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Survival of the Thickest has been renewed for a second season by Netflix. The comedy stars Michelle Buteau and is based on her book of essays Survival of the Thickest. Buteau announced the pickup on NBC’s Today this morning. Buteau also announced she will be debuting her second comedy special…

EXCLUSIVE: Neon has landed U.S. rights to Babes, a comedy that was privately screened outside of the official festival roster at Toronto. After that screening, five distributors chased it before Tom Quinn’s Neon won it. Pamela Adlon, the Emmy winner behind Better Things, made her feature directorial…

Comedian Michelle Buteau will host the 75th annual Writers Guild Awards at New York's Edison Ballroom on March 5. Buteau, the creator, writer and star of the upcoming Netflix series Survival of the Thickest, is also the host of The Circle, a Netflix reality competition show. Her one-hour comedy…

EXCLUSIVE: Garcelle Beauvais (Spider-Man: Homecoming), Anissa Felix (FBI), Peppermint (Pose), Taylor Selé (P-Valley), and Marouane Zotti (I May Destroy You) have joined the cast of the Netflix comedy series Survival of the Thickest starring Michelle Buteau. Beauvais will play Natasha; Felix will play…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix's Michelle Buteau comedy series Survival of the Thickest is adding to its team. Tone Bell, who starred in Netflix's multi-cam comedy Disjointed, is to star alongside Buteau in the series with Tasha Smith, who starred in Tyler Perry's OWN series For Better or Worse and has appeared in Empire…

EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Buteau is set to star in a comedy series for Netflix based on her book of essays Survival of the Thickest. The comedian, who hosts the streamer's reality series The Circle and starred in feature film Always Be My Maybe, created the series with Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, showrunner of NBC’s The Carmich…

Megan Mullally (Will & Grace), Tyler Alvarez (Never Have I Ever), Michelle Buteau (First Wives Club), Aasif Mandvi (Evil), Teala Dunn (All Night) and Isabella Ferreira (Love, Victor) will round out the cast of the untitled coming-of-age romance pic starring Rowan Blanchard and Auli'i Cravalho, which Sammi Cohen is…

Netflix is expanding its circle of influence next month. The streamer said today that its popular competition series The Circle will return for a four-part Season 3 on September 8. New episodes will go live on ensuing Wednesdays through the September 29 finale. Critics Choice Award winner Michelle Buteau returns as…

EXCLUSIVE: Star Trek's Zachary Quinto, Pretty Little Liars' Ashley Benson and The Circle host Michelle Buteau are to star in a scripted podcast series for Amazon's Audible. The trio will voice characters in Sorry Charlie Miller, a series that also features Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford, The Office's Brian Baumgartner, M…

If you go anywhere this week for a getaway from all the madness, then might I suggest the wonderful world of Buteau pia? It’s a land of laughs, joy, a little shade, stories about working with the iconic J. Lo  — all overlooked by Buteaupian queen Michelle Buteau. Of course, we are referring to the comedian and actress…

EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Buteau is about to get unfiltered and real on your mobile device. The stand-up comedian and First Wives Club actress is going to spill all the tea when it comes to parenting on the forthcoming Quibi series No Pulling Out Now. Keeping with Buteau’s signature tell-it-like-it-is comedy, the new series…

Jordan Fisher (To All the Boys 2, Rent: Live!), Drew Ray Tanner (Riverdale) and Michelle Buteau (Always Be My Maybe, First Wives Club) are lacing up their dance shoes for the Netflix original movie Work It, which is set to begin filming this week in Toronto. Sabrina Carpenter leads the ensemble cast that includes…