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13 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »

Ilana Glazer, Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello blazed through a Q&A on Saturday following the premiere of their subversive time-travel limited series “Time Traveling Bong.” The conversation was held at the SVA Theater in Manhattan as part of the Tribeca Film Festival.

In the three-part series, directed by Aniello, Glazer and Downs play cousins who whirl through history after discovering the titular time traveling bong. “Bong” premieres on April 20 (of course) and will air over three consecutive nights.

Glazer, co-star and exec producer of Comedy Central’s “Broad City,” joked that the team is inspired by a certain recent FX hit. “Have you guys been watching O.J.?” Glazer asked, referring to “The People v. O.J. Simpson.” “We think of this as Comedy Central’s O.J.”

The discussion revealed that Comedy Central shot down a storyline involving a young Bill and Hillary Clinton. »

- Seth Kelley

15 April 2016 4:42 PM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »

HBO’s “Confirmation,” which debuts on Saturday, is reigniting debate from some of the real-life principals who were involved in a sensational chapter in the Senate’s history 25 years ago: the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings.

The movie starring Kerry Washington depicts the 1991 confirmation battle as Thomas’ Supreme Court nomination was put in doubt after law professor Anita Hill, a former co-worker, gave testimony that accused him of sexual harassment. Thomas delivered a vehement rebuttal, famously calling the spectacle a “high tech lynching,” while the hearings captivated television audiences.

One of the most outspoken figures about HBO’s project has been Mark Paoletta, a Washington attorney who served in the White House counsel’s office at the time. He created a website called Confirmationbiased.com, which launched on Thursday and characterizes the movie as  an “unfair distortion of the truth” that features “imaginary scenes, fictional characters and a biased agenda »

- Ted Johnson and Katie Van Syckle

15 April 2016 4:49 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »

Callum Keith Rennie (Into the Forest) has booked a series regular role on the second season of Amazon's original drama series The Man in the High Castle. Based on Philip K. Dick's alt-history novel, the series depicts a divided and drab 1962 America in which the Nazis rule the East and Midwest and Imperial Japan reigns over the Western states, with a neutral zone between them. Rennie will play Gary Connell, leader of the West Coast Resistance movement. A former convict… »

15 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

Louis C.K. announced the self-cancellation of his money-losing web series “Horace and Pete” on Saturday. The comedian last week released the 10th (and now final) episode of the dramedy in which he starred with Steve Buscemi as the co-owners of a downmarket Brooklyn bar, but sent a follow-up email to his fans on Saturday stating that the show would not be returning. The move is not a surprise given the shaky finances for the project. On Monday, C.K. told Howard Stern that he’s “millions of dollars in debt right now” because he self-financed the series and distributed it on his own. »

- Thom Geier

11 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

The penultimate episode of “Girls” Season 5 was directed by longtime cast member Alex Karpovsky, and despite five feature films under his belt, this was his first foray into directing for TV. “Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner came over to me one day when we were shooting a scene upstate,” he told TheWrap of how the gig came about. “They asked me if directing an episode was something that appealed to me, and I said, ‘Yeah, it’s something that could be a lot of fun,’ and they went, ‘Great,’ and a few weeks later came back and assigned a specific. »

- Linda Ge

17 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

Forget winter… Beyonce is coming to HBO. The beloved singer posted a video on Instagram on Saturday with the mysterious caption of “#Lemonade 4.23 9Pm Et | HBO,” going even further on YouTube by teasing a “world premiere event” on April 23. The singer is embarking on a world tour starting April 27 in Miami, and recently debuted the music video for her song “Formation” in February, just days before she took the stage at halftime of the Super Bowl. Also Read: Beyonce Fans Go Crazy Waiting for Her New Album While Beyonce hasn’t announced any plans for her next album, it’s possible that. »

- Jeff Sneider

16 April 2016 12:58 AM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »

Although he cut his teeth as a successful playwright and theatre director, 46-year-old David Farr is forging an equally interesting career in film and television. After his teenage assassin story “Hanna” was turned into an action-packed fairytale by Joe Wright in 2011, Farr went behind the camera for last year’s word-of-mouth festival hit “The Ones Below,” a Hitchcockian thriller in which the lives of a young mother-to-be and her partner are turned upside down after a mysterious couple move into the apartment downstairs.

Almost immediately, Farr’s profile was raised by the airing of the BBC/AMC series “The Night Manager,” directed by Danish Oscar winner Susanne Bier and starring Tom Hiddleston in the title role. Based on the 1993 novel by John Le Carré, whose espionage stories have successfully been adapted in such award-winning productions as “The Constant Gardener” (2005) and “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” (2011), “The Night Manager” debuted in the U. »

- Damon Wise

5 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »

Worlds collided to great comedic effect during the opening sketches of Julia Louis-Dreyfus‘ latest Saturday Night Live hosting gig.

RelatedSNL: Oscar Winner Brie Larson to Host

The Veep funnywoman’s co-star, Tony Hale, popped up during the best part of her opening monologue — channeling fawning “bag man” Gary as her cue-card handler. Before that, she also had a chance to reunite with Seinfeld co-creator Larry David, who played Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Debate Cold Open, while Louis-Dreyfus, in a deliciously meta turn, revived her classic ’90s sitcom character (and New York primary voter) Elaine Benes. »

7 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »

Make Room for Saturday Night Live‘s next host, Brie Larson.

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The recently minted Academy Award winner (and onetime Community coat check girl) will make her debut lording over Studio 8H on May 7, it was announced during this weekend’s show.

Alicia Keys will perform that night, in her third turn as an SNL musical guest.

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Saturday Night Live will air its Season 41 finale on May 21.

Related storiesJulia Louis-Dreyfus Hosts SNL: What Were the Best and Worst Sketches? »

8 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »

Hollywood heavyweights had some private time with Hillary Clinton today at Jeffrey Katzenberg and wife Marilyn’s home, before a multimillion dollar fundraiser at George Clooney’s L.A. pad. A major fundraiser for the former Secret of State, the DreamWorks Animation boss invited along George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, Avatar director James Cameron – another big Clinton donor – as well as L.A. olympics bid chief Casey Wasserman, an insider tells Deadline. A co-host… »

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Marvel’s Daredevil season 2 showrunners Douglas Petrie and Marco Ramirez will be staying in the Marvel universe, as the duo have signed on in the same roles for the upcoming superhero crossover series Marvel's The Defenders. Joining them for the series is Drew Goddard, who developed Daredevil for Marvel and initially was to run the series’ first season before stepping back into a consultant role, will join the show as an Executive Producer. Bringing together the main… »

9 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »

Och. M. G.

That’s really the only acceptable response to this week’s Outlander, unless your vocabulary and/or heritage means you’ve got a long stream of Gaelic curses handy for the yelling. Because good God, guys: Black Jack Randall is alive.

I don’t say that with surprise; like many of you, I’m familiar with the books and knew this moment was coming even before the first time Randall leered at Claire in the woods. Still, though, the mere idea that Randall lives — and that Jamie may eventually learn of his existence, too — is a juicy »

10 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »

Author Neil Gaiman, whose American Gods novel is being developed as a Starz series by Bryan Fuller, has agreed to adapt for TV his first novel, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.

RelatedAmerican Gods Adds Crispin Glover, Jonathan Tucker

Per The Guardian, Gaimain announced that although he had previously said he would not adapt the 26-year-old apocalyptic dark comedy without co-author Sir Terry Pratchett, who died a year ago after a battle with Alzheimer’s, a posthumous letter from Pratchett urged him to forge on with the project, as a six-episode series.

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10 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »

It’s last call for Horace and Pete.

Louis C.K. formally announced to his email distro list on Saturday that his self-financed, 10-episode web series won’t be ordering a double.

“So. That was it,” the multi-hyphenate entertainer wrote. “I didn’t want to say [before] that it was the last episode. Because I didn’t want you to know, as you watched the episode, that it would be the last one. But yeah, obviously, that was it.”

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Horace and Pete starred C.K. »

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