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As with almost every role she plays on Saturday Night Live, Kate McKinnon does a wicked version of Fox News' Laura Ingraham. Listing off rising inflation, rocking gas prices, and the flaws of the Green M&M girl, McKinnon's wonky-eyed Ingraham went right after the first year of Joe Biden's "disaster" of a presidency in…

Will Forte is next on the lineup of Saturday Night Live hosts, following West Side Story‘s Ariana DeBose tonight who brought the NBC sketch series into 2022. During Saturday’s broadcast, SNL revealed that the MacGruber and HouseBroken actor will take the stage alongside Måneskin, the Italian rock band that won the…

Will Ferrell (The Shrink Next Door, Spirited), Jamie Foxx (Soul, Just Mercy) and Will Forte (MacGruber, HouseBroken) will star in Strays, an animated comedy that Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar director Josh Greenbaum is helming for Universal, Deadline has confirmed. The film combining CGI and live-action elements…

Peacock has revealed MacGruber is set to premiere on Dec. 16 with a first look teaser featuring stars Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe, and Billy Zane. The eight-episode action-comedy is based on Forte's recurring MacGyver parody sketch on Saturday Night Live and its 2010 cult movie offshoot. Co-written and…

Peacock is stacking up the cast of MacGruber, the eight-episode action comedy series based on Will Forte's recurring MacGyver parody sketch on Saturday Night Live and its 2010 cult movie offshoot. Sam Elliott, Laurence Fishburne and Mickey Rourke have joined the series, from Universal Television, joining Forte…

Will Forte has teamed up with the producers of Fleabag on a suicide drama in the works at Peacock. The streamer is developing Expiration Date, which The Last Man on Earth actor will star in and exec produce alongside Harry and Jack Williams, who are also the writers of British crime dramas such as Liar and The Missing…

During The Great North‘s TCA slot on Wednesday, creators Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin had a message for networks with new shows in progress: “Pick up those seasons early.” Months before the Molyneux sisters’ Alaska comedy made its debut on Fox in January, the network ordered a sophomore reason, granting…

NBCUniversal’s streaming platform Peacock continues to build up its original comedy slate with a straight-to-series series order to MacGruber, starring, co-written and executive produced by Will Forte. The action comedy, which stems from Forte’s recurring MacGyver parody sketch on Saturday Night Live, was part of…

It has taken half a century since the 1969 TV debut of lovable great Dane Scooby-Doo to see an animated feature come to fruition, but its time has come and thus we have Scoob! The Warner Bros toon originally was scheduled to open wide in theaters today, but the studio scrapped those plans because of the coronavirus…

With just about anything he does, Ricky Gervais makes me laugh, and that is a key reason I warmed right away to the loony high jinks of the latest attempt by Netflix to crash the animation market.  As the chatty tabby who guides us as narrator of The Willoughbys, a film version of the children’s book by Lois Lowry…

Netflix has dropped the first look at its forthcoming highly stylized CG animated film, The Willoughbys, which features the voices of Will Forte, Maya Rudolph, Alessia Cara, Terry Crews, Martin Short, Jane Krakowski, Séan Cullen, and Ricky Gervais. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 helmer Kris Pearn wrote and…

Will Forte (The Last Man On Earth) and Kaitlin Olson (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) learn home renovations can be dangerous in Quibi’s new comedy series Flipped. The streaming platform released the first teaser today for the series, which finds self-proclaimed home renovation “experts” Forte and Olson stumbling…