Netflix Is A Joke Comedy Festival Sets 2022 Dates After Covid Tanked Inaugural Event

Netflix has ordered a comedy series inspired by the Los Angeles Lakers front office, with the NBA team’s president, Jeanie Buss, on board as a producer.The untitled series — which is produced by Mindy Kaling, with Elaine Ko as showrunner — is loosely based on the inner workings of the popular franchise, which has been owned by the Buss family since 1979.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNetflix has given a straight-to-series order to a comedy set in the front office of the Los Angeles Lakers from writer Elaine Ko and executive producer Mindy Kaling, Variety has learned.The untitled, half-hour series is inspired by the personal and professional dynamic between the family owners and front office team that together run one of the most iconic franchises in all of sports.

In a competitive situation, Netflix has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to a half-hour workplace comedy inspired by the front office of the Los Angeles Lakers. The project hails from Mindy Kaling, former star/executive producer of one of the all-time great workplace comedy series, The Office; Modern Family alumna Elaine Ko; Lakers’ President and Governor Jeanie Buss and Warner Bros. TV.

After premiering at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival, the “How It Ends” trailer has arrived.

"Jackass 4" director Jeffrey Tremaine has been granted a restraining order against Bam Margera after telling a Los Angeles court he fears for his and his family's safety. Documents obtained by Fox News confirm Tremaine, 54, was granted on Tuesday a permanent restraining order against Margera, 41, for a period of three years.The order also protects Tremaine's wife and two kids aged 11 and nine.

Naya Rivera’s father discussed how the family is closing ranks to help care for his late daughter’s son, Josey, 5. The "Glee" actress died in an accidental drowning incident at Lake Piru near Los Angeles, Calif.

The Santa Barbara Film Festival said Friday that it has set dates for its 2022 edition, saying it will return to a fully live, in-person event that will run March 2-12 throughout the coastal city that is less than 100 miles north of Los Angeles.

Nico Tortorella isn't ready to say goodbye just yet.In the series finale, which dropped Thursday on Paramount+, Liza (Sutton Foster) and Charles' (Peter Hermann) rekindled romance fizzled after they came to terms with the fact that full trust would never be reached between the two in a romantic relationship.

Dwayne Johnson masks up as he heads back to a waiting car after dinner out in Los Angeles on Tuesday night (June 8).

Jack Black has gone viral on TikTok after crashing a high school graduation photoshoot in Los Angeles.A photographer, going by the name Visionary Daniel, posted a video of Black on Instagram and TikTok, explaining how the School of Rock star stumbled into the ceremony at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.“We found Jack Black during a graduation shoot,” Daniel wrote in the caption of the video.

Haley Bosselman editorAfter going virtual last year with the online initiative LALIFF Connect 2020, the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival returned as an in-person event on Wednesday. The premiere of “7th and Union” served as the opening night film at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.The Broken English production is the second feature film from director Anthony Nardolillo.

Los Angeles police and fire officials responded to JoJo Siwa's home for a possible drug overdose, according to a report. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department confirmed to Fox News that the agency received a call at 8:19 p.m.

A medical emergency may have put a halt to JoJo Siwa’s Pride Month party.

TMZ said the person suspected of overdosing was a male who is roughly 30 years old. How the man knows JoJo isn't known.