Chelsea Handler Heads To Peacock With 'Life Will Be The Death Of Me' Comedy Series Based on Her Memoir

Kristen Wiig is taking on a new role!

Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple has ordered the dark comedy series “Sunny” with Rashida Jones set to star, Variety has confirmed.The 10-episode series is based on the book “Dark Manual” by Colin O’Sullivan. In the half-hour show, Jones stars as Suzie, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As “consolation” she’s given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband’s electronics company.

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has handed a formal 10-episode series order to Sunny (fka Dark Manual), a half-hour darkly comedic drama starring and executive produced by Rashida Jones, from Katie Robbins (The Affair, The Last Tycoon) and A24. Lucy Tcherniak (Station Eleven, The End of the F***ing World) is attached to direct.

Kristen Wiig is set to star in a period comedy series about gorgeously impossible people in Palm Beach for Apple.

Selome Hailu Apple TV Plus has greenlit “Mrs. American Pie,” a new comedy series starring Kristen Wiig. Laura Dern executive produces and is eyeing a key role.Set in the early ‘70s, “Mrs.

EXCLUSIVE: The strange, true-life story of Elmer McCurdy, a turn-of-the-20th Century train robber whose corpse became a carnival attraction and unwitting stage prop well into the 1970s, will be adapted into a musical by the writers of Broadway’s acclaimed The Band’s Visit.

Chelsea Handler recently had to call off a number of stand-up comedy shows amid a health scare. The comedian revealed to fans that she was in the hospital, and would have to cancel her performances in Oregon over the weekend.Handler took to her Instagram story on Saturday to explain that she had suffered a «scare» and was forced to postpone Friday's show in Eugene and her Saturday shows in Portland, which were stops on her Vaccinated & Horny comedy tour.«I am so sorry I had to cancel my shows tonight in Portland and my show in Eugene,» Handler shared in a video filmed from her hospital bed.

Chelsea Handler has canceled some standup comedy shows in Oregon after an unexpected hospitalization.

Chelsea Handler has canceled some standup comedy shows in Oregon after an unexpected hospitalization.

Chelsea Handler is sharing an update with her fans.

sold her longtime Bel Air estate last year for $10.5M, she spent the majority of 2021 in an $18,000-per-month rental in the same neighborhood, The Post has learned. It was while living in this home when she rekindled her relationship with fellow comedian Jo Koy. The two have been linked romantically since last July. With 3,300 square feet of living space, the Zen-themed property features five bedrooms and four baths. The listing describes the residence as a “rustic modern architectural home” with a harmonious indoor-outdoor flow. Situated on more than half an acre of park-like grounds, the gated estate features a separate casita alongside the main house, as well as a courtyard. The interior boasts an open floor plan with high-pitched ceilings and wood-burning fireplaces throughout. Mature oak trees surround it on the outside.

Killing It,” streaming this April.Created by “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” producers Dan Goor and Luke Del Tredici, “Killing It” stars Craig Robinson (“The Office,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) as Craig, a man who competes in a state-sponsored python hunt in his quest to achieve the American Dream. The series co-stars Stephanie Nogueras as Craig’s ex-wife Camille, Jet Miller as his pre-teen daughter Vanessa and Rell Battle as his younger brother Isaiah. Claudia O’Doherty, Scott Macarthur and Wyatt Walter round out the cast.“We love all the ambitious, challenging, thematically-rich series that populate the current peak-TV landscape,” said Goor in a statement.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe “Tales of the Walking Dead” anthology series at AMC has added its first five cast members.Terry Crews (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”), Poppy Liu (“Hacks”), Parker Posey (“Lost in Space”), Anthony Edwards (“Inventing Anna”), and Jillian Bell (“Rough Night”) have all joined the episodic anthology, which will consist of six standalone stories featuring both new and established characters from “The Walking Dead” universe. Details on the characters the five will play are being kept under wraps.“We’ve worked hard to create unique, interesting and unexpected characters for both old and new TWD fans, and I’m thrilled that these are the actors who will bring them to life. I can’t wait for you to see the depth, drama, terror and, yes, humor they bring to the screen,” said series showrunner Channing Powell.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterPeacock has set seven cast members for the upcoming comedy thriller series “The Resort,” Variety has learned.Luis Gerardo Méndez, Nina Bloomgarden, and Gabriela Cartol will all appear in series regular roles, while Debby Ryan, Dylan Baker, Michael Hitchcock and Becky Ann Baker will recur. The show is described as a multi-generational, coming-of-age love story disguised as a fast-paced mystery about the disappointment of time. An anniversary trip puts a marriage to the test when the couple finds themselves embroiled in one of the Mayan Riviera’s most bizarre unsolved mysteries that took place fifteen years prior.Méndez (“Narcos: Mexico,” “Murder Mystery”) will play Baltasar Frías, the head of security at the Oceana Vista Resort in 2007.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAmazon Prime Video has ordered its next French series original, “Darknet-sur-Mer,” (“On the Darknet”) a crime comedy series produced by Noor Sadar’s White Lion Films, a Mediawan Group company. The six-episode series, directed by Remy Four and Julien War (“On The Other Side of the Tracks”), has just started filming in the Charente Maritime region of Southwest France.

Chelsea Handler, 46, and boyfriend Jo Koy, 50, are living proof that love takes time! It’s been more than 15 years since the inseparable comedian couple first met on Chelsea’s former talk show, Chelsea Lately. After denouncing marriage for years, Chelsea has recently said that she is open to the possibility of tying the knot and a source close to the funny lady told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY that the possibility may become a reality on her upcoming birthday, February 25. “Jo has mentioned that he has something very special planned for her birthday,” the source told us. “Whether or not it is a ring, he is being tight lipped about it all!”

EXCLUSIVE: Young actress Violet Young has been cast as a series regular opposite Amy Schumer in the Hulu series Life & Beth.

CBS has announced that three comedy series have been renewed for additional seasons!