serve as showrunner for the fourth season of CBS comedy The [...]

Almost Christmas director David E. Talbert (UTA, Brillstein, Ziffren Brittenham) is developing the multicam comedy Better Late for ABC, with LeBron James and Maverick Carter's SpringHill Co. [...]

HBO Max has ordered to series half-hour comedy Gordita Chronicles, starring Olivia [...]

REPS WME, AGI, Morris Yorn WHY SHE MATTERS The comedian, who has gone viral on TikTok for her Donald Trump impersonations, has landed a Netflix comedy special, directed by Natasha [...]

Tina Fey (WME, 3 Arts, Ziffren Brittenham) and Robert Carlock (WME, Hansen Jacobson) are developing Netflix animated comedy [...]

The Big Bang Theory co-creator Bill Prady (RBEL, Lichter Grossman) is reuniting with NASA veteran Mike Massimino for an untitled NBC astronaut [...]

Johnny Galecki (WME, Management 360, Hansen Jacobson) will exec produce National Lampoon's Vacation spinoff series The Griswolds at HBO Max. Please Note: Illustration(s) are not available due to copyright [...]

Starved for new comedy hits, the broadcast networks are feasting on half-hour pilot orders for the 2005-06 season. 'This year, there is a dramatic rise in the number of comedy [...]

Hailee Steinfeld (CAA, Hirsch Wallerstein) will star as Emily Dickinson in Apple's straight-to-series comedy [...]

Netflix has landed Josh Gad's comedy Super-Normal, which also will star Daisy Ridley and Luke Evans, and ordered Mark Burnett and Roma Downey's modern-day drama Messiah to [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Bryan Greenberg and Victor Rasuk have been cast as the two leads in HBO's single-camera comedy pilot 'How to Make It in America.' The project, from Stephen [...]

Extras, the comedy series written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, has been recommissioned for a second series by the controller of BBC2, Roly Keating. In an unprecedented move, the [...]

ABC has given a put pilot commitment to producer Tony Jonas. Among the projects in contention for the commitment is a comedy from writer-producer Yvette Lee Bowser. The untitled Bowser [...]

Stand-up comedian Kevin Hart ('Paper Soldiers') has inked a talent holding deal with NBC. Under the terms of the deal, the network will cast Hart in an existing project or [...]

It looka like a primetime comedy series for Fox's 'Mad TV' star Alex Borstein. The writer-comedian, best known for playing the obnoxious manicurist Ms. Swan on the late-night sketch show [...]

LOS ANGELES -- While nearly every TV network is chasing younger viewers, Spike TV is about to issue a surprising declaration: 'We want to go a little older.' The network [...]

LOS ANGELES -- With the economy in the tank, Spike TV is developing several comedy projects that find pathos and humor in underachievement. The network has five half-hours in the [...]

LOS ANGELES -- In his first regular TV series role, Jon Voight has signed on as a lead in Fox's drama pilot 'Midland.' David Keith also landed a co-starring role [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Twitter sensation 'Shit My Dad Says' is becoming a TV pilot, with William Shatner set to play the larger-than-life dad at the center. Meanwhile, Fox is close [...]

LOS ANGELES -- world of Hollywood blogging is getting the HBO treatment. The pay cable network is developing a half-hour comedy series with Oscar-winning writer-director Bill Condon and 'Tell Me [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Martin Lawrence is returning to TV as one of the producers of an African-American comedy that's been sold to cable network TV One. The project is the [...]

LOS ANGELES -- FX has ordered a second season of its comedy series 'The League,' picking up 13 more episodes. Season 2 will debut next year in late summer, and [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Scott Cohen and Stephanie Childers have been tapped to star in ABC Family's untitled Michael Jacobs comedy pilot. Meanwhile, Troian Bellisario and Ian Harding have joined Lucy [...]

LOS ANGELES -- In summer 2008, four college friends pooled $6,000 to shoot a 15-minute presentation for a Web series. A year later, the demo attracted Thomas Schlamme as executive [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Two months after he broke the news of his Comedy Central show 'Reno 911!' coming to an end, series star/cocreator Thomas Lennon is headlining a new comedy [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Matthew Perry is returning to broadcast television with a single-camera comedy. The 'Friends' alum is set to star in, co-write and executive produce an untitled project produced [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Two comedies, Matt Tarses' 'True Love' and Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith's '18 Years,' have landed pilot production commitments at CBS and ABC, respectively. Both projects are [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Josh Schwartz is getting into the comedy game. The co-creator of 'Gossip Girl' is teaming with fellow 'Chuck' executive producer Matt Miller to write a multicamera script [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Fox has teamed with 'My Name Is Earl' executive producer Bobby Bowman for a family comedy project. The untitled show, which has received a premium script commitment, [...]

LOS ANGELES -- It's an 'Arrested Development' reunion at Fox. The Emmy-winning series' creator/executive producer Mitch Hurwitz, co-star Will Arnett and co-executive producer Jim Vallely have teamed for another single-camera [...]

Several top film names are taking a leap into television courtesy of hungry startup Ish Entertainment. Hot scribes Edward Cannistraci and Frederick Seton, the writers behind Fox's Jim Carrey feature [...]

Martin Lawrence is having a busy TV development season, with his production company Runteldat fielding a couple of comedy projects. At Fox, Lawrence is behind an animated comedy, being penned [...]

LOS ANGELES -- IFC is going for laughs with its 2009-10 slate, which includes projects starring 'Saturday Night Live' alum Chris Kattan and punk food princess Thu Tran. 'We're making [...]

LOS ANGELES -- 'Will & Grace' star Eric McCormack is returning to multicamera comedy with a starring role on the untitled Tad Quill half-hour pilot. Reno Wilson, Jolie Jenkins and [...]

LOS ANGELES -- MTV's next target: scripted comedy. The cable network is developing an unprecedented number of scripted half-hour projects, including greenlighting two new series and ordering at least four [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Jason Clarke is set to lead the ensemble of CBS' U.S. Attorney drama pilot. Additionally, Jonathan Sadowski, Kevin Simpson, Noureen Dewulf and Picky Mabe have landed leads [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Ed O'Neill is returning to comedy series. The 'Married With Children' alum has been tapped to star in ABC's half-hour pilot 'An American Family,' which also has [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Foxis rebooting comedy. The network, whose sole live-action comedy ''Til Death' recently was renewed for another season, is aggressively developing filmed half-hours and plans to greenlight five [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Joan Cusack has lined up two TV projects, developing a comedy at NBC set in the world of psychiatry and starring opposite Mac Whitman in the Lifetime [...]

LOS ANGELES -- 'Meet the Parents' and 'Meet the Fockers' co-writer Jim Herzfeld is returning to his sitcom roots with 'Changing Positions,' a multi-camera comedy project at NBC that shares [...]

LOS ANGELES -- 'Arrested Development' creator Milch Hurwitz is returning to CBS with a new family comedy. 'American Pie' star Jason Biggs is in negotiations to star in the untitled [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Jason Schwartzman has been tapped as the lead in HBO's comedy pilot 'Bored to Death' lifting the contingency on the project. The Jonathan Ames-penned 'Bored' centers on [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Showtime has given a series pickup to 'The United States of Tara.' The pay cable channel has greenlighted 12 half-hour episodes of the comedy, a co-production of [...]

LOS ANGELES -- MTV has a slew of projects in the works for summer and fall, including a scripted comedy from Wilmer Valderrama. Also on the slate, which includes a [...]

LOS ANGELES--Kelsey Grammer is eyeing a quick return to primetime with a starring role on ABC's comedy pilot 'Roman's Empire.' Meanwhile, Steve Rosen, Brooke D'Orsay and Joy Osmanski are set [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Ron Perlman is set to star in FX's upcoming series 'Sons of Anarchy.' Elsewhere, Bean Bridges and Meagen Fay have joined ABC's untitled Kristin Newman comedy pilot, [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Judy Greer has been tapped as the lead in HBO's pilot 'Suburban Shootout' for director Barry Sonnenfeld. Based on the critically praised British series, 'Shootout' is a [...]