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The “Kids in the Hall” cast — Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson — are unearthed from their burial plot and set loose on the world once again in the first trailer for the Prime Video revival of the beloved sketch comedy. The reboot will debut on May 13, the streamer announced on Wednesday at its Prime Video Presents Canada showcase event in Toronto.Things are crushed from a distance, tasteless jokes are made and Queen Elizabeth spoofed in the trailer, which sees the comedians skeptical of their new streaming network, Amazon.The upcoming season will feature eight episodes with all-new sketches and guest stars including Pete Davidson, Mark Hamill, Catherine O’Hara, Kenan Thompson, Will Forte, Paul Bellini, Brandon Ash-Mohammed, Catherine Reitman, Samantha Bee, Fred Armisen, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jay Baruchel, Eddie Izzard, Tracee Ellis Ross and Colin Mochrie.  The original Emmy-nominated sketch show premiered in 1989 and become a cult comedy hit.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFor at least one evening, worlds are colliding in late-night TV.Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel decided to switch up their hosting duties on April 1, with Kimmel traveling to New York to lead NBC’s “Tonight Show” and Fallon journeying to California to host ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” The studio audiences attending each broadcast were not informed of the move ahead of time, leaving them just as surprised as the TV viewers who tuned in Friday night. The Red Hot Chili Peppers served as musical guests for both programs.While such stunts are rare — each late-night program vies with the others for viewership and social-media activity — they are becoming less unique.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNetflix has ordered the animated comedy series “Bad Crimes” with Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus set to voice the lead roles, Variety has learned.The 10-episode series is described as a dark comedy procedural. It follows Kara (Byer) and Jennie (Lapkus), two FBI agents who travel across the country to solve grisly crimes while juggling their friendship, career ambitions, and as many men as possible.Nicole Silverberg (“Full Frontal with Samantha Bee”) created the series and also serve as executive producer.

Netflix has ordered an animated comedy series starring Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus.

Tony Hernandez & Lilly Burns, co-founders of Emily in Paris producer Jax Media, have been promoted at Imagine Entertainment.

If 2020 was the year of the late-night bathtub and garage specials, the last twelve months saw somewhat of a return to normal for the entertainers making linear viewers laugh on a nightly basis.

EXCLUSIVE: Hawaii Five-0 alumna Meaghan Rath and former Deception star Jack Cutmore-Scott are set to star in and executive produce Wouldn’t It Be Nice, a single-camera comedy series in development at CBS from CBS Studios.

With abortion rights seemingly on the line at the U.S. Supreme Court, Samantha Bee has found the perfect way to demonstrate the dilemma.

Joe Biden will make his first late night appearance as president when he guests on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Friday.

Samantha Bee is celebrating 200 episodes of her late-night political comedy series Full Frontal.

Samantha Bee took some time to talk about abortion rights on her TBS show Wednesday night, getting into detail about how some women might be forced to flee to another state to get an abortion if laws like the recent one passed in Texas are upheld in the courts. And, as part of that journey, Bee argued that Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is basically a disease.The late-night host noted that if Roe v.

TNT and TBS have set winter premiere dates for three of their top series.

EXCLUSIVE: Sophie von Haselberg (Halston), Colton Haynes (Arrow), Javier Muñoz (Broadway’s Hamilton), Jill Kargman (Odd Mom Out) and Marisa Ryan (Wet Hot American Summer) have signed on to star in Love…Reconsidered, an indie comedy, which is currently in production in New York.

Selome Hailu editorTBS announced that “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” has been renewed for a seventh season. The network also renewed its first look deal with Bee’s production company Swimsuit Competition, which aims to develop original content while discovering new talent.Bee’s late night talk show will move from its current Wednesday slot to Thursday nights in Jan.

EXCLUSIVE: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee will be back on TBS in 2022 after the network renewed the late-night series for a seventh season.

A majority of late-night hosts are to dedicate a night to tackling climate change.

Samantha Bee discusses the coronavirus pandemic, her dream guests, and more in a new interview with WSJ. Magazine.

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee’s Emmy campaign appears to have been pretty prescient.

Conan has crashed the late-night Emmy party after scoring a nomination in the Outstanding Variety Talk Series category following his exit from the medium after 28 years.

Whatever the future hold for Jason Kilar, the current WarnerMedia CEO wasn’t about to let what is surely his last Upfronts pass him by.

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. Her beauty and ? Not so much, which truthfully is a damn shame. When calls me from her home in Los Angeles, she is clearly prepared and ready to talk shop.

Samantha Bee is slamming Republican legislators in the U.S. after more than 30 states introduced transphobic sports-related bills that would ban transgender students from playing against cisgender athletes.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorA little over three years ago, the partners at Jax Media took a big gamble.The New York indie production banner had prospered through its artisanal approach to producing TV series for such multi-hyphenate stars as Samantha Bee, Amy Schumer, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, as well as its ability to execute high-gloss scripted series including “Younger” and “Search Party” on modest budgets.Jax’s commercial success and creative sensibilities attracted the attention

EXCLUSIVE: The mysterious world of billionaire girlbosses and tastemakers in Lauren Hankin’s A Special Place for Women is coming to television.

Like many who professionally straddle the line between comedy and journalism, Samantha Bee’s been quite distracted for the last five years. Even with weekly outlet Full Frontal, she and her team passed over story after story as the Trump presidency and then the pandemic hijacked their collective bandwidth.

Ethan Shanfeld “We need to get extremely brave,” said Jane Fonda, the legendary actor who has spent her 80s fighting for climate change reform.At the EMILY’s List fourth annual pre-Oscars event on Tuesday, “The First but Not the Last,” Fonda gathered virtually with Regina King, Lucy Liu, Samantha Bee and New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham on a panel moderated by Zerlina Maxwell.

Samantha Bee spent a lot of her career fighting to get to where she is now.

In the latest edition of “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee”, host Samantha Bee takes on the nutty QAnon conspiracy theory, discussing why it’s becoming driven by an unexpected demographic: suburban white women.

The Television Academy is reversing an earlier decision that would have combined the Variety Talk and Variety Sketch categories into a single all-encompassing category, that would see a show such as “Saturday Night Live” compete with the likes of “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” or “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee”.

Samantha Bee makes her first appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” Friday via video chat.