New comedy series “Barry” starring Bill Hader heading to HBO
The comedy series Barry, starring Bill Hader, will begin production on its eight-episode season in Los Angeles this spring. Hader (Saturday Night Live) and Alec Berg (HBO’s Silicon Valley) serve as co-creators, executive producers and writers on the show, which is slated for 2018 debut on the network. “From Saturday Night Live and Documentary Now! […]
This week on TV: “The Standups” return and “Barry” is a hit
This Tuesday, Netflix returns returning for a new season of its half-hour comedy series, The Standups a series that is exactly as we just described it to you – comedians performing half-hour spots. The slight difference is that the comics for The Standups are headlining acts that already have at least one hour special or […]
Bill Hader & Duffy Boudreau To Develop New HBO Pilot
Courtesy of HBO. Bill Hader and Duffy Boudreau were childhood best friends, who managed to work together on some pretty high profile projects. The pair wrote multiple episodes of Documentary Now together, and later collaborated on Barry together. Now, they’re teaming up again for a new project. What we know so far about Bill Hader’s […]
The 2023 Emmy Awards Nominations: All Your Comedy Favorites
This morning, the TV Academy announced the annual Emmy Award nominations, celebrating your TV favorites in 2022 and 2023. As usual, there were some surprises with the nominations. The biggest surprise came from Jury Duty. Everyone knew Barry, Ted Lasso, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Only Murders in the Building, The Bear, and Abbott Elementary would be […]
Bill Hader hunts to find the blend of drama and comedy for “Barry”
Photo: HBO Bill Hader is everywhere and seemingly capable of doing everything. Not only is he one of the most versatile performers to come out of Saturday Night Live, but also one of the most relatable. He has this neighborly quality where he just seems like the guy who you see wandering the aisles of […]
Watch the season 2 trailer for HBO’s “Barry”
Bill Hader is Barry, the title character of HBO’s breakout dark comedy Barry. A hitman trying to leave that world behind him and pursue his dream of acting in Hollywood. Season 2 seems to pick up shortly after the events of Season 1 which forced Barry to kill Detective Moss (Paula Newsome) in order to […]
Chris Redd and Pete Davidson turn the Bill Hader love to 11 in this week’s “Saturday Night Live” promos
Bill Hader is returning to host Saturday Night Live this weekend. He’s out there making the press rounds in support of his new HBO series Barry, which premieres at the end of the month. As all of us SNL-heads know, Hader was easily one of the greatest cast members the show has ever produced in […]
Bill Hader’s new dark comedy “Barry” set to premiere on HBO this March
HBO just announced a premiere date for Bill Hader’s new dark comedy Barry and they’re pairing it up with the return of the fan favorite, Silicon Valley. Barry stars Hader as a low-rent hitman from the Midwest who is not feeling too great about his life. After begrudging travelling to Los Angells for a job, […]
Take a gander at Bill Hader’s new HBO series, “Barry”
Bill Hader has a new series coming to HBO called Barry. While the trailer doesn’t offer up much background for us, the official description of the show reads as Barry being a “seasoned assassin who discovers a new passion for acting while on assignment in Los Angeles.” Add to that Henry Winkler, Stephen Root, Sarah […]