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Joe Otterson TV ReporterNick Offerman will star alongside Lily James, Sebastian Stan, and Seth Rogen in the Hulu limited series about the theft and release of Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee’s sex tape, Variety has learned.The eight-episode series is currently titled “Pam and Tommy.” Stan will play Lee while James will play Anderson. Offerman will star as Uncle Miltie.

Barring a last-minute deluge of contenders premiering in time, the race for a 2021 Comedy Series nomination is wide, wide open. Granted, “Ted Lasso” is the easy frontrunner to win it all, but out of the expected eight nomination slots there are only six likely nominees and even that might be a stretch.

EXCLUSIVE: Jim Reynolds, creator, executive producer and showrunner of The Neighborhood, is leaving the popular CBS comedy series after three seasons. CBS Studios, which is behind the multi-camera sitcom starring Cedric the Entertainer and Max Greenfiend, will name a new showrunner for Season 4, which was picked up by CBS in February.

HBO Max has given a ten-episode order to half-hour comedy pilot Minx. The new series, headlined by Ophelia Lovibond and Jake Johnson, hails from Ellen Rapoport, Paul Feig’s Feigco Entertainment and Lionsgate Television.

Jason Sudeikis started the 27th annual SAG Awards with a bang.

It looks as though Irish actress Nadia Forde has been kept rather busy during lockdown as she has announced a new project.

Created by Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist creator Austin Winsberg, Eduardo Cisneros and Jason Shuman, Acapulco is a half-hour Spanish and English language comedy that centers on a young Mexican man named Maximo (Arrizon) whose dream comes true when he gets the job of a lifetime at the hottest resort in Acapulco. But he soon realizes the gig is far more complicated than he ever imagined as all of his beliefs and morals start to be questioned.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s multi-camera comedy series from Jack Dolgen, Doug Mand and Kourtney Kang has rounded out its lead cast with the addition of Olivia Macklin (Filthy Rich, LA to Vegas), Michael Hsu Rosen (Tiny Pretty Things, Monsterland) and Cinthya Carmona (The Tax Collector, Deputy). They will star opposite Emily Osment and Gregg Sulkin in the project, created and written by Dolgen and Mand and directed by Pamela Fryman.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is in the early stages of creating a show with Katherine Ryan, the multi-hyphenated Canadian comedian behind Netflix’s scripted series The Duchess.

Brothers Brian and Domhnall Gleeson are bringing the laughs to Amazon Prime Video with the new comedy series “Frank Of Ireland”.

If you’re a film fan and know your Irish actors, you’re probably very familiar with the last name Gleeson. There’s Brendan Gleeson, a damn fine veteran actor.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefLeading South Korean TV production studio Monster Union has commissioned a local adaptation of British comedy series “Uncle.” The Korean series will be the first localization of the scripted format, which is represented by BBC Studios.The darkly comic series follows the misadventures of a dissolute, out-of-work musician who forges an unlikely alliance with his 12-year-old nephew after being morally blackmailed into looking after him by his chaotic sister, on the

A Black Lady Sketch Show, Robin Thede’s sketch comedy series, will return to HBO for season 2.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHulu has ordered the animated comedy “Koala Man” to series.The series hails creator and executive producer Michael Cusack, with Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez onboard as executive producers and showrunners. “Rick and Morty” and “Solar Opposites” co-creator Justin Roiland will also executive produce along with Princess Pictures and Bento Box.

“Harry and Meghan expected to face backlash, but nothing like this,” dishes a source.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple has ordered a half-hour comedy series starring Maya Rudolph that hails from Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard.The series is about Molly (Rudolph), a woman whose seemingly perfect life is upended after her husband leaves her with nothing but 87 billion dollars.Yang and Hubbard created the series and will serve as executive producers. Rudolph will executive produce in addition to starring under her Animal Picture banner.

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has given a straight-to-series order to a half-hour comedy series starring Emmy Award-winner Maya Rudolph and created by Emmy winners Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard.

EXCLUSIVE: Venerable sitcom director James Burrows has been tapped to direct and executive produce the pilot episode of ABC’s straight-to-series multi-camera comedy starring Alec Baldwin, Kelsey Grammer and Alec Mapa, from Modern Family co-creator/executive producer Chris Lloyd, executive producer Vali Chandrasekaran and studio 20th Television.