Hawaii Five-0 vet Chi McBride is headed back to the Eye network, with a role opposite Pete Holmes in an untitled CBS comedy pilot, our sister site Deadline reports. In the project, based on professional bowler Tom Smallwood’s life, a seemingly ordinary man named Tom (Holmes) decides to provide for his family by following his dream […]
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Righteous Gemstones: Danny McBride, John Goodman and Adam Devine Are Ready to Raise Hell — 2019 FIRST LOOK
Heaven help us, Danny McBride has found religion. The Eastbound & Down and Vice Principals vet returns to HBO in 2019 with the godly satire The Righteous Gemstones — and we have your first look at his fiendish new TV family. The half-hour comedy, created by and starring McBride, centers on the Gemstones, a world famous televangelist family that consists […]
Humbled by nationals, Brandon McBride bounces back with 800m gold at NACAC
TORONTO — Brandon McBride always reminds himself that anyone can lose on any given day. It keeps the Canadian middle-distance runner grounded and focused on the hard work needed to reach the sport's pinnacle. The Windsor, Ont., native experienced that firsthand when he was upset by Edmonton's Marco Arop at last month's Canadian championships — […]
Cassidy Freeman Joins Cast of HBO's Danny McBride Televangelist Comedy
The Gemstone family keeps growing: Smallville alum Cassidy Freeman has joined the cast of Danny McBride’s HBO comedy pilot The Righteous Gemstones, TVLine has learned. Gemstones stars McBride as Jesse, the eldest son in a famous family of televangelists; John Goodman co-stars as the Gemstone family’s patriarch. Freeman will play Jesse’s wife Amber Gemstone, who gave […]
‘The Righteous Gemstones’ Makes Danny McBride and John Goodman Televangelists at HBO
Danny McBride has enjoyed plenty of success at HBO as the rough around the edges baseball player Kenny Powers in Eastbound and Down and the bitter, aggressive high school administrator Neal Gamby in Vice Principals. Now the cable network is taking the comedy star into the world of televangelism. HBO has ordered a pilot for […]
Danny McBride, John Goodman to Star in HBO Televangelist Comedy Pilot
This casting is just heavenly: Danny McBride and John Goodman are set to play a televangelist son and father in the HBO comedy pilot The Righteous Gemstones, TVLine has learned. McBride will star as Jesse Gemstone, the eldest son and “heir to the throne” of a world-famous televangelist family “with a long tradition of deviance, […]
‘Arizona’ Review: Danny McBride is an Unhinged Serial Killer [Sundance]
Jonathan Watson, the longtime assistant director on films as varied as Bad Boys and The Truman Show, makes his directorial debut with Arizona, a thriller set in the midst of the late 2000s economic housing crisis that stars Rosemarie DeWitt as a single mom realtor on the run from a deranged homeowner played by Danny McBride. […]
‘Dundee’ Trailer: Did Danny McBride Make a ‘Crocodile Dundee’ Sequel?
Alright, I’m going to need an explanation here. A trailer has arrived, seemingly out of nowhere, advertising a new Crocodile Dundee sequel featuring Danny McBride as the son of the famous outback hunter. Is this real? Is this a joke? I really don’t know. The world doesn’t make any sense anymore. Keep reading for more info on […]
Hawaii Five-0's Chi McBride Previews a Seriously 'Personal' Episode… Then Shares a Funny Tale of Two TV Wives
CBS’ Hawaii Five-0 this Friday at 9/8c casts new light on a dark corner of Lou Grover’s past, when an uxoricide suspect is found crashed at an intersection, with gun in hand and poised to end his own life. Happening upon the scene with son Will in tow, Grover takes control of the delicate situation. […]
Danny McBride Talks the New ‘Halloween,’ Hopes it Won’t Piss You Off
Danny McBride co-writing a new Halloween movie with Superbad director David Gordon Green sounds like a joke, but the Vice Principals star is taking this thing very seriously. In a new interview, McBride spoke about making the series scary again, getting Jamie Lee Curtis to return, and trying to honor a series beloved by so […]