Deadline reports that TBS has now suspended production on The Cops, its upcoming animated comedy produced by and starring Albert Brooks and Louis CK. News of the suspension comes shortly after FX—which served as a producer on the show—announced that it was cutting all ties with CK, in the wake of sexual harassment…
Amazon launched a slate of new TV projects tonight, apparently prompted by the ire of CEO Jeff Bezos, who’s reportedly sick of his company’s persistent status as “that place you go to watch Transparent.” According to a new piece from Variety, Bezos is on the war path at the moment, demanding Amazon Studios find him a …
Last week, NBC bravely admitted that it would happily bring back every hit show it has ever had, even though the creators of those shows aren’t particularly interested, but it’s not the only network longing for a simpler time when ratings were higher and beloved shows could run for years and years. Speaking to the…
TBS has acquired a new animated series—tentatively titled The Cops—from three of the biggest names in comedy: Louis CK, Greg Daniels, and Albert Brooks. The series—developed through CK’s production deal with FX—would feature him and Brooks as police officers, dead-panning their way through their efforts to protect and…
In the second episode of Stan Against Evil—IFC’s new horror-comedy starring John C. McGinley as the former sheriff of a cursed New England town—the titular character plops down in his Barcalounger to tell modern-day TV to get off his lawn. Dismissing an Ice Road Truckers knockoff, Stan scoffs, “That’s not a show. I…
Back in May, we reported on a number of new shows that TBS was picking up as part of its new commitment to being both “awesomely in-your-face” and “effortlessly diverse.” One of those shows was The Group, a new comedy from Greg Daniels of The Office, Parks And Rec, and King Of The Hill, centering on a series of alien…
In entertainment, an awful lot of stuff happens behind closed doors, from canceling TV shows to organizing music festival lineups. While the public sees the end product on TVs, movie screens, paper, or radio dials, they don’t see what it took to get there. In Expert Witness, The A.V. Club talks to industry insiders…
With so many new series popping up on streaming services and DVD, it gets harder and harder to keep up with recent shows, much less the all-time classics. With TV Club 10, we point you toward the 10 episodes that best represent a TV series or genre, classic or modern. They might not be the 10 best episodes, but…