The Daily Jobard

Just yesterday, we reported that Kevin Urick—the prosecutor in the murder case covered by Sarah Koenig’s Serial podcast—had given an interview to The Intercept in which he denounced the way the show presented evidence and its suggestion that Adnan Syed might not be as guilty as the court system says he is. Urick also denied Koenig’s claims that it was […]

Not thrifty enough to make all of its announcements at once, HBO has revealed that Real Time With Bill Maher has been renewed for at least two more seasons. If this seems vaguely familiar, that could be because HBO did the exact same thing two years ago—suggesting that maybe the network should just renew Bill Maher’s show for more than […]

According to Showbiz 411, The Cosby Show’s Phylicia Rashad has joined Creed, the Rocky spinoff that we all agree is totally necessary. Rashad will be playing Apollo Creed’s widow, a woman who is integral to the Rocky mythos but—as far as we know—somehow escaped ever being referenced or seen in any of the other dozen or so Rocky movies. The […]

New Discovery Channel chief Rich Ross (no relation to Rick) has vowed to stop airing pseudoscientific bullshit on what is ostensibly an educational channel. Ross made this promise at the Television Critic’s Association press tour earlier today, telling the skeptical crowd, “I don’t think [fake documentaries are] right for Discovery Channel, and think it’s something that has run its course.” […]

It seems that the plan to give Craig Ferguson a syndicated half-hour talk show has fizzled out. After months of negotiations, Variety reports that Tribune Broadcasting has given up trying to launch the new show. It had envisioned the talk-meets-variety program as a pre-primetime “showcase for the offbeat humor” of Ferguson, one that would lead into nightly primetime TV programming. […]

Bob’s Burgers will remain one of the few certainties of Fox’s Sunday night lineup, as the network has picked up a sixth season to air along mainstays The Simpsons, Family Guy, and, presumably, Mulaney seasons two through 20. While it retuned to much higher ratings than it scored the previous year, the series has yet to break out the way […]

Finally, some concrete news as HBO has reportedly set the premiere date for Game Of Thrones‘ fifth season for Sunday, April 12, followed by the season premieres of both Veep and Silicon Valley that same night. That leaves just over three months of waiting until we find out what’s new with everyone but Hodor and friends, time that can be […]

Earlier this week, Russell Crowe declared that the disparity between the number of roles for men and women over the age of 40 in Hollywood mostly stems from, “the woman who at 40, 45, 48, still wants to play the ingenue, and can’t understand why she’s not being cast as the 21-year-old.” Unsurprisingly, Crowe’s female colleagues are now weighing in. […]

In a new interview with The New York Times about her novel The First Bad Man, Miranda July revealed that in the week of her life, Garfield is the Mondays. Asked about the worst book she’s ever read, July told the NYT that she is a lifelong Garfield hater who has despised the cartoon cat far longer than the poseurs […]

Russell Brand is always larger than life, but this year at South By Southwest it will be literally true rather than just the result of his voice, hair, and general demeanor. Variety reports that Ondi Timoner’s new documentary about the British multi-hyphenate has been selected to open the festival’s film section on March 13. Brand: A Second Coming promises to […]