A little divine intervention has come to Thursday’s news cycle, courtesy of the trailer for HBO’s religion-centric comedy The Righteous Gemstones. Created by and starring Danny McBride (Eastbound & Down, Vice Principals), the half-hour satire centers on the Gemstones, a world-famous televangelist family led by patriarch Eli (The Conners‘ John Goodman). McBride, Adam Devine (Workaholics) […]
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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 […]
Adam Devine Joins Danny McBride's Righteous New HBO Comedy Pilot
Call it Devine intervention: Adam Devine (Workaholics, Modern Family) has joined the cast of’s HBO’s religiously-tinged comedy pilot Righteous Gemstones, which hails from Eastbound & Down/Vice Principals auteur Danny McBride. In the potential series, McBride stars as Jesse Gemstone, the eldest son and “heir to the throne” of a world-famous televangelist family “with a long tradition of deviance, greed, […]
Vice Principals Reunion: Edi Patterson to Co-Star in Danny McBride's New HBO Comedy The Righteous Gemstones
Bedazzling news: One of Vice Principals‘ hidden jewels will be among Danny McBride‘s Righteous Gemstones. McBride has tapped his gloriously daft former co-star (and TVLine Dream Emmy nominee) Edi Patterson to join him in his latest HBO comedy endeavor, TVLine has learned exclusively. In Righteous Gemstones, McBride stars as Jesse Gemstone, the eldest son and “heir to the throne” of a […]
‘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 […]
The strange and righteous history of the equals sign
Enlarge / This plaque honoring Robert Recorde is at the Tenby Museum in Wales. (credit: Tenby Museum) Robert Recorde was one of those people so extraordinarily ahead of his time that he seemed destined to come to a tragic end. In the 16th century, he made advances in economics, medicine, theology, and poetry. But his […]