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Free Agents
Baseball’s Very Tepid Offseason Is Finally Over Why was there so much less free-agent activity this year? Moneyball.
By Will Leitch
Star Bartender Eben Freeman Will Leave AvroKO The mixology star, who made his name at wd~50 and Tailor, says he’s now debating his next move.
By Richard Morgan
NFL Free Agent Raheem Brock Not Guilty of Stiffing South Street’s Copa The charges prevented Brock from renewing his contract with the Seahawks.
By Collin Keefe
Bent and the Problem With Romantic Comedy TV Shows The pilot of Bent premiered last night on NBC, and it gave me a teeny-tiny wave of deja vu that carried me back to watching another solidly […]
By Hallie Cantor
What Fans of Abruptly Canceled Shows Talk About I “Like” a lot of shows on Facebook. Why? I could say it’s because I like having my Feed updated with news reports and interesting links about […]
By Joshua Kurp
free agents
Jan. 20, 2012
By Eliot Glazer
Eight Episodes of the Dearly Departed Free Agents Are Available on Hulu There are eight episodes of Free Agents on Hulu right now, including four that weren’t aired on TV before the show’s cancellation. Fans of Joe […]
By Hallie Cantor
casting couch
Nov. 28, 2011
By Margaret Lyons
Is the 2011-2012 Sitcom Schedule the Worst in a Decade? Every year in the fall, and then again in the middle of winter, we get our hopes up for some of the new network sitcoms that are set to […]
By Joshua Kurp
With the TV Season Well Under Way, What Went Wrong for NBC? ’Up All Night’ is about its only hit. But unlike the Zucker years, they’re not panicking.
By Josef Adalian
Free Agents Is Dead in the Water Bad news for new NBC sitcom Free Agents: it didn’t get the significant boost in the ratings it needed last night, so its prospects are looking […]
By Adam Frucci
Modern Family Premiere Turns Out Monster Ratings ABC’s Modern Family killed it in the ratings for its hourlong premiere last night. Granted, it was up against Harry’s Law and America’s Next […]
By Hallie Cantor
Free Agents Recap: ‘Pilot’ First things first: the protagonists of Free Agents, Alex (Hank Azaria) and Helen (Kathryn Hahn), two PR agents newly single after long-term […]
By Hallie Cantor
Hank Azaria’s Free Agent Character Is Frank Grimes Hank Azaria stars in Free Agents this fall using his body meat for a change, but his protagonist Alex remains sadly reminiscent of a particular […]
By Halle Kiefer
Hank Azaria on Crying After Sex, Going Topless, and Playing a Simpsons Character on His New Show, Free Agents “All I know is that very often, Hollywood has asked me to be some version of the naked foreigner. Naked and accented seems to be the image they expect me to assume.”
By Steve Marsh
NBC Will Make Sure You See the Premieres of its New Comedies, Dammit Interested in seeing the new NBC sitcoms Up All Night, Whitney and Free Agents? Well, the network is going to make it either easier for you to […]
By Adam Frucci
Original British Version of Free Agents to Air on BBC America Free Agents, the upcoming NBC sitcom starring Hank Azaria, is a remake of a British show of the same name. If you want to compare the original […]
By Adam Frucci
NBC’s Fall Premiere Schedule Unveiled Mark your calendars: NBC’s comedy lineup is coming back in mid-September. Up All Night and Free Agents premiere on Wednesday, September 14th at […]
By Adam Frucci
upfronts 2011
May 17, 2011
By Margaret Lyons
The New Comedies You’re Going to Be Watching (or Angrily Turning Off) on […] The NBC fall comedy lineup is out, and the only thing that’s going to make you truly wig out 30 Rock’s midseason start. However, considering […]
By Halle Kiefer
The Full Rundown on NBC’s Six New Sitcoms NBC is set to pick up a whopping six new comedies for next season, virtually guaranteeing that there will be a second comedy night on the […]
By Adam Frucci
NBC Picks Up Four New Comedies Hank Azaria, Amanda Peet, and Laura Prepon all have new shows.
By Margaret Lyons
NBC to Double its Comedy Programming This Fall With a Boatload of New […] This will all be official come Sunday, but until then, it’s hearsay aplenty. Variety is reporting that NBC is giving the greenlight to at least […]
By Adam Frucci
the industry
Mar. 24, 2011
By Amos Barshad
Hank Azaria Starring in Free Agents Pilot for NBC Hank Azaria has signed on to star in an NBC pilot called Free Agents. “The project, based on the UK series of the same name, explores the […]
By Adam Frucci
the sports section
Nov. 19, 2008
Leitch: The Unfortunate Legacy of Pedro Martinez Pedro no longer has any symbolic value to the Mets. But did he ever?
By Will Leitch
