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Disney’s Pixar revealed Saturday at the D23 Expo that the animation studio’s new film Soul will be toplined by Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey. The pic is set to be the second original Pixar film for 2020 after March’s Onward, and it has a June 19, 2020 release date. Directed by two-time Oscar winner Pete Docter, who was…

Three of NBC’s iconic comedy veterans are teaming on a new series. The network has given a straight-to-series order to a comedy starring The Good Place‘s Ted Danson, from Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, 3 Arts Entertainment and Universal Television. Written by Fey and Carlock (30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), the as-yet…

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is getting on the hot interactive storytelling trend. Tina Fey and Robert Carlock’s acclaimed comedy series, which ended its four-season run on Netflix in January, will return to the streaming platform for an untitled interactive special. The special, which will break ground for a comedy…

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features is giving the film treatment to New York Times bestseller Carrie and Me, the memoir from multi-hyphenate Hollywood icon Carol Burnett written as a tribute to her late daughter Carrie Hamilton. Brothers Ian and Eshom Nelms have been brought on to adapt the screenplay. Burnett is producing the…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired Hometown, a feature comedy that will star Insecure‘s Natasha Rothwell, who is writing the script with Paula Pell and Michelle Lawler. Little Stranger's Tina Fey and Eric Gurian will produce alongside Pell and Rothwell. Jeff Richmond is exec producer. They are keeping the plot under…

In Monday’s Tonight Show homage to The Larry Sanders Show, Jimmy Fallon is celebrating his fifth anniversary as host and runs into a a panda-suited Ben Stiller backstage, who is unhappy that his surprise is ruined and takes it out on Fallon. After which, Fallon checks in on Tina Fey ahead of the taping; she’s unhappy…

Since the Kevin Hart debacle, when it became clear that the Oscars will have no host this year, ABC and The Academy zeroed in on securing a big-name musical act and A-list comedians to open the ceremony. They got them with Queen, which was ABC’s top choice to kick off the night, and the dream comedy team of Tina Fey, A…

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon will take viewers behind the scenes Monday night,  February 25, in a special episode inspired by the The Larry Sanders Show. Tina Fey will be among Fallon’s guests that night; she’s there to promote her new comedy Wine Country. But, for reasons not known to Fallon, she’s very mad…

Oscar producer Donna Gigliotti and co-producer/director Glenn Weiss have revealed the first group of presenters for the 91st Academy Awards. Set to hand out hardware in three weeks are Awkwafina, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Tina Fey, Whoopi Goldberg, Brie Larson, Jennifer Lopez, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Amandla…

Busy Tonight star Busy Philipps says her E! late-night show is a work in progress. “It’s a marathon building a four night a week talk show,” she told TV critics at Winter TCA 2019. “I know personally, from being an actor who worked on a lot of scripted television shows, the pilot of Cougar Town was not indicative of…

After four seasons, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is almost over. With the final six episodes hitting Netflix on Jan 25, Kimmy fans will wave goodbye to possibly the most carefree and optimistic onscreen abduction survivor the world has ever seen. Blazing a trail as Netflix's first comedy, Tina Fey and Robert Carlock's…

The Casting Society of America has set the honorees and special award recipients for its 34th annual Artios Awards. Laura Dern, Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond will be feted along with Robert J. Ulrich, Eric Dawson and Carol Kritzer of Ulrich/Dawson/Kritzer Casting on January 31 in dual ceremonies at the Beverly Hilton in…