Comedian Jim Gaffigan is developing a new pilot for CBS based loosely on his life, Deadline reports.
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Four years after trying to revive Murphy Brown as a platform to chime in on the heated 2008 Clinton/Obama/McCain presidential campaign, the sitcom's creator, Diane English, is again talking to CBS and Warner Bros. about a series of political-commentary specials with Candice Bergen back in character as the tough-talking TV journalist.
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Timing is everything. Which may help explain why, after a nearly three-year delay, BBC America is finally importing the third season (from 2009) of the blistering political satire The Thick of It to its "Ministry of Laughs" weekend franchise (Saturday, midnight/11c) — on the heels of HBO's launch of Veep, which springs from the same demented imagination of dark farceur Armando Iannucci.
Thick set the tone of deeply cynical, bitterly vicious, and scaldingly profane high-office shenanigans that Veep is adapting with some success.
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Lily Tomlin will star in Reba McEntire's ABC comedy pilot Malibu Country.
The Complete Pilot Report: ABC's got Mandy Moore, Reba McEntire and Natalie Portman
From Reba's Kevin Abbott, the project will star McEntire as a broke divorcee who moves her family to Malibu where she attempts ...
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Kevin Pollak will guest-star on an upcoming episode of Law & Order: SVU.
TVGuide.com has learned that Pollak, 54, will play a judge who finds himself on the wrong side of the law. Lost and Damages alum Fisher Stevens and Murphy Brown's ...
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