Nick Kroll
Comedy Central has picked up two sketch comedy series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Nick Kroll (Childrens Hospital, Cavemen) will headline his own show, eponymously titled The Nick Show Kroll. MADtv's Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele have also signed on for an as-yet-untitled sketch series...
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Paul Scheer, Stephen Rannazzisi, Nick Kroll and Mark Duplass
Until FX renewed The League Monday, die-hard fans were panicked they had seen the last of Kevin's meltdowns and Ruxin's schemes. Creators and executive producers Jackie and Jeff Schaffer said they never doubted the comedy's future.
"I honestly never questioned it," Jackie tells TVGuide.com. "I think we have the funniest cast on TV hands down. We weren't done with them, the network wasn't done with them yet and God knows the fans weren't done with them...
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The League
FX has renewed The League for a 13-episode third season, the network announced Monday.
You don't have to know football to love The League
The League, starring Nick Kroll, Paul Scheer and Mark Duplass, centers on a group of fantasy football players and their everyday lives.
"We're thrilled to be doing a third season with our amazing cast and the most audacious network around," executive producers Jackie and Jeff Schaffer said. "FX truly is like the parents we wish we had growing up...
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The League
If you haven't been catching The League, FX's screamingly funny fantasy-football comedy, you might want to get your head in the game. In its second season, the sitcom has scored major laughs by ...
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The League
The stars of The League are willing to do anything for their show. And when we say anything, that includes barraging NFL players twice their size.
"There was one scene where I had to insult [Baltimore Ravens linebacker] Terrell Suggs, and everyone was like, 'We don't want to tell him that you're going to insult him — just go up and insult him,'" star Paul Scheer tells TVGuide.com. "Here's a guy who runs people over on the field and I had to ...
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Nick Kroll, Jon Benjamin
From The Odd Couple to Dr. Ruth, Comedy Central is taking a look back as it moves forward with a wide-ranging slate of new programming.
Stand-up comics Bill Burr and Kevin Hart hope to put a modern spin on The Odd Couple with a...
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Scott Porter, Nora Zehetner
Fresh off his recently wrapped run on NBC/DirecTV's just-renewed Friday Night Lights, Scott Porter has joined the cast of Masterwork, a Fox drama pilot about an FBI agent (Aussie actor Matt Passmore) who tracks down stolen antiquities. (Think Indiana Jones with a badge.)
Porter will play ...
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The latest crop of pilot castings:• ABC has tapped Nick Kroll, Bill English and Kaitlin Doubleday to star as Nick, Joel and Kate in its comedy pilot inspired by the GEICO cavemen ads, says Variety. The best I can come up with is English plays "Johnson" in the Raisin Bran Crunch ads and appears in T-Mobile's "Secret Lovers" spot, while Doubleday's biggest role seems to be Waiting.• TVGuide.com has learned that Sarah Joy Brown (Cold Case) has joined the cast of Company Man, Fox's Jason Behr-fronted spy drama boasting gobs and gobs of 24 cred. Brown plays the hard-ass manager of a top-secret project.• Veteran actor Tom Conti will star in an untitled Fox comedy about a 10-year-old boy guided through life by his slightly loony grandfather, Reuters reports. Conti isn't playing the boy.
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