‘Hit The Road’ Star Jason Alexander On Making A Family Comedy Not For Families — TCA
Posted on Wednesday July 26, 2017

Audience Network’s new comedy Hit The Road,  closed out today’s panel presentation at the TCA confab in Beverly Hills. Starring Jason Alexander, the comedy follows a chaotically dysfunctional family of would-be rock/pop stars traverse the country in a cramped second-hand tour bus, seeking Partridge Family-esque fame. However, unlike The Partridge Family series, Hit the Road may not actually be suited for families.”It is our job, and the Audience Network's job, to not let…

David Letterman Talks The Changing Late-Night Landscape, His Talk Show Return On ‘Norm Macdonald Live’
Posted on Wednesday July 26, 2017

The season premiere of Norm Macdonald Live featured a rare appearance from David Letterman. The retired host of The Late Show had a casual conversation with Saturday Night Live alum Macdonald, talking about his career and the current state of the late-night game — but there was plenty of time for the two to crack some jokes while doing so. There was no talk about the ’90s late night wars in the hour-long conversation that premiered on YouTube, but towards the last 15…

‘Loudermilk’ Star Ron Livingston Wonders If Critics Watch TV Until Their Eyes Bleed – TCA
Posted on Wednesday July 26, 2017

“When I came out here in ’84 I had zero interest in doing TV,” Audience Network’s Loudermilk co-creator Peter Farrelly told TV critics at TCA. Best known for such films as Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber, Shallow Hal, etc.,  Farrelly said he was glad to make the move, to keep doing boundary pushing programming “Without question that's not happening in film any more,” he said. Though Ron Livingston plays Sam Loudermilk, the abrasive recovering alcoholic/former music…

‘Wonder Woman 2’ Gets 2019 Release Date
Posted on Wednesday July 26, 2017

Diana Prince has a Christmas gift for you — but you can’t peek for 2 1/2 years. Warner Bros said today that its sequel Wonder Woman 2 starring Gal Gadot will crash into megaplexes and Imax theaters on December 13, 2019. No director is set for Round 2. The studio had announced its DC slate at Comic-Con over the weekend, but no WW2 date was announced. Warners had staked that date for “Untitled WB Event Film III.” The flick has that date to itself for now, But Sony’s Masters…

‘Mr. Mercedes’ Director On Tackling Violent Themes — TCA
Posted on Wednesday July 26, 2017

The premise of Audience Network’s new series, Mr. Mercedes, based on Stephen King’s 2014 novel, promises to involve some violent material. The series follows Brady Hartsfield (Harry Treadaway), a demented killer who taunts a retired police detective Bill Hodges (Brendan Gleeson) with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he is able to strike again. During…