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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 [...]

Frank Caliendo If the position of 'Rich Little for a New Generation' is open, Caliendo has to be a serious candidate. Close your eyes during his act and you'll think [...]

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 [...]

Sitting on a shelf somewhere deep inside ABC's Burbank headquarters are never-before-seen episodes of Heather Graham's short-lived sitcom 'Emily's Reason's Why Not.' They're going to be sitting there for a [...]

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 [...]

Byline: JULIA WERDIGIER The troupe, which plans to perform a show on July 1 in London, will perform new material as well as favorites. To view this article at nytimes.com, [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Ta-Nehisi Coates Alyssa is a little fed up (http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2011/12/06/382571/dear-pop-culture-enough-with-the-faux-gays/) with the CW: The CW, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that its next comedy will be about a young [...]

Byline: Joanne Lipman; Lipman is a media adviser and NEWSWEEK's C-Suite Columnist. Spotlight is on Les Moonves as a revamped 'Two and a Half Men' premieres. CBS Corp. Chief executive [...]

Byline: Kera Bolonik Parks and Recreation When NBC's Parks and Recreation debuted on April 9, 2009, expectations were high. The show had great bones: Creators Greg Daniels and Michael Schur [...]

Byline: Jason Gay 'There certainly is an awful lot to mine there,' Norman Lear says on the telephone from Los Angeles. At 86, the legendary television producer is still cooking [...]

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 [...]

By Michael Malone Ex-TV newsman finds comedy in newsroom Perhaps the oldest writers' axiom is, 'write what you know.' And Steven Levitan is a living example that old axioms still [...]

Byline: Sarah Benzuly To quote Fred Willard's character in A Mighty Wind, 'Wha' happened?' Linkin Park's breakout album, Hybrid Theory, and the incredible followup, Meteora, spotlighted lead vocalist Chester Bennington's [...]

By R. Thomas Umstead Five Pilots OK'd; Three Projects Get Presentation Deals Sketch comedies and animation are front and center in Comedy Central's new development slate unveiled last week. The [...]

The Geico Cavemen The recent news that ABC was willing to entertain the possibility of a sitcom starring the Geico cavemen seemed a sort of watershed. Here were characters dreamed [...]

Byline: James Hibberd Coming off two weeks of surging ratings, The CW Entertainment President Dawn Ostroff is plotting ways to build on newfound momentum. The network has a development deal [...]

NEW YORK -- NBC today said it plans to develop at least 10 original series this year for its new comedy-focused Web site. DotComedy, which launched in beta form a [...]

Turner Broadcasting announces its plans to launch a new broadband network featuring original comedy material from established and new performers The New York Daily News and the New York Post [...]

By R. Thomas Umstead Nontraditional Deal Puts 'Medea' Creator Into Channel's Fold TBS and production company Debmar-Mercury have broken the traditional sitcom-distribution chain, reaching an unprecedented deal to carry the [...]