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NBC’s newest sitcom, St. Denis Medical, is still about a week away from its two-episode premiere, but if you’ve been watching literally any programming on the network, you’ve already been barraged with commercials that may have put you in the mood for a comedy that revolves around sick people and the professionals who look after them. While you kill time in the waiting room, here’s a selection of the best medical sitcoms you can stream instead. Doing so in a paper gown is optional.

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Grey’s Anatomy was one of TV’s buzziest dramas when ex-Daily Show correspondent Rob Corddry created Childrens Hospital, a broad spoof of shows in which sexy young doctors work out their interpersonal issues while barely paying attention to their patients. Corddry stars as Dr. Blake Downs, who is clearly aiming for a Patch Adams-esque...

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A New Year is just around the corner, and Netflix’s upcoming roster of Original titles includes over 100 returning shows that will be back for new seasons. Some Netflix shows remain unclear on whether they’ll ever return, and in the case of the below, we suspect they’ve all been quietly canceled.

For these shows, we refer to them as ghost canceled. This means they’ve been effectively canceled behind the scenes but haven’t been publicly announced. These announcements are either because Netflix won’t confirm or nobody behind the show publicly announced the cancelation.

As always, cancelations are due to a number of reasons. With a few of these, it’ll be purely down to the length of time since the last season premiered, and then you’ve got the usual issues of performance.

You can find our expanded full list of shows...

Exclusive: Rob Corddry is set as a lead opposite Terry Crews and Ryan Michelle Bathé in JumpStart, CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot based on Robb Armstrong’s long-running comic strip, from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, Wendi Trilling’s TrillTV and CBS Studios. He rounds out the series regular cast of the pilot, which Glynn Turman has joined as a guest star in a recurring role.

JumpStart, whose pilot was written by Wayne Conley and will be directed by Phill Lewis, is set in Philadelphia and follows Joseph L. Cobb (Crews), a cop, his wife Marcy (Bathé), a nurse, and Joe’s partner Crunchy (Corddry).

In addition to being Joe’s police partner, Crunchy is his best friend. They’re so inseparable the Cobb children call him “ Uncle Crunchy”. Marcy calls him Joe’s “ hubby”. Crunchy was “woke” long before the word was a thing. He knows when to be serious...

Exclusive: Gunpowder & Sky, the production company behind Showtime’s Sheryl and Discovery+’s Werner Herzog-narrated Last Exit: Space, is staffing up.

The company, founded by Van Toffler and Floris Bauer, has hired Catti Alvarez as VP, Unscripted Development and Natalie Gergely as VP, Scripted Development.

Alvarez will report to Art Lyons, SVP of Unscripted Development, with Gergely reporting to CEO Toffler.

Alvarez was previously at Fly on the Wall Entertainment, most recently as Director of Development, where she worked on shows such as CBS’ Million Dollar Mile, Fox’s Crime Scene Kitchen, Freevee’s Hollywood Houselift with Jeff Lewis and several YouTube projects including A Day in the Live. She also previously worked at Spike TV and CAA.

Gergely previously served as the Director of Development for Abominable Pictures, which produced Netflix’s U.S. remake of Murderville, Medical Police, Wet Hot American Summer and Childrens Hospital. Before Abominable,...

Exclusive: David Wain, the man behind the comedy classic Wet Hot American Summer, has signed with Entertainment 360.

Wain has had himself quite the career with hit comedies including Role Models and Wanderlust, but he’s best known for Wet Hot American Summer. The film has gained a loyal following since it first came out in 2001, with Netflix taking notice and moving forward with the Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp limited series in 2015, with Wain directing all eight episodes and writing several. The streamer was so happy with the first series that it greenlighted Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later in 2017.

On top of that, he’s also been busy with the TV series Childrens Hospital as well Medical Police. Wain is currently developing several projects including one with Elizabeth Banks and another with Zoë Kravitz.

He is also repped by WME.

The “Goosebumps” series at Disney+ has cast Rob Huebel in a recurring guest star role, Variety has learned exclusively.

The series, which is based on R.L. Stine’s bestselling book series and is described as a teen horror comedy, is said to follow “a group of five high schoolers who unleash supernatural forces upon their town and must all work together — thanks to and in spite of their friendships, rivalries and pasts with each other — in order to save it, learning much about their own parents’ teenage secrets in the process.”

Huebel joins previously announced cast members Ana Yi Puig, Miles McKenna, Will Price, Justin Long, Zack Morris, Isa Briones, and Rachael Harris. He will appear as Colin, father of Margot (Briones). The character is described as “a well-intentioned high school guidance counselor who is about to discover the world is a lot bigger and scarier than he ever imagined.

This is a pretty meta casting — Kevin Can Wait alum Erinn Hayes is set to guest star on the upcoming second and final season of AMC’s Kevin Can F**k Himself. Hayes will appear in an as-yet undisclosed role alongside series stars Annie Murphy, Mary Hollis Inboden, Eric Petersen and Alex Bonifer.

Hayes played James’ wife Donna on the first season of Kevin James’ CBS comedy series Kevin Can Wait. She was let go at the end of the season and replaced by James’ former King of Queens co-star Leah Remini. Hayes’ exit was met with backlash by fans, there was a Season 2 ratings decline for Kevin Can Wait, which was eventually canceled.

There has been speculation that Kevin Can F**k Himself was actually a takeoff on James’ sitcom Kevin Can Wait (the male leads are both named Kevin), although neither AMC nor Kevin Can F**k Himself...

AMC announced that Erinn Hayes is set as a guest star for Season 2 of “Kevin Can F**k Himself.” Character details remain under wraps.

Hayes is best known for starring as Dr. Lola Spratt in “Chidrens Hospital,” the TheWB.com and later Adult Swim sitcom that parodies medical dramas such as “Grey’s Anatomy” and “General Hospital.” She also plays Lola in “Medical Police,” Netflix’s spinoff of the series.

But another of Hayes’ prominent roles was playing Donna Gable, Kevin Gable’s (Kevin James) wife in the CBS sitcom “Kevin Can Wait.” In 2017, Hayes’s character was killed off to make room for Leah Remini to become a series regular as Vanessa Cellucci.

“The character will have passed away and we will be moving forward in time catching up at a later date,” said CBS programming boss Thom Sherman at TCA press tour when explaining why Hayes had not been cast in Season 2 of “Kevin Can Wait.

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Disney Plus has ordered a new series about the beloved Muppets musical group The Electric Mayhem Band, Variety has learned.

The series, titled “The Muppets Mayhem” will follow the the band as they try to record their first ever album. Lilly Singh will star as Nora, the human junior A&r executive tasked with managing The Electric Mayhem band. The band consists of Dr. Teeth on vocals and keyboards, Animal on drums, Floyd Pepper on vocals and bass, Janice on vocals and lead guitar, Zoot on saxophone, and Lips on trumpet.

“The Goldbergs” creator Adam F. Goldberg developed the series along with Bill Barretta and Jeff Yorkes based on characters created by Jim Henson. Goldberg and Barretta also executive produce, with Yorkes co-executive producing. Michael Bostick and Kris Eber also executive produce along with David Lightbody of The Muppets Studio and Leigh Slaughter. ABC Signature and The Muppets Studio will produce.

Filmmakers and stars Elizabeth Banks and David Wain of “Wet Hot American Summer” are reuniting for a new movie musical at Amazon Studios.

Wain is directing the project, titled “Where the Fore Are We?”, and will produce with Banks and partner Max Handelman via their Brownstone Productions. Wain wrote the script with Zach Reino and Jess McKenna. Alison Small is executive producing.

After a crash landing leaves the passengers and crew of a commercial flight stranded for three months, the film follows members of this makeshift community who begin to put together a production of a Shakespearean play to keep themselves occupied, despite their captain trying to focus them on getting rescued.

Banks and Handelman are currently engaged in a first-look film deal at Universal, and count a slate that includes multiple film, television and digital collaborations across various networks and studios. Partners in include Universal, Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, Fox,...

Emily Heller has signed an overall deal with CBS Studios, Variety has learned exclusively.

Under the deal, Heller will focus on developing comedy projects. This will come naturally to Heller, who has racked up an impressive resume in the comedy world in recent years.

She has worked as a writer and producer on a number of popular shows, including the hit HBO dark comedy “Barry.” The show has won six Emmy Awards to date, with Heller having received multiple nominations for her contributions behind the camera. She has received Writers’ Guild, Golden Globe, and Producers’ Guild Award nominations for the series as well.

Her other TV writing credits include shows such as “Medical Police,” “Search Party,” “People of Earth,” and “Crowded.” As an actress, she has been on shows like “Maron,” “Inside Amy Schumer,” “You’re the Worst,” “Grace and Frankie,” “Ground Floor,” and the animated series “BoJack Horseman.”

Heller is...

HBO Max is rounding out the cast to Mindy Kaling’s The Sex Lives of College Girls. Sherri Shepherd (Mr. Iglesias), Maya Rose (American Horror Story), Rob Huebel (Medical Police), Nicole Sullivan (MADtv), Conor Donnally (Hooked), Sierra Katow (Last Comic Standing) Mekki Leeper (Control Room) and James Morosini (American Horror Story) are set for recurring roles in the comedy series.

They join Pauline Chalamet, Amrit Kaur, Reneé Rapp, and Alyah Chanelle Scott who star as roommates and students at the prestigious New England Essex College. Series regular cast also includes Midori Francis, Gavin Leatherwood, Christopher Meyer, Ilia Isorelýs Paulino, Lauren “Lolo” Spencer and Renika Williams.

Kaling and showrunner Justin Noble co-wrote the first episode and executive produce with Howard Klein. The series is produced by Kaling International in association with Warner Bros. Television.

Actress and comedienne Shepherd is an Emmy-winning former co-host of ABC’s The View. Shepherd co-stars in...

Michael Cera will star opposite Amy Schumer in the upcoming Hulu comedy series “Life & Beth.”

Formerly known as “Love, Beth,” the show received a 10-episode order in July 2019 as part of a first-look deal Schumer signed with Hulu. She will serve as the writer, director, executive producer, and star of the series.

In the show, Beth’s (Schumer) life looks pretty great on paper. Impressive to everyone she grew up with, she makes a good living as a wine distributor. She’s in a long term relationship with an attractive, successful guy and lives in Manhattan. When a sudden incident forces Beth to engage with her past, her life changes forever. Through flashbacks to her teen self, Beth starts to learn how she became who she is and who she wants to become.

Cera will play the role of John, a farmer and chef who is always honest and to the point.

Exclusive: The Julia Hart-directed Disney feature sequel to Stargirl continues to expand its cast with comedian Al Madrigal, Sarayu Blue, Chris Williams and Nija Okoro joining.

Stargirl 2 follows Grace VanderWaal’s title protagonist as she journeys out of Mica into a bigger world of music, dreams and possibility. The script is based on the original character from Jerry Spinelli’s bestselling book. VanderWaal will write and perform new original music for the sequel. Hart co-wrote with her husband Jordan Horowitz.

The four new actors join a cast that includes Uma Thurman, Judy Greer (Stargirl’s mom), Judd Hirsch (Stargirl’s neighbor Mr. Mitchell), Elijah Richardson (Stargirl’s beau Evan) and Tyrel Jackson Williams.

Madrigal will play Iggy, the Mc at a local music club. Blue will play Alex, an up-and-coming film producer. Williams and Okoro will play George and Daphne,...

Freestyle Digital Media has announced the cable, satellite and Digital HD release of Witness Infection, from filmmaking team Carlos Alazraqui and Jill-Michele Melean and director Andy Palmer. Witness Infection will be available to rent and own on North American digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms and DVD on March 30, 2021 through Freestyle Digital Media. Here’s the trailer:

Winning Best Feature at the Horror Hound Film Festival and Best Director at the Frostbite International Film Festival, and showing at several others including Portland Horror Film Festival, Ha Comedy Arts Festival and more, Witness Infection is being lauded as “a wild ride of raucous fun” (Horror Buzz). The feature film by Andy Palmer has been entertaining audiences at film festivals, gathering up its very own cult following even before its wide release. This stomach-turning comedic horror/ mob movie mash-up is now poised for a March 30, 2021 release. Witness Infection will be available...

Patti LuPone and Erinn Hayes have signed on to star in the HBO Max comedy pilot “Ok Boomer,” Variety has learned.

In the show, a self-centered boomer (LuPone) shows up at her estranged daughter’s (Hayes) house hoping to live off the family’s money, but forms an unexpected bond with her progressive granddaughter who’s quick to challenge her on their differing views, of which there are plenty.

LuPone’s character, Barbara, is described as a comically outrageous, wildly impulsive, sarcastically witty individual and mother. Hayes’ character, Sarah, is a hard-working woman. A former Public Defender who’s recently become a judge, Sarah is thrown off her game when her estranged mother Barbara shows up unexpectedly.

Todd Linden created the show and serves as co-executive producer. Vanessa McCarthy will serve as showrunner and executive producer. The late Jamie Tarses will still be credited as an executive producer via Fanfare,...

Patti LuPone and Erinn Hayes have been tapped as the adult leads in Ok Boomer, a multi-camera comedy pilot from creator Todd Linden, the late Jamie Tarses’ Fanfare and Sony Pictures TV where the company continues to be based.

Written by Linden and to be directed by Victor Gonzalez, Ok Boomer centers on Barbara (LuPone), a self-centered boomer who shows up at her estranged daughter Sarah’s (Hayes) house hoping to live off the family’s money, but forms an unexpected bond with her progressive granddaughter who’s quick to challenge her on their differing views — of which there are plenty.

The project’s executive producers includes Vanessa McCarthy, who serves as showrunner, and Tarses, who died last month at the age of 56. Linden and Fanfare’s McCrae Dunlap co-executive produce.

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Ok Boomer exemplifies what...

Coming to digital services at the end of March from Freestyle Digital Media, here's a look at the trailer for the zombie comedy Witness Infection:

"Witness Infection tells the story of two rival mob families who are transferred from the Witness Protection Program to the same city by mistake. Life has always been pretty protected for Carlo Serrelli. But his past is about to come back and bite him. Carlo’s father has kept him out of the deadly mob business by giving him a job at the family dog groomers, while his younger brother, Dominic, has always done the dirty work.

All that is coming to an end as Carlo’s father has to force him into an arranged marriage with the daughter of the rival Miola family boss. Carlo’s two best friends, Gina and Vince, vow to help him get out of this predicament, but they...

Exclusive: Sarayu Blue (I Feel Bad) has booked a recurring role opposite Paul Rudd in Apple limited series The Shrink Next Door, based on the hit podcast by Wondery and Bloomberg Media. The series hails from director Michael Showalter, writer Georgia Pritchett, Civic Center Media and MRC Television. Inspired by true events, The Shrink Next Door details the bizarre relationship between psychiatrist to the stars Dr. Isaac “Ike” Herschkopf (Rudd) and his longtime patient Martin “Marty” Markowitz (Ferrell). Blue will play Miriam, a patient of Ike’s. Kathryn Hahn and Casey Wilson also star. Blue recently recurred on Netflix comedy Medical Police. She previously starred on NBC comedy series I Feel Bad, was a series regular on the CW’s No Tomorrow and appeared in the feature Blockers, among other credits. Blue is repped by CAA and D2 Management.

Sebastian Roché (Fringe) is...

At this point, we’re almost legally obligated to start off TV roundups with some variation on this idea that there’s a lot of TV out there, but it really is impossible to keep up with everything. And calling attention to it doesn’t make it any less true!

So, given that TV time is reaching astronomical heights in 2020, how does one find something to watch, let alone focus on just the best of the best? That’s where we come in.

Keeping track of the dizzying amount of television we’ve reviewed so far in 2020 is a task in and of itself, so we’ve tried to make it as easy as possible. Below, we’ve gathered each of our 2020 TV reviews, each with a season number and the network/service where the new episodes first aired for U.S. audiences. Hopefully, this will help you decide what...

IMDb TV, Amazon’s premium free streaming service, has put in development Hialeah: Dade F*ckin County, a half-hour family comedy from writers Monique Alvarez and Jessica Lee Williamson and Amazon Studios.

Co-created and written by Alvarez and Williamson, Hialeah: Dade F*ckin County follows first generation Cuban-American, ChiChi Rodriguez, who makes a run from her failed marriage and lands back with her disapproving family in the Cuban mecca of Hialeah: a hard left from Miami, a world away from the lavish version of South Florida, and the last place on earth ChiChi ever wanted to be. She’s determined to reinvent herself in this singular neighborhood brimming with cafecito counters, Santería altars, and bench ads for ass implants. But first she must learn that, hay que resolver: you gotta work with what you’ve got.

Alvarez and Williamson executive produce alongside Danielle Claman Gelber, Teri Weinberg (Gentefied) and Clark Johnson (The Shield), who directs.

When TV academy voters sit down to fill out their 2020 Emmy nominations ballots, they have to consider a whopping 111 shows for Best Comedy Series; this is up by three contenders from last year. Luckily they don’t have to limit their choices to just 10 shows. The Emmys did away with that restriction in 2017. Now, the TV academy tells its members to “Vote for as many achievements in this category that you have seen and feel are worthy of a nomination.”

Don’t look for reigning Best Comedy Series winner “Fleabag” on the list below. This Brit hit signed off after only two seasons on Amazon Prime. Only three its six rivals in that race — “Barry,” “The Good Place,” 2018 winner “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Schitt’s Creek” — aired episodes during the eligibility period of June 1, 2019 to May 31, 2020. The other three nominees from last year are absent from this year’s ballot...

Rob Huebel may be an actor-comedian, but his role on HBO’s I Know This Much Is True — in which he plays Mark Ruffalo’s best friend Leo — is pretty serious. “It’s not funny at all,” he notes in the latest installment of “The First Time.” “It is so awesome and layered and complexed. It’s Mark Ruffalo. It’s all Mark Ruffalo.”

In the clip above, Huebel kicks off with discussing one of his first auditions — a Cheerios commercial — when a six-year-old child started crying, and then abruptly reprimanded himself.

In the wake of declarations by President Donald J. Trump to bring “law and order” to the country, television’s cops are donating to show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

With social media turning today into #BlackoutTuesday to amplify the voices of black people, TV actors who have played cops or detectives, including “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” actress Stephanie Beatriz and “Blue Bloods” actor Griffin Newman, are urging others to make large donations of their residuals and salaries to the Emergency Response Fund.

Both of their Tweets emphasize urge creatives to donate: “If you currently play a cop? If you make tens of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in residuals from playing a cop?” Beatriz and Newman each pledged over $10,000 to support various organizations.

This has spread to other people associated with cop and law enforcement series. “Law & Order: Svu” writer Celine Robinson gave $5,500. “Castle Rock...

Before the world changed and Americans were asked to stay at home to “flatten the curve” and prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, “Medical Police” co-creator Rob Corddry and star Rob Huebel shared some of their TV picks — both high- and low-brow — for Variety.

For the second episode of Variety’s “My Guilty Pleasure,” Corddry and Huebel sat down with senior editor Michael Schneider to reveal their (1) TV guilty pleasure; (2) the “deep cut” show you probably haven’t heard of but they recommend; and (3) their “show-mate” — in other words, the TV series neither of them could live without.

“Medical Police,” now streaming on Netflix, is the successor to beloved medical drama parody “Childrens Hospital.” This time, the show is inadvertently timely: it’s a medical cop spy drama set amid the spread of a potentially world-threatening virus.

Just like “Childrens Hospital,” “Medical Police” is filled with irreverent gags, and...

Exclusive: Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers), Ian Alexander (The Oa), Vivien Ngô (Queen Sugar), Elyse Dinh (Watchmen) and Megan Le (Medical Police) have joined the indie thriller Daughter from writer and director Corey Deshon.

Marking the feature film debut for Deshon, Daughter is described as dark and surrealistic and follows a young woman who is inducted into a bizarre family to live as their new surrogate daughter.

Daughter is a co-production between Deshon’s Thirteenth Floor Pictures and the recently launched Paris and La-based production company, OneWorld Entertainment (Owe). Deshon and Ngô also produce alongside Tracy Chitupatham, Lacy Lew Nguyen Wright and Jes Vu. Matt Bradley and Laurent Fumeron will serve as executive producers.

Deshon’s script By Any Other Name was an Academy Nicholl Fellowship Semi-Finalist. His script When the Desert Was Home was also a Semi-Finalist in the Austin Film Festival Script Competition.

In addition to the cult...

Oliver Hudson and Malin Akerman have been cast in two of the lead roles in the CBS comedy pilot “The Three of Us,” Variety has learned.

The multi-camera comedy follows adult siblings who are children of divorce who must circle the wagons when their sister’s husband unexpectedly announces he wants to call it quits on their marriage.

Hudson will star as Will. Described as the worrier in the family, Will has always been protective of his little brother (not yet cast) and sister, Ally (Malin Akerman). Clever and perceptive, Will has a problematic need to help “father” everyone around him, so when his sister’s husband dumps her, his instincts kick in and moves her into his house.

Akerman’s Ally is said to be smart and resilient. She is the middle sibling to two brothers. She is thought of as the most “normal” and sensible one in the family,...

Oliver Hudson (Splitting Up Together) and Malin Akerman (Billions) are set to star in CBS comedy pilot, The Three of Us, from writer Frank Pines, Fulwell 73 and CBS TV Studios.

Written by Pines, The Three of Us follows adult siblings — two of them played by Hudson and Akerman — who are children of divorce and must circle the wagons when their sister’s husband unexpectedly announces he wants to call it quits on their marriage.

Hudson will play Will, the worrier in the family, He always has been protective of his little brother (Tbd) and sister, Ally (Akerman). Clever and perceptive, Will has a problematic need to help “father” everyone around him, so when his sister’s husband dumps her, his instincts kick in and he moves her into his house.

Akerman’s Ally is the smart and resilient middle sibling to two brothers. She is thought of as the most...

Lake Bell has signed a new pod deal with 20th Century Fox Television, the studio announced Monday.

Under the production overall pact, the “Bless This Mess” star’s Lake Bell Prod. will create new TV projects for the studio, which is a label of Disney Television Studios.

“Lake Bell is a creative force of nature whose incredible talent extends from acting and directing to writing and producing,” 20th Century Fox TV president of creative affairs Carolyn Cassidy said. “Her hard work and creativity have helped make ‘Bless This Mess’ into the hilarious, original and warm series we adore. We are thrilled to be able to continue to tell great stories with Lake for multiple platforms.”

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“I’m supremely keen to expand my partnership with Carolyn Cassidy, Craig Hunegs, Howard Kurtzman, and the...

Bless This Mess co-creator and star Lake Bell is expanding her relationship with the studio behind the hit ABC comedy series. Bell has signed a pod deal for her Lake Bell Prod. banner at 20th Century Fox TV, a label of Disney Television Studios.

“Lake Bell is a creative force of nature whose incredible talent extends from acting and directing to writing and producing,” said Carolyn Cassidy, President of Creative Affairs, 20th Century Fox TV. “Her hard work and creativity have helped make Bless This Mess into the hilarious, original and warm series we adore. We are thrilled to be able to continue to tell great stories with Lake for multiple platforms.”

Bell co-created and co-wrote the ABC single-camera comedy Bless This Mess along with Elizabeth Meriwether. She stars in the show, now in its second season, opposite Dax Shepard, serves as an executive producer on the series, and also...

Lake Bell has signed a new pod deal with 20th Century Fox Television, via her Lake Bell Prod. banner.

The deal comes almost a year after Bell’s “Bless This Mess” co-creator Liz Meriwether inked a four-year overall deal with the studio, which is a part of Disney Television Studios.

“Lake Bell is a creative force of nature whose incredible talent extends from acting and directing to writing and producing,” said 20th Century Fox TV president of creative affairs Carolyn Cassidy. “Her hard work and creativity have helped make ‘Bless This Mess’ into the hilarious, original and warm series we adore. We are thrilled to be able to continue to tell great stories with Lake for multiple platforms.”

Bell, who has been acting since the early 2000s and has had starring roles in shows such as “Childrens Hospital” and films like “No Strings Attached,” currently stars in and executive produces...

By: Dan Moore “I’m just a doctor. I don’t even know what kind of doctor I am. I think I’m a brain surgeon.” That’s how Rob Huebel described the character of Dr. Owen Maestro, a character he’s portrayed through seven seasons of Adult Swim’s “Children’s Hospital” and now on Netflix’s “Medical Police.” This quote pretty much sums up the whole vibe of Netflix’s new comedy/action/thriller “Medical Police”. It may sound outlandish, but it actually works. Especially with sidekick Lola Spratt (Erin Hayes). The characters find themselves in the most intense situations that should be taken seriously until they start bantering back and forth. Leaving the viewer to never really know what to expect, in a good way. The show was created by Rob Corddry, David Wain, Krister Johnson, and Jonathan Stern. The show was scored by composer Matt Novack.

Exclusive: Tzi Ma and Kheng Hua Tan have been cast as series regulars in the CW pilot Kung Fu, a reimagining with a female lead of the 1970s David Carradine-starring TV series. Ma and Kheng will play the parents of the protagonist in the project, from Christina M. Kim, Martin Gero, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Warner Bros. TV, where Kim, Gero and Berlanti Prods. are under deals.

Written by Kim, inspired by the original series created by Ed Spielman, in the new Kung Fu, a quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese-American woman to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to find her hometown overrun with crime and corruption, she uses her martial arts skills and Shaolin values to protect her community and bring criminals to justice…...

A new year is officially upon us, and you know what that means: There’s all-new TV dialogue to enjoy!

Several TV series debuted or returned from hiatus in the first full week of January, giving us the first opportunity of 2020 to recognize the small screen’s best sound bites.

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This time around, our Quotes of the Week gallery includes a card game gone wrong on Last Man Standing,...

If the closing of Childrens Hospital left a void in your heart, then — Clear! — its spinoff, Medical Police, is here to shock you back to life.

Created by Rob Corddry, Krister Johnson, Jonathan Stern and David Wain, the 10-episode season (now available on Netflix) follows Childrens Hospital doctors Lola Spratt (Erinn Hayes) and Owen Maestro (Rob Huebel) as they’re recruited by the government to stop a world-threatening virus and unearth a deep-seated conspiracy before it’s too late.

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Normally, describing a show by saying that it flings everything it can against the wall is not a compliment. With “Medical Police,” it’s some of the highest praise you can give it. The latest comedy series from the braintrust behind the long-running “Childrens Hospital,” this new venture takes a pair of that show’s mainstays and thrusts them into the world of high-stakes international infectiology.

When a deadly virus is unleashed in various major metropolitan areas around the world, doctors Lola Spratt (Erinn Hayes) and Owen Maestro (Rob Huebel) become the only two people with the knowledge, skills, and disregard for conventions of storytelling to be able to thwart this evil plan.

That’s about as tenuous a setup as a show like this really needs. When they’re not sticking to the CBS procedural-adjacent throughline of the series, “Medical Police” has free license to indulge in as many...

Daniel Kurland Jan 10, 2020

We chat with Erinn Hayes and Rub Huebel, the stars of Netflix’s bonkers Childrens Hospital spin-off, Medical Police.

Adult Swim has been the home for many influential pieces of alternative comedy, but Childrens Hospital is a series that helped the fledgling network establish their brand. The Dadaist comedy helped bring live-action to the programming block as well as an enviable cast and crew of comedic talent.

Childrens Hospital was a jewel in Adult Swim’s line-up for the seven seasons that it ran. However, the series has decided to gloriously return in the form of a police procedural parody series on Netflix, Medical Police. Medical Police retains the absurdity of Childrens Hospital, but gives it a glossy action makeover and makes Drs. Owen Maestro (Rob Huebel) and Lola Spratt (Erinn Hayes) the series’ driving forces. The result is one of Netflix’s silliest series in ages...

Medical Police is the perfect comedy sequel that retains the madness of Childrens Hospital and embraces the craziness of spin-offs.

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This Medical Police review contains no spoilers.

“We’re American doctors.”

“And apparently also now cops.”

“It’s a big concept we’re still wrapping our heads around.”

We live in an age of reboots, remakes, legacy sequels, and a time where the price of nostalgia has never been higher. Medical Police, a Netflix spinoff to Adult Swim’s Childrens Hospital technically subscribes to that trend, but it’s more concerned with having fun and making you laugh than it is in reviving a dormant franchise. If you liked Childrens Hospital, then you’ll love Medical Police. This series may be the continuation of a cult comedy that perhaps wasn’t being asked for, but it’s still extremely worthwhile and just so much fun to have...

1. “BoJack Horseman” Season 6, Part II (available January 31)

Why Should I Watch? Offering an incomparable blend of laughing ’til you cry and weeping from deep, emotional distress, “BoJack Horseman” is wrapping up its potent, perfect series this month. After its eponymous star (voiced by Will Arnett) went through a successful stint at rehab in the first half of Season 6, the back half will test his newfound resolve as past mistakes come back to haunt the man-horse. Whatever’s in store from creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg and his excellent production team is bound to be intense, so strap in and take it slow. The very best aspect of splitting the final season in two is allowing us to savor the wide array of emotions “BoJack” so beautifully evokes.

Bonus Reason: Insiders tell me that the penultimate episode of “BoJack Horseman” is one of the season’s best, if not the best. Reviews are...

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With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

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Netflix has confirmed that 56 new original series, movies and specials will be debuting on the streaming service in January. Leading off the lineup are the final seasons of some of the biggest shows on Netflix, including the Emmy-winning animated series “BoJack Horseman,” the family favorite “Anne With an E” and the Ashton Kutcher comedy series “The Ranch.”

Among those shows launching their first seasons in the first month of the year are the Tyler Perry family drama “A Fall From Grace,” the sly satire “Medical Police” and the crime thriller “The Stranger.”

Also look for the sophomore edition of the British import “Sex Education,” season 3 of “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and season 6 of “Grace & Frankie” with real-life pals Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.

Below is the full schedule of everything that is coming and leaving Netflix in January 2020.

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What better way to celebrate the New Year than by settling into the couch with a Netflix marathon? Get nostalgic about the early ’00s with Hilary Duff in “A Cinderella Story,” or get inspired to cook with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams in “Julie & Julia.” Both titles are headed to the streaming service early next month.

A few classics are also coming to the site, including two “Lord of the Rings” pics, the complete “Kill Bill” saga and “American Beauty.”

New seasons of several highly anticipated Netflix originals will also hit the streamer like “Sex Education,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” “Grace and Frankie” and the second half of “BoJack Horseman’s” final season, dropping at the end of the month.

See the full list of titles below:

Jan. 1

Ghost Stories

Messiah

Nisman: Death of a Prosecutor

Spinning Out

The Circle

21

A Cinderella Story

American Beauty

Catch Me If You...

Erinn Hayes and Rob Huebel are here to save lives and kick butts, and they’re all out of lives to save. This wouldn’t make them very good doctors, admittedly, so it’s a good thing they have another profession: cops. Childrens Hospital alums Hayes and Huebel create and star in the new Netflix comedy Medical Police, a new spin-off of the beloved […]

The post ‘Medical Police’ Trailer: This New Netflix Comedy is About Doctors…Who Are Also Cops appeared first on /Film.

In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix released the launch date and teaser for “Leslie Jones: Time Machine” and HBO announced the premiere date for “The Plot Against America.”

Dates

“High Maintenance” will return to HBO for Season 4 on Feb. 7. Created by Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair, the show’s fourth season follows The Guy (Sinclair) back traversing the city on his bicycle, having said goodbye to last season’s Rv. With a new friend by his side, The Guy drops in on a variety of customers whose disparate lives, jobs, identities and circumstances reveal the human connection that we all seek. Returning guest stars this season include Crystal Monee Hall, Heléne Yorke, Ken Leung, Julianna Luna Vasquez, Avery Monsen, Rob Morgan, Max Jenkins, Chris Roberti, Becca Blackwell, Chris McKinney and Birgit Huppuch. Ira Glass and his team at “This American Life” will be featured in the upcoming season as new guest stars.

From the creators of “Children’s Hospital” (starring Rob Huebel and Erinn Hayes) comes the totally-not-a-spinoff “Medical Police” (also starring Rob Huebel and Erinn Hayes.)

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Now “Children’s Hospital” is niche, not watched by many, but beloved by a core audience. More importantly, it’s created an incredibly talented de facto comedy troupe.

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The trailer for Netflix’s new series “Medical Police” is out, and it stars Erinn Hayes and Rob Huebel as a couple of “cool, crime-fighting doctors.” At least that’s what Jason Schwartzman calls them in the trailer, which also features lots of gun-slinging and awkward moments. Watch the video above.

From the makers of “Childrens Hospital,” “Medical Police” follows two American physicians stationed at a pediatric hospital in São Paulo, Brazil who unwittingly discover a civilization-threatening virus. They’re soon recruited as secret government agents and find themselves in a race against time to find a cure, all the while uncovering a dark conspiracy at the center of the outbreak, according to Netflix.

Other cast members include Sarayu Blue, Rob Corddry, Malin Akerman, Ken Marino and Lake Bell. Schwartzman guest stars along with and Fred Melamed, Craig Robinson, and others. Co-creators Krister Johnson, Rob Corddry, Jonathan Stern and David Wain...

In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix releases a trailer for “You” Season 2 and Freeform drops new footage from Season 2 of “Good Trouble.”

First Looks

Netflix released a second season trailer for “You,“ starring Penn Badgley and premiering Dec. 26. Having relocated to Los Angeles, Season 2 finds Badgley’s Joe balancing being on the run from ex-girlfriend Candace (Ambyr Childers) and falling in love with, well, Love (Victoria Pedretti). James Scully (“Heathers”), Carmela Zumbado (“Need For Speed”), Jenna Ortega (“Jane The Virgin”) and Chris D’Elia (“The Good Doctor”) also star.

Netflix released the trailer for Kevin Hart‘s forthcoming docuseries “Kevin Hart: Don’t F**k This Up,“ premiering Dec. 27. In the six-part series, Hart provides a behind-the-scenes look into his life over the past year, including fallout from his Academy Award controversy; marriage; and growing career.

Netflix released first look images for its upcoming comedy series “Medical Police,“ premiering Jan.

Hulu is betting on Greta Thunberg, with a documentary about the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist set to debut on the streamer in 2020.

Per our sister site Deadline, the team behind Greta (working title) has been following Thunberg, who was recently named Time‘s Person of the Year, “from her early school strike in Stockholm all the way to parliaments and massive international protests.”

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They’re cops! They’re docs! And they’re spanning the globe in search of a viral moment. Netflix has set a January 10 global premiere date Medical Police, a genre-skipping comedy series starring Erinn Hayes and Rob Huebel. Check out the key art below and some first-look photos as well.

Hailing from the team behind Childrens Hospital, Medical Police triples as an action-packed thriller, a mystery-wrapped love story and, ultimately, a globetrotting comedy series. It follows two American physicians (Hayes and Huebel) stationed at a pediatric hospital in São Paulo, Brazil, who unwittingly discover a civilization-threatening virus. Soon they’re recruited as secret government agents and find themselves in a race against time to find a cure — all the while uncovering a dark conspiracy at the center of the outbreak.

Sarayu Blue, Rob Corddry, Malin Akerman, Ken Marino and Lake Bell also star, with Jason Schwartzman and Fred Melamed among the guest stars.