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July 7, 2015 Prachi Gupta

Committed Orange Is the New Black superfan Samantha Gardella, a 19-year-old film student, got the attention of the show’s cast and crew when she released a video of an unauthorized visit to the show’s exterior set in Orangeburg, New York. Days after the show’s third season dropped on Netflix, it was reported that the crew […]

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May 27, 2015 Liam Mathews

Chris Gethard is the funniest man in New York. This is of course debatable, since Louis C.K. also lives in New York, but your odds of going to UCB and seeing Louie on any given night are much lower than seeing Gethard. Chris Gethard is a street-level New York guy who built his career on […]

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April 14, 2015 Aymann Ismail

On Tuesday, Cinemax show The Knick was filming in Clinton Hill on DeKalb Avenue. The series, directed by Steven Soderbergh, is set in the early 1900s and is a fictional depiction of the horrific conditions common to NYC’s Knickerbocker Hospital. Compared to previous sets in the LES and South Street Seaport, the shoot in Brooklyn […]

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January 30, 2015 Christopher Inoa

Snapchat is coming out with a webseries. The Hollywood Reporter has announced that the daughters of film director Steven Spielberg and producer John Goldwyn will write and star in a show called — wait for it — Literally Can’t Even. It will be a comedic take on the lives writing partners Sasha Spielberg (coming off […]

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January 23, 2015 Prachi Gupta

If you found the sardonic anthropomorphized animals in Bojack Horseman hilarious, and Adult Swim’s comedic experiments continuously excite you, then you’ll probably love Animals — an absurdist animated series about NYC starring talking horses, rats, and pigeons. There’s just one problem: it still needs a network. The LA Times has devoted a fairly lengthy article […]

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December 19, 2014 Prachi Gupta

After its whirlwind courtship with Comedy Central ended with heartache, The Chris Gethard Show is getting all romantical with another cable network. The show, self-described as “the most bizarre and often saddest talk show in New York City,” currently broadcasts from Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s small Hell’s Kitchen studio on Wednesday nights with an internet livestream. […]

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December 18, 2014 Prachi Gupta

When The Colbert Report first aired nine years ago, it seemed like you had all the time in the world to make it out to the studio and watch your favorite faux Republican stick it to Papa Bear Bill O’Reilly. But the end has come: Thursday December 18 is Stephen Colbert’s last show, and if […]

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December 12, 2014 Rhett Jones

Sega has announced its plans to begin turning its games into full fledged feature films, TV shows and digital series through it’s production arm Stories International. Titles that have been mentioned for the motion picture treatment include Golden Axe, Altered Beast, Virtua Fighter and Crazy Taxi. While Altered Beast could be cool, Virtua Fighter just reminds us how bad Street […]

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December 3, 2014 Prachi Gupta

Are you an economics student having trouble understanding some of the concepts? Or perhaps you’re a teacher searching for a new way to engage your students? Prepare by watching Seinfeld. The aptly named online archive project Yadayadayada Econ has found wisdom in the “show about nothing,” extracting clips from the show that illustrate economic concepts […]

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October 1, 2014 Marina Galperina

The newest remix video by Eclectic Method features Tina Belcher from Bob’s Burgers. She is the best because she isn’t an unrelatable overachiever with perfectionist neuroses (ahem, Lisa Simpson, ahem) or simply exists to justify cold-hearted malice aimed at awkward teenage girls (ahem, Meg Griffin, ahem). She writes erotic fiction about zombies. She likes butts. She makes horrible sounds. Here they are, […]

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