
Melissa McCarthy has been named host of NBC’s unscripted series Little Big Shots, replacing Steve Harvey as emcee of the talent competition for kids. Harvey hosted the previous three seasons of the show, which hails from Warner Horizon Television and Ellen DeGeneres’ A Very Good Production banner. Little Big Shots last aired on NBC in July 2018. NBC […]

Nobodies, the comedy series produced by Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone, will shift to Paramount Network next year for its second season. The single-camera comedy debuted on TV Land earlier this year. Viacom has overhauled its programming strategy to focus most of its scripted original series on Paramount Network, which debuts in January as a […]

New Line has landed the spec project Super-Intelligence, from Steve Mallory who co-wrote The Boss, with Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone on board to produce The film is another high-concept action, unconventional buddy comedy set against the phenomena of technological singularity. Mallory, McCarthy and Falcone have a history of working together, most recently teaming on […]

Saturday Night Live continued its ratings winning streak this week, with the most recent episode delivering the most-watched May telecast of the series in the past seven years. This week’s episode, which featured host Melissa McCarthy’s return as White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, averaged a 2.7 rating in adults 18-49 and 10.3 million viewers, […]

“Modern Family” star Julie Bowen has joined New Line’s “Life of the Party” and will portray the enemy of Melissa McCarthy’s lead character. New Line has given “Life of the Party” a prime summer release date of May 11, 2018. McCarthy will star while her husband Ben Falcone directs the film. As with “The Boss,” […]

TV Land has given a 12-episode series order to Nobodies, a single-camera comedy pilot executive produced by Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone through their production banner On The Day. Starring, executive produced and written by Groundlings alums Hugh Davidson, Larry Dorf and Rachel Ramras (Mike Tyson Mysteries), Nobodies revolves around the three as they try […]

Sookie will be back with the rest of the gang in Stars Hollow. In an announcement aired on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” Friday, guest Melissa McCarthy was breathless with the news. “It is really exciting,” she told the audience. “There has been something that I have been asked about so, so many times and it […]

Melissa McCarthy and her husband Ben Falcone have landed a pilot deal with TV Land for such a show about her former Groundlings friends, which they’re also slated to executive produce. The show will be written and EP’d by Hugh Davidson, Larry Dorf and Rachel Ramras. McCarthy will appear in the pilot. “We are continuing […]

After the successful opening of his The Heat, Paul Feig has plans for a female-driven spy comedy titled Susan Cooper. Today, The Wrap reports that Melissa McCarthy is close to taking on the lead role. Feig wrote the script, which is said not to be a spoof, with plans to produce through his first look […]

Melissa McCarthy is set to be offered a leading role in the upcoming comedy drama St. Vincent de Van Nuys, Deadline reports. She would join Bill Murray in the comedy drama. Set up through 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment, St. Vincent de Van Nuys will be directed by Ted Melfi, working from his own […]