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Glen Powell’s upcoming Hulu comedy series “Chad Powers” has added four recurring guest stars.

Variety has learned that Clayne Crawford, Toby Huss, Colton Ryan, and Xavier Mills have all joined the series, in which Powell will play the title role in addition to co-creating it. The cast also includes Perry Mattfeld as Ricky, Quentin Plair as Coach Byrd, Wynn Everett as Tricia, Frankie A. Rodriguez as Danny, and Steve Zahn as Jake Hudson.

The official description for “Chad Powers” states, “When bad behavior nukes hotshot Qb Russ Holliday’s (Powell) college career, he disguises himself and walks onto a struggling Southern football team as the talented, affable Chad Powers.” The show is based on the Chad Powers character created by Eli Manning for his Epsn+ docuseries “Eli’s Places.”

Crawford will play Coach Dobbs. Crawford’s recent credits include films like “Finestkind” and “The King Tide.” He is also known...

The Hulu half-hour comedy series Chad Powers has added Clayne Crawford (The Finestkind), Xavier Mills (Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire), Colton Ryan (Poker Face) and Toby Huss (Fatal Attraction) to its recurring cast.

They join previously announced series regulars Glen Powell as Russ Holliday/Chad Powers, Perry Mattfeld as Ricky, Quentin Plair as Coach Byrd, Wynn Everett as Tricia, Frankie A. Rodriguez as Danny and Steve Zahn as Jake Hudson.

In the series, when bad behavior nukes hotshot Qb Russ Holliday’s college career, he disguises himself and walks onto a struggling Southern football team as the talented, affable Chad Powers.

Chad Powers is based on an Eli Manning sketch that aired on ESPN+. Glenn Powell and Michael Waldron co-created the series, co-wrote the pilot and executive produce for Barnstorm Productions and Anomaly Pictures, respectively. Adam Fasullo also EPs for Anomaly Pictures. Eli Manning executive produces along with Omaha Productions’ Peyton Manning,...

Hulu has shared a first look at Glen Powell as Chad Powers in its upcoming comedy series, which has officially started production.

Hulu’s half-hour comedy Chad Powers from co-creators and executive producers Glen Powell and Michael Waldron. Eli Manning serves as executive producer along with Omaha Productions’ Peyton Manning, Jamie Horowitz, Ben Brown, and ESPN.

When bad behavior nukes hotshot Qb Russ Holliday’s college career, he disguises himself and walks onto a struggling Southern football team as the talented, affable Chad Powers.

Based on the sketch produced by NFL Films and Omaha Productions that aired on ESPN+ as part of the Eli’s Places series, the half-hour comedy from 20th Television will stream on Hulu. Powell and Waldron co-wrote the pilot.

Waldron and Adam Fasullo are executive producing for Anomaly Pictures. Luve Rakhe will also executive produce, and Tony Yacenda will serve as director and executive producer.

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“Twisters” star Glen Powell is barely recognizable in the first photo from his upcoming Hulu comedy series, “Chad Powers.”

The streamer announced Thursday that production has begun on the project, which Powell is coproducing with “Loki” executive producer and writer Michael Waldron.

The actor, who was a master of disguise in Richard Linklater’s comic feature “Hit Man” on Netflix, is playing hotheaded quarterback Russ Holliday, who in “Tootsie”-esque twist, is forced to go under cover as the affable Chad Powers to keep playing football.

Powell and Waldron cowrote the pilot. Steve Zahn, Toby Huss, Perry Mattfeld, Wynn Everett, Frankie A. Rodriguez and Quentin Plair costar.

Catch the first look photo below:

First look image of Glen Powell in “Chad Powers” (Credit: Hulu)

Former New York Giants star Eli Manning serves as executive producer along with his brother, Omaha Productions’ Peyton Manning. Jamie Horowitz (former WWE EVP of development...

Glen Powell is the big man on campus once again.

After starring as a college student in “Everybody Wants Some!!” and later as a college professor in “Hit Man,” both directed by Richard Linklater, Powell is now going quasi-undercover as a college quarterback for Hulu comedy series “Chad Powers.”

Powell, who recently co-wrote “Hit Man” with Linklater, is the co-creator, co-writer, executive producer, and lead star of “Chad Powers,” which is inspired by Eli Manning’s former sketch series. Powell co-created the half-hour Hulu comedy with Michael Waldron, who also executive produces. Powell and Waldron co-wrote the pilot episode.

The logline reads: “When bad behavior nukes hotshot Qb Russ Holliday’s college career, he disguises himself and walks onto a struggling Southern football team as the talented, affable Chad Powers.”

And the Chad Powers look includes Powell donning a prosthetic to be eerily similar to his “Top Gun” co-star and public mentor Tom Cruise.

Hulu has released a first look at Glen Powell in character for the comedy series Chad Powers.

In the half-hour show, co-created and executive produced by Powell and Michael Waldron, when bad behavior nukes hotshot Qb Russ Holliday’s (Powell) college career, he disguises himself and walks onto a struggling Southern football team as the talented, affable Chad Powers.

The comedy series is based on the sketch produced by NFL Films and Omaha Productions that aired on ESPN+ as part of the Eli’s Places series.

Glen Powell in ‘Chad Powers’

Manning serves as executive producer along with Omaha Productions’ Peyton Manning, Jamie Horowitz, Ben Brown, and ESPN. Waldron, who co-wrote the pilot script with Powell, and Adam Fasullo are producing for Anomaly Pictures. Powell is an executive producer under his production co-banner Brainstorm.

Quentin Plair and Wynn Everett recently joined Chad Powers as series regulars. Plair will play Coach Byrd,...

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is a British teen mystery drama series created by Poppy Cogan. Based on the 2017 young adult mystery crime novel of the same name by author Holly Jackson, the BBC and Netflix series is set five years after a murder-suicide in which a popular high-school girl was murdered by her boyfriend, who later killed himself, at least that’s what everyone believes in their town of Little Kilton. We follow the story of Pip Fitz-Amobi (Emma Myers), who is now a high school senior. She believes that there is more to this mystery than meets the eye, and that’s why she begins an investigation into the case, but if she is right and her boyfriend didn’t kill her, then there is a killer out there who could become a danger for Pip. So, if you like the mystery, drama, romance, and small-town vibes...

Bodkin is a dark comedy crime-drama series created by Jez Scharf. The Netflix series is set in the fictional town of Bodkin in Ireland. It follows the story of an American podcaster Gilbert, a London-based investigative journalist Dove, and a researcher Emmy as they investigate a decades-old disappearance of three young people on the night of the Samhain festival. Bodkin stars Will Forte, Siobhán Cullen, and Robyn Cara in the lead roles with David Wilmot, Chris Walley, Seán Óg, Peter Bankole, and Kerri McLean starring in supporting roles. If you loved the dark humor and thrills of a murder investigation in Bodkin here are some similar shows you could watch next.

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Only Murders in the Building is a murder mystery comedy-drama series created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman. The Hulu series follows a trio of strangers who share the love of...

Dave “Lil Dicky” Burd returns to television with season 3 of his Fxx/Hulu series Dave. This season, Lil Dicky is on tour a quest for love and gets into plenty of genital-joke-filled shenanigans along the way. Featuring an incredibly talented cast and team of creatives behind the scenes who give the storytelling dimension, Dave Season 3 gets a 4.5 star review. Here’s what made the third season of the rapper’s Fxx series excellent.

‘Dave’ Season 3 is excellent | Showbiz Cheat Sheet ‘Dave’ cast reverts back to the basics in season 3

Season 1 of Dave was about Burd’s initial viral success and his quest to achieve long-lasting fame. In season 2, that fame quickly went to the rapper’s head. As a result, fame compromised some of the most important relationships in his life, especially his girlfriend Ally (Taylor Misiak).

Dave Season 3 strikes a balance between the versions of Lil Dicky we saw in the first two seasons.

The scripted pilot based on Jessica Simpson’s bestselling memoir “Open Book” is not moving forward at Amazon Freevee, Variety has confirmed. Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s period comedy “Western” has also been scrapped, though both potential series are now being shopped elsewhere.

The pilot for “Open Book” was ordered by Amazon Freevee back in October, with Tom Kapinos set to write and executive produce and Adam Bernstein on board as a director and executive producer. Katelyn Tarver would play Sadie Sparrow, a young singer based on Simpson, while John Stamos was cast as her older songwriter, Butch. Over time, the two would develop a connection that went beyond music.

Simpson was set to executive produce the project, along with Patrick Moran for his Pkm Productions and Amazon Studios. Lauren Auslander and Lacy Lynch were also on board as executive producers.

Meanwhile, Lord and Miller’s “Western” was set...

Exclusive: Amazon Freevee will not be moving forward with two of its half-hour scripted pilots, Western and Open Book. Both are currently being shopped elsewhere.

Western is a period comedy developed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Sony TV-based Lord Miller. Pen15 co-creator and star Anna Konkle had been tapped to lead the series.

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Written by Michelle Morgan, Western is set in the 1800s. It follows Polly (Konkle), a young high-society woman from Philadelphia who travels out west on a desperate quest for a husband only to discover that she has been catfished by a teenage boy. Now stranded in 1866 Montana, Polly,...

Usually when the subject of a documentary sits for an hours-long interview, they’re pulling their responses from memories and past experiences. It’s a culmination, rather than a beginning.

For Misha Brooks, playing the part of enigmatic veteran gamer Creamcheese in the Paramount+ mockumentary series “Players,” that experience was flipped. The team behind “American Vandal” envisioned “Players” as a follow-up that could approach the worlds of Epsorts and sports documentaries the same way their first show tackled the particulars of true crime. So Creamcheese becomes a quintessential lead figure in a shuffled-timeline, retrospective, “The Last Dance”-style look at a quest for a championship, this time in the world of League of Legends. Over the course of ten episodes, the show cuts back to “interviews” with Creamcheese as he outlines the history of his team Fugitive and its run for Lcs glory.

It’s a simple idea in theory,...

Exclusive: Guy Burnet, Luca Diaz and Daniella Pineda have been cast opposite Anna Konkle in Amazon Freevee’s Western, a half-hour period comedy pilot from Sony Pictures Television, Amazon Studios and Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Sony TV-based Lord Miller.

Written by Michelle Morgan, Western is set in the 1800s. It follows Polly (Konkle), a young high-society woman from Philadelphia who travels out west on a desperate quest for a husband only to discover that she has been catfished by a teenage boy (Diaz). Now stranded in 1866 Montana, Polly, along with the town’s other inhabitants, must find their place in this ever-changing new world, confronting and defying all expectations society has of them along the way.

Burnet plays Dr. Conely. A handsome, soulful and tortured British doctor of this small town. After making a vow to his dearly departed wife, never to remarry again, he finds himself alone...

The new 10-episode ‘mockumentary’ TV series “Players”, follows the world of ‘esports’, now streaming on Paramount+:

“…from the ‘Peabody Award’-winning creators of ‘American Vandal’, Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, ‘Players’ is a comedic documentary-style series that follows a fictional pro ‘League of Legends’ esports team, as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache.

“To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together…”

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Exclusive: Pen15 co-creator and star Anna Konkle has been tapped as the lead in Amazon Freevee’s Western, a half-hour period comedy pilot from Sony Pictures Television, Amazon Studios and Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Sony TV-based Lord Miller.

Written by Michelle Morgan, Western is set in the 1800s. It follows Polly (Konkle), a young high-society woman from Philadelphia who travels out west on a desperate quest for a husband only to discover that she has been catfished by a teenage boy. Now stranded in 1866 Montana, Polly, along with the town’s other inhabitants, must find their place in this ever-changing new world, confronting and defying all expectations society has of them along the way.

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Although her good breeding and opulent clothing make her stand out like a sore thumb in this dustbowl of a town, Polly’s wit and unexpected charm ultimately earn her a place there.

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Players” Season 1, including the ending.]

Start wherever you want to with “Players.” There’s the premise of the Paramount+ show, a fictional documentary series about a tumultuous esports team in search of an elusive League of Legends Championship Series (Lcs) trophy. There are the performances, headlined here by Misha Brooks as Creamcheese, the polarizing veteran star, and Da’Jour Jones as Organizm, the uber-talented, soft-spoken prodigy that could shake up Fugitive Gaming’s misfortunes. There’s the structure, which follows in the style of the ’90s Chicago Bulls opus “The Last Dance,” tracking one season while hopping back in time to give some much-needed context.

For all its technical and logistical prowess, “Players” also happens to be one of the funniest comedies on TV right now. It’s not surprising, given the braintrust behind the show, led by writers/creators Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda. Their success, just as it was on the two-season Netflix series “American Vandal,...

The new 10-episode ‘mockumentary’ TV series “Players”, follows the world of ‘esports’, now streaming on Paramount+:

“…from the ‘Peabody Award’-winning creators of ‘American Vandal’, Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, ‘Players’ is a comedic documentary-style series that follows a fictional pro ‘League of Legends’ esports team, as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache.

“To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together…”

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The new 10-episode ‘mockumentary’ TV series “Players”, follows the world of ‘esports’, now streaming on Paramount+:

“…from the ‘Peabody Award’-winning creators of ‘American Vandal’, Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, ‘Players’ is a comedic documentary-style series that follows a fictional pro ‘League of Legends’ esports team, as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache.

“To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together…”

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Chances are you’re either deeply familiar with the wide world of gamers and streamers, or you’re so completely unaware of how far it reaches that the very idea of “esports” is enough to make your head spin. As part of the latter camp, but with a sister very much entrenched in the former, I approached “Players” — the new Paramount+ comedy about a professional gaming team wrestling for relevance — with equal parts caution and curiosity. Could this scripted show delving into what makes gaming so huge make me finally understand why? Or would it rely on niche enough jargon and humor that it’d fly right over my head?

After watching the better part of its 10-episode season, the answer is…well, a bit of both. But in framing the series like a classic sports docuseries in the vein of a “Last Dance,” co-creators Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda...

The new 10-episode ‘mockumentary’ TV series “Players”, follows the world of ‘esports’, now streaming on Paramount+:

“…from the ‘Peabody Award’-winning creators of ‘American Vandal’, Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, ‘Players’ is a comedic documentary-style series that follows a fictional pro ‘League of Legends’ esports team, as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache.

“To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together…”

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When you think of the two-season run of Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda’s American Vandal, you probably think of drawn dicks and the Turd Burglar.

Or, if you’re more obsessed with the realities of the television industry, maybe you remember American Vandal as one of the earliest signs of Netflix’s shift to an “ownership is everything” ethos; the show was canceled after two wildly acclaimed seasons because it was a CBS Television Studios production and not a Netflix original.

When I reflect on American Vandal, it’s mostly on the commitment to the exaggerated bit. Both seasons were one-joke mockumentary gags that somehow ended up being less funny and more successful because of Perrault and Yacenda’s astonishingly sincere approach to the stories they were telling and not simply to extended and escalating gags.

After a strangely long absence — they...

“Create a satisfying and involving emotional arc for a character named Creamcheese” feels like something out of a dare. Whether it’s on the back of a jersey, listed on screen, or spoken by any number of characters within a sprawling fictional Esports saga, seeing or hearing that collection of vowels should be a dealbreaker.

And yet, the central figure of the new Paramount+ series “Players” is boisterous enough, vulnerable enough, and pathologically fixated on his own image that Creamcheese feels right at home in the echelon of athletes compelling enough for their own documentary series (even if he doesn’t actually exist).

“Players” is the latest offering from creators Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, a duo that made two equally earnest and absurd seasons of “American Vandal.” Taking the true crime boom to the halls of a high school, it was a show that used over-the-top premises as a...

The new 10-episode ‘mockumentary’ TV series “Players”, follows the world of ‘esports’, streaming June 16, 2022 on Paramount+:

“…from the ‘Peabody Award’-winning creators of ‘American Vandal’, Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, ‘Players’ is a comedic documentary-style series that follows a fictional pro ‘League of Legends’ esports team, as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache.

“To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together…”

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Paramount+ has released the official trailer, premiere date and key art for the upcoming original series Players. Produced by CBS Studios in association with Funny Or Die and co-created and executive produced by Peabody Award winners Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, the ten-episode series will premiere on Thursday, June 16, exclusively on Paramount+. The first […]

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Fresh off the first-ever Netflix is a Joke comedy festival, the streamer confirmed which performances will be available to view in the coming weeks, including tributes to late comedians such as Bob Saget and Robin Williams and the yet-to-be-announced date for Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias’s groundbreaking set at Dodger Stadium.

Featuring a wide range of events and stars, the festival also made headlines for some of its comedians’ jokes, such as Pete Davidson’s digs at Kanye West. But the biggest news of the fest was when Dave Chappelle was tackled on stage during his set at the Hollywood Bowl, with the attacker being charged with four misdemeanor counts. For its part, Netflix responded by saying, “We care deeply about the safety of creators and we strongly defend the right of stand-up comedians to perform on stage without fear of violence.” Chappelle’s four sold-out shows are not included in...

Exclusive: Taylor Misiak, who stars in Fxx comedy series Dave, has got new representation.

Misiak has signed with CAA in all areas.

It comes as Dave was renewed last month for a third season.

In the comedy series, Misiak plays Ally, Dave’s ex-girlfriend and a teacher. After breaking up in season one, she and the eponymous character find themselves awkwardly stumbling into a new dynamic.

She is also starring in Paramount+’s Players, the mockumentary series from American Vandal creators Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault. The series follows a fictional League of Legends pro eSports team.

That role sees her reuniting with Yacenda and Perrault – she starred in season two of Netflix’s American Vandal. She has also appeared in NBC’s I Feel Bad and HBO Max’s animated series Ten Year Old Tom.

Misiak got her first break, starring in the Pillow Talking music video, from Lil Dicky,...

Exclusive: Stephen Schneider (Broad City) has joined the cast of Paramount+’s upcoming esports series Players. The series hails from American Vandal co-creators Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, Funny or Die, Riot Games and CBS Studios.

Players, co-created and executive produced by Yacenda and Perrault, who also directs; follows a fictional pro League of Legends esports team as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache. To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together.

The series is produced by CBS Studios in association with Funny or Die. Funny or Die’s Joe Farrell and Mike Farah also serve as executive producers alongside Tim McAuliffe, Riot Games, 3Arts’ Ari Lubet and Brillstein Entertainment Partners’ Todd Sellers.

Schneider is set for a recurring role. No charcter details have been revealed. He will appear opposite Da’Jour Jones,...

Exclusive: Ely Henry (Connecting) has joined the cast of Players, Paramount+ upcoming esports series. Players comes from American Vandal co-creators Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, Funny or Die, Riot Games and CBS Studios.

Co-created and executive produced by Yacenda and Perrault, who also directs, Players follows a fictional pro League of Legends esports team as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache. To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together.

Players is produced by CBS Studios in association with Funny or Die. Funny or Die’s Joe Farrell and Mike Farah also serve as executive producers alongside Tim McAuliffe, Riot Games, 3Arts’ Ari Lubet and Brillstein Entertainment Partners’ Todd Sellers.

Henry will be a series regular alongside Da’Jour Jones and Misha Brooks. Additional cast members are Noh Arrow Dong-Hyeon,...

Exclusive: Paramount+ has added Moses Storm (I’m Dying Up Here) to its upcoming esports series Players.

The docu-style series comes from Peabody-winning American Vandal co-creators Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, Funny or Die, Riot Games and CBS Studios.

Co-created and executive produced by Yacenda and Perrault, who also directs, Players follows a fictional pro League of Legends esports team as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache. To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together.

Players is produced by CBS Studios in association with Funny or Die. Funny or Die’s Joe Farrell and Mike Farah also serve as executive producers alongside Tim McAuliffe, Riot Games, 3Arts’ Ari Lubet and Brillstein Entertainment Partners’ Todd Sellers.

Storm will recur as Guru. A former member of the team who transitioned to streaming instead,...

From the Peabody Award-winning creators of Netflix’s American Vandal comes the new mockumentary series Players, which will premiere on Paramount+. The Viacom CBS streamer released a first look image at the new series from co-creators Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault about a fictional esports team looking to nab their first victory in years. “Players is a comedic documentary-style series that follows a fictional pro League of Legends esports team, as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache. To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together,” reads the show’s description. Featured in the first look are cast members Noh Arrow Dong-Hyeon, Michael “Miko” Ahn, Misha Brooks, Da’Jour Jones, and Youngbin Chung as the series’ main video gaming crew. No additional casting has been announced. For those unfamiliar with the world of online gaming,...

Exclusive: The Walking Dead: World Beyond’s Alexa Mansour has joined Paramount+’s esports series Players.

The docu-style series comes from Peabody-Award winning American Vandal co-creators Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, Funny or Die, Riot Games and CBS Studios.

Co-created and executive produced by Yacenda and Perrault, who also directs, Players follows a fictional pro League of Legends esports team, as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache. To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together.

Players is produced by CBS Studios in association with Funny Or Die. Funny Or Die’s Joe Farrell and Mike Farah also serve as executive producers alongside Tim McAuliffe, Riot Games, 3Arts’ Ari Lubet and Brillstein Entertainment Partners’ Todd Sellers.

Mansour will recur as Emma, a popular streamer who has a true love...

The Beta Test, the newest micro-budget film from independent actor-writer-director Jim Cummings, finds the Emerson College alum teaming up with his friend, classmate, and collaborator Pj McCabe. The two worked together on 2020’s The Wolf of Snow Hollow, along with a slew of shorts over the past 15 years. Co-writing, co-director, and co-starring in The Beta Test, Cummings and McCabe craft a drama that leans into different genres more often than not—it wants to be “genre-fluid,” as the two describe it. In their own words, they just “wanted to make a dope movie.”

Following a scummy Hollywood talent agent (played by Cummings), the film navigates a topsy-turvy story focused on (mostly) bad people making (mostly) bad decisions. It attempts to satirize the prototypical “man in charge,” laughing at his mistakes and cautioning others to choose differently. It contains moments of pure shock, surrounding the agent’s involvement with a secret,...

Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, the creators of the terrific Netflix comedy "American Vandal," are returning to the world of streaming with a brand new mockumentary series set in the world of eSports.

Variety reports that Yacenda and Perrault have landed a series order at Paramount+ for a show called "Players," which is described like this:

"Players" follows a fictional pro "League of Legends" team as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache. To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together.

Yacenda, who directed every episode of "American Vandal" and...

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“American Vandal” creators Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault have landed a series order at Paramount Plus for an eSports mockumentary series called “Players,” Variety has learned.

“Players” follows a fictional pro “League of Legends” team as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache. To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together.

Yacenda and Perrault created “Players” and will also serve as executive producers, with Yacenda also attached to direct. Funny Or Die’s Joe Farrell and Mike Farah serve as executive producers alongside Tim McAuliffe, Riot Games, 3Arts’ Ari Lubet and Brillstein Entertainment Partners’ Todd Sellers. CBS Studios will produce in association with Funny or Die.

Perrault and Yacenda are no strangers to the mockumentary format, as they proved with “American Vandal.” The first season of the Netflix series...

Paramount+ will explore the world of esports in Players, a new comedic docu-style series from Peabody Award-winning American Vandal co-creators Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, Funny or Die, Riot Games and CBS Studios.

The ViacomCBS streaming service has given a series order to the project, which is said to be in the vein of Netflix/ESPN Films’ Emmy-winning Michael Jordan docuseries The Last Dance.

Co-created and executive produced by Yacenda and Perrault, who also directs, Players follows a fictional pro League of Legends esports team, as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache. To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together.

Riot Games’ League of Legends is the most-played PC game in the world and generates billions of hours of gameplay per year. League of Legends is also the largest esport on the planet,...

Paramount+ is getting its own version of “American Vandal” from the “American Vandal” creators.

The ViacomCBS streaming service has ordered “Players” from Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, the duo behind the Netflix docuseries-style scripted comedy. “Players” follows a fictional pro League of Legends esports team, as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache. To win it all, they will need their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran to put their egos aside and work together.

“American Vandal” ran for two seasons on Netflix.

The first season, which aired in September 2017, focused on an investigation into who drew penises on 27 cars in the parking lot at a Southern California high school. Jimmy Tatro (“Home Economics”) played Dylan Maxwell, who was accused of spray painting the genitalia at the beginning of the series. The second season relocated to an elite private high school in Washington,...

The creators of American Vandal have lined up their next series.

Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault have scored a series order for Players, a comedy set in the world of esports, at ViacomCBS’ streaming platform Paramount+. Like American Vandal, the new series will be filmed in documentary style, and it will follow a fictional League of Legends team trying to win a championship.

CBS Studios and Funny or Die, which teamed on American Vandal, will produce Players as well. League of Legends maker Riot Games is also involved.

Players will focus on a LoL team that’s looking to win its first championship after years of close calls and heartaches....

The creators of American Vandal have lined up their next series.

Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault have scored a series order for Players, a comedy set in the world of esports, at ViacomCBS’ streaming platform Paramount+. Like American Vandal, the new series will be filmed in documentary style, and it will follow a fictional League of Legends team trying to win a championship.

CBS Studios and Funny or Die, which teamed on American Vandal, will produce Players as well. League of Legends maker Riot Games is also involved.

Players will focus on a LoL team that’s looking to win its first championship after years of close calls and heartaches....

Like his films, Jim Cummings is hard to classify. He’s a true multi-hyphenate, having worked pretty much every job one can on a film set. For his acclaimed 2018 feature “Thunder Road,” he not only served as writer, director and star, but editor and composer as well. That film, which was funded partially by a Kickstarter campaign, went on to win best narrative feature at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival and had several distribution offers before he opted to self-release the movie. That bold choice, and the quality of his work, has caused Cummings to become somewhat of a guru of indie filmmaking, particularly on social media where he is known for giving both encouragement and no-nonsense advice to fellow artists.

While he isn’t a household name yet, Cummings might be something better — a creator who can make unique films with his distinctive voice by his own rules and not...

In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix released trailers for its upcoming series “Shadow and Bone,” and “Who Killed Sara?,” and ABC released an extended first look at Topher Grace’s upcoming sitcom “Home Economics.”

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HBO announced that “Q: Into the Storm,” a six-part docuseries that explores the origins of QAnon, will debut with two back-to-back episodes on March 21 at 9 p.m. Episodes will also be available to stream on HBO Max. The series will examine the evolution of QAnon in real-time and reveal how the anonymous figure known only as “Q” uses conspiracy theories and information warfare to game the internet, hijack politics, and manipulate people’s thinking. Additionally, “Q: Into the Storm” will examine QAnon’s influence on American culture and question the consequences of unfettered free speech permeating the darkest corners of the internet. HBO did not release information on from whom the docuseries comes, but...

The Great White North invasion continues as CBS All Access has ordered a comedic documentary series set in Ontario, Canada.

For Heaven’s Sake was created by and stars Mike Mildon and Jackson Rowe, two documentary filmmakers behind Trophy Husbands and they will exec produce alongside American Vandal duo Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault.

The series, produced in partnership with Schitt’s Creek broadcaster CBC, is produced by Muse Entertainment, the Canadian production company behind Coroner, in association with Funny Or Die and CBS Television Studios. Funny Or Die’s Joe Farrell will exec produce with Muse Entertainment’s Jonas Prupas and Courtney Dobbins and the series will be directed by Tim Johnson (Virginia 12th).

For Heaven’s Sake mixes the comedy and documentary formats and follows the search for Harold Heaven, who mysteriously disappeared from his remote cabin in Ontario, Canada, in the winter of 1934. While local police searched...

CBS All Access has given out a series order to the comedic documentary series “For Heaven’s Sake.”

Created by and starring Mike Mildon and Jackson Rowe, the series will follow the search for Harold Heaven, who mysteriously disappeared from his remote cabin in Ontario, Canada, in the winter of 1934. While local police searched the nearby woods and dredged the adjacent lake, Harold was never found nor heard from again. The case was unceremoniously closed as a likely suicide. 85 years later, his great-great-nephew, Mike, attempts to solve the case, with the help of his extended family and true-crime-obsessed best friend, Jackson.

Mildon and Rowe will also executive produce alongside Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault from “American Vandal,” Joe Farrell of Funny Or Die, and Jonas Prupas and Courtney Dobbins of Muse Entertainment.

“We were struck by how fascinating and complex this very real 80-year-old cold case is. And by how...

The Emmy Awards ballot for Best Comedy Directing lists 185 episodes (from 104 series), so there will seven nominees under the new rules. The six nominees last year were:

“Barry” season 2: “The Audition” (Alec Berg) “Barry” season 2: “ronny/lily” (Bill Hader) “The Big Bang Theory” season 12: “The Stockholm Syndrome” (Mark Cendrowski) Winner — “Fleabag” season 1: “Episode 1” (Harry Bradbeer) “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” season 2: “All Alone” (Amy Sherman-Palladino) “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” season 2: “We’re Going to the Catskills!” (Daniel Palladino)

Only “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” is back in contention. It won two years ago over “Silicon Valley,” which was nominated for its fifth (consecutive) season. After an extended hiatus that made it ineligible last year, “Silicon Valley” contends now for its sixth and final season. Nominated for “Barry” last year and for directing “Silicon Valley” in 2016, Alec Berg contends for the “Silicon Valley” series finale. Six series...

Netflix’s latest true crime documentary anthology series “Trial by Media” opens with a chapter on a story from the periphery of ’90s daytime TV that may not be a collective household memory. Still, the story of the murder of Scott Amedure makes for an illustrative first chapter in the way that legal proceedings and press coverage have become intertwined in the national consciousness.

It tells the story behind an unaired episode of “The Jenny Jones Show,” a daytime TV installment that saw Amedure profess his feelings for Jonathan Schmitz in front of a live studio audience. Just days after the taping, Schmitz approached Amedure and shot him. Charged with murder, the heated public debate over Schmitz’s guilt or innocence centered on whether or not his feelings of embarrassment were justification for his actions.

The subsequent trials — both in the Schmitz murder case and the Amedure family’s lawsuit...

It could have been a bittersweet affair for the creative team behind Netflix’s Peabody Award-winning “American Vandal.” But at Thursday night’s Emmys Fyc screening and panel for the faux-documentary series’ second season gave no acknowledgement of the show’s cancelation, much less its potential for revival.

However, speaking to IndieWire after the event, executive producer and showrunner Dan Lagana said that the future of the show had “yet to be determined.”

“The honest truth about the future is, we don’t know,” added co-creator and executive producer Dan Perrault. “But, we don’t look at it as a sad, final season; It’s not. Regardless of the future, each season is kind of self contained.”

There was no apparent animosity towards Netflix — understandably, as it still served as the party’s host — for its decision to part ways with the show, nor clear insight into what might come next.

Network: Netflix.

Episodes: 16 (half-hour).

Seasons: Two.

TV show dates: September 15, 2017 — October 26, 2018.

Series status: Cancelled.

Performers include: Tyler Alvarez, Griffin Gluck, Jimmy Tatro, Gabriela Fresquez, W. Thomas Henry, Camille Hyde, Carla Jeffery, Eduardo Franco, Jessica Juarez, Carlos Luna, Lou Wilson, Camille Ramsey, Calum Worthy, Sean Carrigan, Lukas Gage, G. Hannelius, Karly Rothenberg, Saxon Sharbino, Aylin Bayramoglu, Myles Brewer, Cody Wai-Ho Lee, Dendrie Taylor, Liam C. Johnson, and Matt Miller.

TV show description:

A scripted satire of true crime documentaries, the American Vandal TV show comes from co-creators Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, with showrunner Dan Lagana. The Hanover High School community is rocked by scandal, when a graffiti artist spray paints phallic symbols on 27 cars in the employee parking lot.

“American Vandal” won’t be back for a Season 3 on Netflix, but all hope is not lost quite yet.

On Friday, Variety reported that the award-winning faux documentary series would not be returning to the platform for a third season, but that “an individual with knowledge of the situation said that other platforms have expressed interest in continuing the series.”

The series, which garnered a Peabody Award, an Emmy nomination, and a coveted spot on the IndieWire Best TV Shows of 2017 list, was a scripted anthology series that used the template of true-crime documentaries. The first season, which chronicled a piece of anatomy-related vandalism at an Oceanside, California high school, became a surprise hit among both critics and audiences. It was even touted last year by Netflix as the service’s “most binged” series.

The cancellation news comes just weeks after the show debuted Season 2, which documented a different euphemistic-heavy crime,...

After hosting two scandalous seasons of true-crime satire, Netflix has announced that they've closed the book on any additional seasons of American Vandal, the mockumentary comedy series from creators Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda. However, all is not lost for those of you who delight in a hard-boiled deconstruction of dick-happy graffiti artists as well as the notorious…...

There will not be a third season of “American Vandal,” as Netflix has decided to cancel the mockumentary series after two seasons.

“‘American Vandal’ will not return for a third season,” said Netflix in a statement just a month after the show’s second debuted. “We’re very grateful to the creators, writers, cast and crew for bringing their innovative comedy to Netflix, and to the fans and critics who embraced its unique and unconventional humor.”

“American Vandal” may not be done, however, as producers at CBS TV Studios have already received calls about a potential third season on another platform, an insider tells TheWrap.

Also Read: 'American Vandal' Star Tyler Alvarez Made a Documentary Before His Audition to Play a Documentarian (Video)

The first season, which aired in September 2017, focused on an investigation at a Southern California high school into who drew dicks on 27 cars in the parking lot.

Netflix has opted not to renew mockumentary comedy series American Vandal for a third season. I hear producing studio CBS TV Studios is fielding incoming interest in the Funny Or Die show from other potential buyers.

“American Vandal will not return for a third season,” Netflix said in a statement. “We’re very grateful to the creators, writers, cast and crew for bringing their innovative comedy to Netflix, and to the fans and critics who embraced its unique and unconventional humor.”

True-crime satire American Vandal, CBS TV Studios’ first series for an outside streaming service, had flown under the radar with a modest budget and cast of largely unknown young actors in its first season to become a top binge-watched show for Netflix and earn an Emmy nomination and a Peabody Award.

In its first season, American Vandal dug into who was behind the spray-painted phalluses adorning the cars of...