Michaela Watkins has long been stealing scenes on television. She was the best wife on Trophy Wife, no small feat when your competition is Malin Akerman and Marcia Gay Harden. She managed to stand out among a powerhouse ensemble on Wet Hot American Summer and stole scenes from actors like Jeffrey Tambor and Bradley Whitford in the best episode of Transparent.
Now, having saved The Mindy Project from cancellation, the service is starting to prove its worth. And perhaps no show better sums up the value of having Hulu as a viable original programming platform than Difficult People.
It’s official! On Friday, Hulu announced it has nabbed The Mindy Project from Fox’s scrap heap and ordered a 26-episode fourth season of the Mindy Kaling-led sitcom. The deal between the streaming network and Universal Television, which produces the series, was inked less than two weeks after the show was cancelled. “”I am thrilled The …
Back in September we reported on a Stephen King novel, 11/22/63, concerning the Kennedy Assassination, being turned into a Hulu miniseries as produced by J.J. Abrams. The story is about a man named Jake Epping who stumbles on a time travel portal back to several months before John F. Kennedy was killed and his goal …
I have a medical condition called caring too much about TV. Amy Poehler’s sitcom Difficult People just got a straight-to-series order from Hulu. Originally USA produced the pilot, but then the network decided to move away from developing comedies. USA’s loss is Hulu‘s gain. The comedy stars Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner, who have worked …
Hulu is ordering an adaptation of Stephen King’s ’11/22/63′ from J.J. Abrams and Warner Bros. Television direct to series, as Variety reports. The time-travel thriller about the Kennedy assassination will be told over the course of a nine-hour mini-series with a script from executive producer Bridget Carpenter (Friday Night Lights, The Red Road). King’s best-selling …
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