Turns out, Marcello Hernández is one of Dave Chappelle‘s favorite comedians. It also turns out that that’s not much of a distinction.
In the most recent promo for Chappelle’s Saturday Night Live hosting stint this weekend, cast member Hernández tells Chappelle that he is one of his favorite stand-up comedians.
“Hey, man. Thanks, bro. You’re one of my favorite standups, too” replies Chappelle.
Hernández looks happy, until musical guest GloRilla bursts his bubble.
Watch what happens below.
Chappelle comes back to SNL for the fourth time. He addressed the country following the weighty presidential elections of 2016 and 2020, before returning in 2022. The comic is joined for this week’s episode by musical guest GloRilla, who’s coming off of a pair of Grammy nominations for her single “Yeah Glo!”.
Following the January shows, SNL returns in mid-February with SNL50: The Anniversary Special on Sunday, February 16.
Saturday Night Live is produced in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels.
Source: Deadline
It looks like Calvin and Tina’s two sons might move to another neighborhood on CBS next season.
The Eye network is developing a potential second spinoff from long-running comedy The Neighborhood headlined by Marcel Spears (Marty) and Sheaun McKinney (Malcolm). The proposed multi-camera series will follow their characters as they venture out of their parents’ home and migrate from Pasadena to Venice Beach.
The season finale of The Neighborhood will serve as a backdoor pilot for the untitled project.
Last spring, streaming partner Paramount+ ordered Crutch, the first spinoff from The Neighborhood, headlined by Tracy Morgan as the cousin of Cedric the Entertainer’s Calvin Butler. Adrianna Mitchell and Jermaine Fowler have also been cast in the offshoot series. Per the logline, a “Harlem widower’s empty-nest plans get disrupted when his millennial son and free-spirited daughter move back in, forcing him to navigate new family dynamics and redefine his priorities.”
There is no official start date for Crutch at press time.
This Marty and Malcolm spinoff from The Neighborhood, meanwhile, is in the running for the 2025-26 TV season. A potential time period could be Monday at 8:30 p.m. out of the parent series should the current modestly rated occupant, Poppa’s House with Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr., not get renewed for a second season.
The Marty and Malcolm spinoff in development is executive produced by Bill Martin, Mike Schiff, Cedric the Entertainer, Aaron Kaplan, Wendi Trilling and Eric C. Rhone.
LOS ANGELES: “The Neighborhood” – Pictured (L-R): Marcel Spears (Marty Butler), Hank Greenspan … [+]
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Laverne Cox returns to small-town life in Clean Slate, one of the late Norman Lear‘s last shows, at Prime Video.
The streamer released the trailer for the eight-episode comedy series, which premieres February 6th.
Cox and and George Wallace star in the comedy which follows Harry (Wallace), an old-school car wash owner in Alabama who has a lot of soul-searching to do when the child he once called “son” returns after 17 years as a proud trans woman named Desiree (Cox). Her homecoming brings together a hilarious cast of friends, coworkers, and love interests as Desiree and Harry try to get it right the second time around.
Cast also includes Telma Hopkins, D.K. Uzoukwu, Jay Wilkison, and Norah Murphy. Clean Slate is produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television. The series is created by CX.
Cox of Laverne Cox Productions, Wallace, and Dan Ewen (Dear Santa, Playing with Fire) are creators and executive producers of the series. Lear, who died in December 2023, executive produced via his Act III Productions, along with Brent Miller. Ewen co-showruns the series with executive producer Simran Baidwan. Paul Hilepo is a producer. Nisha Ganatra directed the series pilot.
Watch the trailer below.
In this episode, we discuss if the Dallas Cowboys should hire Deion Sanders, and we also talk about the rest of the NFL playoffs from this past weekend! We also take a look at the final games of this upcoming weekend and we make our picks!
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Daredevil is back in the MCU once again.
Disney has released the trailer for the upcoming Marvel TV series, “Daredevil: Born Again,” coming to Disney+ on March 4, 2025.
The gritty, street-level Marvel series will be the official reintroduction of Charlie Cox’s Daredevil and his cast of characters from the original Marvel TV series that launched on Netflix. The last time MCU fans saw Daredevil, he was hooking up with Tatiana Maslany’s Jennifer Walters, aka She-Hulk, in the 2022 Disney+ series “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.” He also popped up briefly in the Disney+ series “Echo” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” as Peter Parker’s lawyer. “Born Again” will be the first TV series starring Cox as Daredevil after his Netflix series wrapped after three seasons, and it brings back several other key characters like Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin and Jon Bernthal’s Punisher.
The “Daredevil: Born Again” logline reads: “Matt Murdock (Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened abilities is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk (D’Onofrio) pursues his own political endeavors in New York. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.”
Along with Cox, D’Onofrio and Bernthal, the series brings back Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page; Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson; Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Marianna and Wilson Bethel as Poindexter. The cast also includes Michael Gandolfini, Margarita Levieva and Jeremy Earl.
Showrunner Dario Scardapane serves as an executive producer alongside Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Brad Winderbaum, Sana Amanat, Chris Gary, Christopher Ord, Matthew Corman, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Episodes are directed by Michael Cuesta, Jeffrey Nachmanoff, David Boyd, and Benson and Moorhead.
Drake has filed a defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group, the parent record label he and Kendrick Lamar are signed to.
According to The New York Times, Drake filed a lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday and called the release of Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” which is aimed at the Canadian rapper, an example of valuing “corporate greed over the safety and well-being of its artists.”
Drake is signed to UMG subsidiary Republic Records, while Lamar is signed to UMG’s Interscope Records. The new lawsuit claims UMG “approved, published and launched a campaign to create a viral hit out of a rap track” that was “intended to convey the specific, unmistakable and false factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile, and to suggest that the public should resort to vigilante justice in response.”
Drake’s latest suit comes two months after he claimed UMG and Spotify inflated the streams of “Not Like Us.” But it was reported late Tuesday that he dropped the legal action in that case.
“This lawsuit is not about the artist who created ‘Not Like Us,’” the new suit claims, according to NYT. “It is, instead, entirely about UMG, the music company that decided to publish, promote, exploit, and monetize allegations that it understood were not only false, but dangerous.”
Lamar’s “Not Like Us” was one of 2024’s biggest hits. It spent two weeks on top of the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 chart; it spent 20 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot rap songs chart. The song is nominated for five Grammy Awards, including song and record of the year, and it has become an international, cultural anthem and more than a dis track.
Lamar released the anthemic West Coast banger in May after the rappers’ feud resurfaced in March. After going back and forth with dis songs, Lamar dropped “Not Like Us,” calling Drake a pedophile and accusing him of appropriating Black culture. The upbeat DJ Mustard-produced track set streaming records and spectators crowned Lamar the winner of the battle as a result. The beef originated in 2013 when Lamar — who formerly collaborated with Drake and opened for him on tour — sent jabs to 11 of his contemporaries through his guest verse on Big Sean’s “Control.”
Source: The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times
Years after giving up life as CIA spies to start a family, Emily (Cameron Diaz) and Matt (Jamie Foxx) find themselves dragged back into the world of espionage when their cover is blown.
On Netflix January 17.
“St. Denis Medical” is scrubbing up for Season 2.
NBC has renewed the hospital-set sitcom for a second season before the end of its first season run. The show is one of NBC’s most-watched programs of the 2024-2025 season, with 21.4 million total viewers to date.
Starring Wendi McLendon-Covey, David Alan Grier, Allison Tolman, Josh Lawson, Kahyun Kim, Mekki Leeper and Kaliko Kauahi, “St. Denis Medical” is a mockumentary set at an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital. In a format similar to “The Office,” “Parks and Recreation” and “Abbott Elementary,” the series follows dedicated doctors and nurses as they balance treating patients with maintaining their own sanity.
“St. Denis Medical” is up for two Critics Choice Awards, for best comedy series and best actor in a comedy series for Grier, who is also nominated for an NAACP Image Award.
The series is executive produced and written by showrunner Eric Ledgin and Justin Spitzer. Simon Heuer, Ruben Fleischer, Bridget Kyle and Vicky Luu also executive produce. “St. Denis Medical” is produced by Universal Television and Spitzer Holding Company.
Variety chief TV critic Alison Herman called “St. Denis Medical” a “winning workplace comedy,” writing that the series is “clear-eyed about what its characters face, but also about how those obstacles provide ample fodder for comedy.” She shouted out McLendon-Covey as a standout performer as the “pathologically optimistic Joyce, who encourages her staff to overcome structural problems with the power of positive thinking.”
“St. Denis Medical” is currently airing its first season, with episodes launching Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on NBC and the next day on Peacock.
Source: Variety
Levon Cade (Jason Statham) left behind a decorated military career in the black ops to live a simple life working construction. But when his boss’s daughter, who is like family to him, is taken by human traffickers, his search to bring her home uncovers a world of corruption far greater than he ever could have imagined.
The film stars Michael Peña and David Harbour and is directed by David Ayer. The screenplay by Sylvester Stallone and David Ayer, and is based on the book “Levon’s Trade” by Chuck Dixon.
In Theaters March 28th.
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In this new episode of Box Seats, the comedian known as Earthquake joins the show as we discuss the Dallas Cowboys situation and how they are handling Mike McCarthy, and what he thinks about Tom Brady being involved in selecting the Las Vegas Raiders new head coach. Plus, we also discuss the upcoming NFL playoffs, and Jason Whitlock’s comments on Skip Bayless!
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