HBO and Anschutz Entertainment Group have partnered to create the Comedy Festival, to be held Nov. 17-20 in Las Vegas. TBS will serve as title sponsor of the inaugural, consumer-oriented event ...

Gervais’ character, Andy Millman, is a pudgy, fortysomething Everyman who’s given up an unnamed but well-paying day job to become a film actor. Alas, his career is going nowhere, thanks to his ...

HBO has landed Ricky Gervais’ first post-“Office” series project. Paybox has pacted with the BBC to produce “Extras,” a comedy from Gervais and “The Office” co-creator Stephen Merchant.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- HBO will film a documentary about the history of standup comedy, Daily Variety said Wednesday. The paper said the project got a boost after the funeral last year of ...

By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter Valerie Cherish is back on TV — again — in the first full trailer for the HBO comedy series The Comeback. Canceled after a single season in 2005 ...