New Online Comedy Channel from NBCUniversal

Posted on October 20, 2015 at 8:00 am

NBCUniversal is starting a new streaming comedy channel called Seeso for $3.99 a month. According to Variety, it will include

40 years of “SNL,” including day-after-air episodes; “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”; “Late Night with Seth Meyers”; “Parks and Recreation”; “30 Rock”; both the U.K. and U.S. versions of “The Office”; “The Kids in the Hall”; and “Saved by the Bell.”

Seeso expects to produce about 20 original series in the first year of operation, Shapiro said. Among the first: “The UCB Show” featuring Amy Poehler and other Upright Citizens Brigade troupe founders Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts and Matt Besser; an animated series from “Community” creator Dan Harmon, dubbed “HarmonQuest”; and a standup series from Wyatt Cenac (“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”).

Other Seeso originals on deck: reality show spoof “Bajillion Dollar Propertie$” from executive producers Scott Aukerman, Ben Garant, Tom Lennon and Kulap Vilaysack; workplace comedy “Thingstarter,” and dating game improv show “Dave & Ethan: Lovemakers,” both from Broadway Video’s Above Average Productions; standup series “Take My Wife” from creators and hosts Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher; travel show parody “Hidden America with Johan Ray”; comedy series “Live From The Barrel House” and “The Comedy Show Show” from Rooftop Comedy; “Sammy J & Randy in Ricketts Lane,” a musical comedy about two mismatched housemates, one a human and the other a puppet; and dark family comedy “Flowers,” starring Julian Barratt and Olivia Colman.

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The Art of More — Coming to Crackle November 19, 2015

Posted on October 10, 2015 at 8:00 am

An intense, one-hour drama set in the high-stakes world of New York auction houses, “The Art of More” stars Dennis Quaid, Cary Elwes, and Christian Cooke. The series follows Graham Connor (Cooke), a blue-collar young man who leverages his way into the exclusive realm of premium auction houses by exploiting connections to antiquities smuggling rings he was exposed to as a soldier in Iraq. Kate Bosworth plays Roxanna Whitney, daughter of the CEO of one of two warring auction houses.

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Mr. Peabody to Appear on Jeopardy!

Posted on October 8, 2015 at 4:35 pm

Everyone’s favorite educated canine appears tonight on Jeopardy to match his matchless historical knowledge against the contestants. He will be the first dog to host an entire category.

“The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show” premieres on October 9th, 2015 exclusively on Netflix. Set in their swanky penthouse apartment atop beautiful Templeton Tower, Mr. Peabody and Sherman take late night television to a hilarious new level in the first animated talk show for kids! Complete with a “live” studio audience, special guests, and plenty of lights, camera, action, music and laughs.

John Hanlon Interviews Beth Kushnick on Designing for “The Good Wife”

Posted on October 5, 2015 at 2:58 pm

“The Good Wife” has one of the best production design teams on television, so I was especially interested to read the interview my friend John Hanlon did with Beth Kushnick, set designer Beth Kushnick for The Credits. I loved the way she described the home and office environments as giving a backstory to the characters and the care she says viewers show in noticing the tiniest details. And her description of her favorite sets for the show:

got the big corner office. I like the concept that she’s not laden with paperwork and files. That her work gets done in a highly managed and she just doesn’t have that mess around her and it’s all kind of beautiful things. I love the colors of Alicia’s apartment. Her bedroom was a color that I had at my old house in my bedroom and so that’s one of my favorite rooms of her house. I actually really like Grace’s room. I like that kind of mirroring my experience with my daughter and looking for things for her.