‘This Country’: Desmin Borges To Recur In Fox Comedy Series

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAl Madrigal and Jaime Camil are attached to co-star in a single-camera comedy in development at ABC, Variety has learned.The series is titled “Guerrillas.” Madrigal is co-writing and executive producing in addition to starring, with Camil co-executive producing as well.When Miles Flores (Madrigal), a lonely efficiency expert for an oil company gets kidnapped in South America, he ends up working for a disorganized group of guerrilla soldiers to earn back his freedom.

Kate Beckinsale has booked a new role!

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Beckinsale has been tapped for the lead in Guilty Party, Paramount+’ half-hour dark comedy from Funny or Die. She replaces Isla Fisher, who was originally cast in the role but pulled out over pandemic-related circumstances.

EXCLUSIVE: Pitch alumna Meagan Holder is set for a recurring role opposite Dave Burd on the second season of FXX’s hit comedy series Dave, co-created by and starring rapper and comedian Burd. Season 2 will premiere in 2021.

‘It stopped being a party a long time ago,” is the new tagline for season four of HBO Max‘s “Search Party” and ain’t that the truth. Originally on TBS, “Search Party” was seemingly a fun, amusing, hip, funny show about millennials and millennial angst.

Emma Stone is returning to TV!  Showtime announced on Thursday that it's ordered, a half-hour comedy from A24 starring Stone and Nathan Fielder, both of whom are also signed on to executive produce.The network describes as «a genre-bending scripted comedy that explores how an alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple as they try to conceive a child while co-starring on their problematic new HGTV show.»In addition to Stone and Fielder, will be executive produced by the

Emma Stone has landed an exciting new role!

Joe Otterson TV ReporterShowtime has ordered the comedy series “The Curse,” which hails from Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie. Both will also star in the series alongside Emma Stone.The half-hour series is said to explore how an alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple as they try to conceive a child while co-starring on their problematic new HGTV show.Fielder will direct and executive produce in addition to starring and co-creating the series.

Emma Stone is to star in half-hour comedy The Curse after Showtime handed the show from Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie a series order.

Get ready to learn about your favourite naughty words.

EXCLUSIVE: Maggie Q (Nikita, Designated Survivor) is set as the co-lead opposite Eliza Coupe and Ginnifer Goodwin in Fox’s comedy pilot Pivoting, from writer Liz Astrof, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and Warner Bros TV.

Gabrielle Dennis (Rosewood) Page Kennedy (The Meg), Diamond Lyons, Khali Daniya-Renee Spraggins (Empire), Jermelle Simon (Animal Kingdom) and Journey Christine round out the cast of Netflix’s multi-camera family comedy series The Upshaws. The join previously announced leads Wanda Sykes, Mike Epps and Kim Fields.

Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone are teaming up for a new Netflix comedy series!

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNetflix has ordered a comedy series called “God’s Favorite Idiot” from Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone, Variety has learned.The streamer has commissioned 16 episodes of the series, in which both McCarthy and Falcone will star. Falcone wrote the series, with both he and McCarthy also serving as executive producers via their company On the Day.

Apple TV+ has given a series order to Acapulco, a Spanish and English-language half-hour comedy executive produced and starring Eugenio Derbez. inspired by hit 2017 feature comedy How to Be A Latin Lover, which was headlined by Derbez, Acapulco hails from Lionsgate Television, studio-based The Tannenbaum Company as well as Derbez and Benjamin Odell’s 3Pas Studios.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterEugenio Derbez is set to star in a new comedy series titled “Acapulco” that has been ordered to series at Apple, Variety has learned.The half-hour series, which will be shot in both Spanish and English, is inspired by the film “How to Be a Latin Lover,” in which Derbez starred and produced.In “Acapulco,” a young Mexican man’s dream comes true when he gets the job of a lifetime at the hottest resort in Acapulco.

EXCLUSIVE: Thomas Middleditch, who starred in six seasons of HBO’s Silicon Valley and is currently playing the co-lead in CBS’ B Positive, and Humphrey Ker, writer and actor on Apple TV+’s Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet are prepping a new Canadian historical comedy series.